Rules of thumb : guidelines for assessing building services (3rd ed.)

Written for engineers in the initial stages of designing a building and its services, this title gathers many of the most common rules of thumb into one document to provide a useful source of initial design data.

All the data has been derived from a wide variety of authoritative sources and all the figures quoted have been assessed by a panel of experienced, practising services engineers.The book presents the rules of thumb under the headings - space and weight allowances, equipment and solar loads, comfort factors, system features, energy and carbon issues, electrical systems, and cost data.