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Rule of Thumb: Mechanical Criteria (BG 85/2024)
by Chin Hang “Kay” Lam (February 2024)
This guide partly replaces BG 9/2011 Rules of Thumb 5th Edition. It provides updated information on heating, cooling, ventilation and public health systems.
Digital download
£99.00
Rule of Thumb: Electrical Criteria (BG 86/2024)
by Chin Hang “Kay” Lam (February 2024)
This guide partly replaces BG 9/2011 Rules of Thumb 5th Edition. It provides updated information on electrical building services systems.
Digital download
£99.00
Rule of Thumb: Useful Information Guide (BG 87/2024)
by Chin Hang “Kay” Lam (February 2024)
This guide partly replaces BG 9/2011 Rules of Thumb 5th Edition. It provides updated reference information on a variety of topics relating to building services.
Digital download
£99.00
Domestic Ventilation Systems - a guide to measuring airflow rates (BG 46/2022)
by Alan Gilbert & Chris Knights (September 2022)
This guide provides a detailed procedure for testing domestic ventilation systems. It has been updated to reflect the revised guidance for Part F of the Building Regulations, which came into effect in England and Wales in 2022.
Digital download
£99.00
Project Information Process (BG 78/2021)
by John Sands & Nick Blake (February 2021)
In a construction project, it is essential that the correct information is provided at the right time. This guide describes the process of identifying the client’s information needs and disseminating these to the project team.
Digital download
£99.00
Soft Landings and Design for Performance (BG 76/2019)
by Robert Cohen & Sarah Ratcliffe (May 2019)
This guide, published jointly with the Better Building Partnership, explains how Soft Landings and Design for Performance can work together to embed a focus on performance outcomes in new build and major refurbishment projects.
Digital download
FREE
Design Framework for Building Services 5th Edition (BG 6/2018)
by David Churcher, John Sands & Martin Ronceray (June 2018)
This guide helps building services consultants and contractors and their clients, clarify and define the extent of their design activity and deliverables. The 5th edition represent a significant update from the previous edition.
Digital download
£299.00
Multi-site licence
£750.00
Building Services Reports (BG 71/2017)
by Richard Tudor (May 2017)
The aim of this guide is to serve as good practice and to provide guidance in promoting consistency in the industry through common report definition and standard report frameworks.
Digital download
£99.00
Life Safety and Firefighting Power Supplies (Superseded) (BG 70/2017)
by Tony Mayo (March 2017)
This guide has been superseded by BG 70/2021 Life Safety and Firefighting Power Supplies 2nd edition.
Digital download
£299.00
Classification – An introduction (BG 68/2017)
by John Sands (February 2017)
This guide covers the basics of the important topic of classification, with particular reference to building services.
Digital download
£99.00
Building Performance Evaluation in Domestic Buildings (BG 64/2016)
by BSRIA (November 2016)
This guide explains how to use Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) to address issues of inefficiency and poor comfort in domestic buildings. It is a general introduction to BPE, and explains why it is important and how it can be carried out.
Digital download
£99.00
Model Format for Building Services Specifications (BG 56/2016)
by John Sands (March 2016)
This guide, a joint venture with CIBSE and BESA, provides a model format for building services specifications. This will aid efficiency and understanding for all parties involved in preparing and using specifications.
Digital download
£99.00
Life Cycle Costing (BG 67/2016)
by David Churcher & Peter Tse (March 2016)
This guide replaces BG5/2008, Whole Life Costing and presents a simple process for the calculation of life cycle costs. Life cycle costing complements the move towards use of information models to improve asset and project management.
Digital download
£99.00
Heat Interface Units (BG 62/2015)
by Reginald Brown (December 2015)
Covers the application and installation of both direct and indirect heat interface units for residential and small commercial applications within district or commercial heat networks
Digital download
£99.00
Soft Landings and Government Soft Landings (BG 61/2015)
by Ashley Bateson (August 2015)
This briefing note provides an overview of the Government Soft Landings (GSL) policy and a comparison with the BSRIA Soft Landings Framework.
Digital download
£99.00
Building Performance Evaluation in Non-Domestic Buildings (BG 63/2015)
by Michelle Agha-Hossein, Sarah Birchall & Saryu Vatal (August 2015)
This guide explains how to use Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) to address issues of inefficiency and user dissatisfaction. It is a general introduction to BPE, and explains why it is important and how it can be carried out.
Digital download
£99.00
BIM Roadmap (BG 60/2015)
by John Sands (May 2015)
BG 60/2015 BIM Roadmap will help an organisation to chart or map their corporate BIM strategy (which meets the Level 2 requirement by UK Government) via a number of clear steps. It will put all the concepts such as PAS 1192-2 into a common framework to demonstrate how they relate to each other.
Digital download
£99.00
Domestic Ventilation Systems - a guide to measuring airflow rates (Superseded) (BG 46/2015)
by Alan Gilbert & Chris Knights (January 2015)
This guide has been superseded by BG 46/2022 Domestic Ventilation Systems - A guide to measuring airflow rates. With improvements in dwelling airtightness and increased use of Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery Systems (MVHR), getting ventilation right in buildings has become critical. This BSRIA guide will address these issues.
Digital download
£99.00
Life Cycle Assessment - an assessment of a building services system (BG 59/2014)
by David Churcher (November 2014)
This guide supplements BG 52/2013 Life Cycle Assessment - an introduction to explain in more details how Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is applied to an entire HVAC building system.
Digital download
£99.00
Selection of Control Valves in Variable Flow Systems (BG 51/2014)
by Chris Parsloe (June 2014)
This guide has been produced to help designers avoid problems with the selection and application of control valves used in hydronic systems. BTS 1/2019 Test Method for PICVs and DPCVs.
Digital download
£99.00
How to procure Soft Landings 2nd edition (BG 45/2014)
by Roderic Bunn (March 2014)
This guide is written primarily to help public and private sector clients and main contractors procure Soft Landings services from their construction supply chains. The requirements have been developed by BSRIA with industry input by members of the BSRIA Soft Landings Network.
Digital download
£99.00
Life Cycle Assessment - an introduction (BG 52/2013)
by David Churcher (November 2013)
Life Cycle Assessment is amethodology for compiling and evaluating the environmental impacts and the primary energy demand of a product system throughout its life cycle. The systems can be applied to a product or process, assemblies, HVAC systems or whole buildings.
Digital download
£99.00
A Practical Guide to Building Thermal Modelling (BG 48/2013)
by Richard Tudor (August 2013)
A Practical Guide to Building Thermal Modelling provides advice on the delivery of thermal modelling and focuses on dynamic and compliance thermal modelling. Project teams are increasingly being asked to commit to future energy use and thermal modelling is used in order to accurately predict future
Digital download
£99.00
Designing and Constructing for Airtightness (BG 47/2013)
by Ben Cheeseman (May 2013)
BSRIA guide provides architects, main contractors and subcontractors with a broad base knowledge of how to design and building buildings to achieve their airtightness targets.
Digital download
£99.00
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