Building Services

New edition of the best-selling Heinemann textbook, with a user-friendly style, accessible language and an approachable layout, now fully updated to match the 2010 specification.

Lay the foundation for a career as a bricklayer. Published in association with City & Guilds and suitable for the 6705 Diploma, as well as other Level 1 Bricklaying qualifications, this highly illustrated and accessible book covers the principles of construction, setting out, block walls, brick walls, cavity walls, and health and safety.

Carve out a career as a carpenter or joiner. Published in association with City & Guilds and suitable for the 6706 Diploma, as well as other Level 1 qualifications, this highly illustrated and accessible book will introduce the principles of construction, how to use hand and power tools, woodworking joints, and health and safety.

Revised edition of: Heating and cooling of buildings: design for efficiency / Jan F. Kreider, Peter S. Curtiss, Ari Rabl. c2010.

Architects, designers, builders, and contractors must all work together to plan the mechanical and electrical equipment that controls the indoor environment of a building. Building Control Systems is the one guide that helps everyone better use the design and construction strategies that make safe, energy-efficient buildings.

The second volume of a three part work which describes in detail the 'adaptive' approach to thermal comfort. Concentrating on the theoretical aspects of thermal comfort and presenting the latest work in the field, the book also suggests ways in which new models can be developed.

'Lighting Engineering: Applied Calculations' describes the mathematical background to the calculation techniques used in lighting engineering and links them to the applications with which they are used. The fundamentals of flux and illuminance, colour, measurement and optical design are covered in detail. There are detailed discussions of specific

Building Services Engineering focuses on how the design-construction interface and how the design intent is handled through the construction stage to handover and in the short term thereafter. Part One sets the scene by describing the stakeholders involved in the construction stage and the project management context.

This covers all aspects of the traffic design and control of vertical transportation systems in buildings, making it an essential reference for vertical transportation engineers and other members of the design team. A unique and well-established book, this much needed new edition features extensive updates to technology and practice, drawing on the latest international research.