Design and management guides

- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Building Services Design set of three guides (BSD3)
  - by BSRIA (June 2018)
  - This set comprises three BSRIA guides for building services designers, covering reports, specifications, and allocation of responsibilities.
- - 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.
- - Soft Landings Set of 5 guides (SL5)
  - by BSRIA (September 2017)
  - BSRIA's set contains 2015 GSL guide, How to Procure Soft Landings, Soft Landings Framework, Soft Landings Core Principles and Pitstopping guides
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - BIM Guides set (BIM1)
  - by John Sands (March 2017)
  - This set comprises three BSRIA guides that help with understanding of BIM processes, covering classification, specifications and a roadmap for corporate BIM strategies.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Carbon and Cost Analysis Set (CC1)
  - by Churcher D, Jones C. - Editors Lowrie F. Tse P & Prof Hammond G (March 2016)
  - BSRIA's set of three guides covering carbon, cost and environmental analysis. Contains Life Cycle Costing (BG 67/2016), Life Cycle Assessment (BG 52/2013) and Embodied Carbon – the inventory of carbon and energy (BG 10/2011).
- - 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
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - BIM Roadmap (BG 60/2015)
  - by John Sands (May 2015)
  - This guide 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.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Safety in Building Services Design (Superseded) (BG 55/2014)
  - by Tudor R (August 2014)
  - This publication provides guidance on designing for safety for both new build and refurbishment projects. Designers must take considerable care to provide safe means of access for installation, maintenance and equipment replacement.

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