Heating and Water Services Design in Buildings
Welcome to the discipline of building services engineering. You will find that it
extends beyond the confines of this text, which concentrates on some of the ‘wet
services’ within the building envelope. Part of Chapter 1, however, looks at the
building and the way it behaves when it is intermittently heated, as it is important
for you to select the plant and design the system that will best suit the building
and its use. It is assumed that you have some knowledge of building services.
Where necessary you are directed to current manufacturers’ literature so that the
text can take on a fuller meaning. It is strongly...