Building Services

This book provides a complete introduction to plumbing services. It explains the principles and provides practical examples of planning, design, installation and maintenance of the plumbing technologies applicable to single-storey buildings, skyscrapers and everything in between.

The easy-to-understand "rocket science" you need to design durable, healthy, comfortable high-performance houses

A guide for planning and design using active design principles and passive means to satisfy human comfort requirements specifically in hot climate zones. It demonstrates how a design strategy for urban environments and individual buildings can create a location, form and structure that promote significant energy-savings.

This book suits students taking the City and Guilds 2365 Diploma in line with the 18th Edition of the IET Regulations, i.e. the first year course of an electrical installation apprenticeship. It gives answers to all of the 2365 syllabus learning outcomes, and one chapter is dedicated to each unit of the five units in the City and Guilds course.

Basics Building Technology covers the fields of water supply and disposal, electric installations and energy-related subjects, i.e. The compendium combines the successful volumes Room Conditioning and Water Cycles and supplements these with the two hitherto unpublished volumes Electric Installation and Lighting Design.

This timely study deals with the heating and cooling of buildings using innovative systems that can reduce fossil fuel and electric energy requirements by as much as 80 percent. It also deals with promises and problems of solar energy use for efficient comfort conditioning.