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- - Statutory Compliance Inspection Checklist (BG80/2023)
  - by David Bleicher (May 2023)
  - This guide supersedes BG 80/2022 Statutory Compliance Inspection Checklist. It lists all the tests, checks and inspections that are required on building services systems required by legislation, Approved Codes of Practice and/or supporting guidance. In addition to the spreadsheet, the guide includes general information about legislation in the UK and guidance on how to use the spreadsheet.
- - Refurbishment for net Zero (WP 15/2023)
  - by Aaron Gillich & BSRIA (April 2023)
  - This BSRIA White paper summarises the guidance industry professionals delivered during the summer 2022 BSRIA Conference.
- - BSRIA Blue Book 2023 (BBB)
  - by BSRIA (March 2023)
  - BSRIA's annual databook for 2023 is small, concise, and continues to provide you with hard-to-find facts about Building Services. It contains tables of useful technical data, annual building running costs, legislation and more.
- - Thermal Comfort (TG 22/2023)
  - by Calum Maclean & David Bleicher (February 2023)
  - This topic guide gives a general overview of the topic of thermal comfort for a general construction industry audience, including clients, architects and project managers. It includes information about legislation, factors affecting thermal comfort, measurement of thermal comfort and sources of further information.
- - Pressurisation of Closed Heating and Cooling Systems (BG 82/2022)
  - by Rob Clemson (November 2022)
  - The maintenance of acceptable pressures whilst accommodating thermal expansion is one of the key factors in ensuring continuous and correct functioning of heating and cooling in buildings. This guide explains the principles of pressurisation, the different types of equipment used, and the calculation procedures following both British and European standards.
- - Net Zero Carbon Buildings (NZG 1/2022)
  - by Aaron Gillich (October 2022)
  - This guide is published by the Net Zero Building Centre, a joint venture between BSRIA and London South Bank University. It defines the terminology of net zero and its implications for the built environment. It outlines the key issues in the design and performance of buildings.
- - Rethinking Sustainability in Facilities and Workplace Management
  - by Melissen F & Smit B (August 2022)
  - This book discusses sustainability within the facility management industry. However, it is not another anthology of so-called best practices and the seemingly endless range of certification schemes. It is also not a (marketing) guide on how to communicate high-pitched sustainability ambitions to potential customers to increase (short-term) market share.
- - Fire Safety Law: A Practical Guide for Leaseholders, Building-Owners and Conveyancers
  - by Ward V C (September 2022)
  - Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights.
- - Resilient Building Retrofits: Combating the climate crisis
  - by Sayce S & Wilkinson S (September 2022)
  - This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency. It is about the why, how and who should take the lead in revolutionising buildings in the face of serious climate and social change.
- - Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings
  - by Fu F (September 2022)
  - Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings provides structural engineers, architects, and students with a systematic introduction to fire safety design for tall buildings based on current analysis methods, design guidelines, and codes. It covers almost all aspects of fire safety design that an engineer or an architect might encounter—such as performance-based design and the basic principles of fire development and heat transfer.
- - Building Regulations Pocket Book (BRPB)
  - by Alford S & Tricker R (September 2022)
  - The second edition of the Building Regulations Pocket Book has been fully updated with recent changes to the UK Building Regulations and Planning Law, introduced in 2022. Key new updates to this include, but are not limited to: changes to the fire regulations as a result of the Hackitt Review, updates to Approved Document F and L, and new Approved Documents covering Part O and S.
- - 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.
- - Building Regulations in Brief (BRIB)
  - by Alford S & Tricker R (May 2022)
  - This tenth edition of the most popular and trusted guide reflects all the latest amendments to the Building Regulations, planning permission and the Approved Documents in England and Wales. Published in May 2022, it includes changes to the Approved Document B (as a result of the Hackitt Review), as well as the latest changes to Approved Documents F and L, and the new documents O (overheating) and S (electric vehicle charging points), which came into effect in June 2022
- - Soft Landings for Fit-Outs (BG81/2022)
  - by BSRIA, James Gall & Kieran Everett (June 2022)
  - This guide highlights the benefits and approach to adopting the Soft Landings framework in the context of fit-out projects. The methodologies can be encouraged by any member of the Soft Landings team and adopted by the fit-out project team.
- - Indoor Air Quality (TG 12/2022)
  - by Anmol Patel & Calum Maclean (June 2022)
  - Free to download - This topic guide replaces TG 12/2021. It gives a brief introduction to the topic of indoor air quality (IAQ). It describes the importance of indoor air quality, its effects on health, the most common contaminants, their exposure limits, how to measure them, the role of ventilation and the law.
- - Refrigerants in Building Services (TG 21/2022)
  - by Graeme Fox (April 2022)
  - Free to download - This guide provides an overview of refrigerants currently in use, their applications and legislation that affects their use, such as the F-gas regulations.
- - Illustrated Guide to Renewable Technologies 2nd edition (BG 34/2021)
  - by David Bleicher & Michelle Agha-Hossein (December 2021)
  - This guide is an effective and concise resource for people in the construction industry who need a broad understanding of renewables and their integration into buildings. This second edition complements the other BSRIA Illustrated Guides.
- - Water Treatment for Closed Heating and Cooling Systems (BG 50/2021)
  - by Dr Pamela Simpson (November 2021)
  - Water treatment is essential in closed heating and cooling systems for the avoidance of biofouling, corrosion and scale. This second edition supersedes BG 50/2013 Water Treatment for Closed Heating and Cooling Systems.
- - Life Safety and Firefighting Power Supplies (BG 70/2021)
  - by Tony Mayo (September 2021)
  - This guide provides information on designing power supplies to systems such as sprinkler pumps, smoke control systems and firefighting lifts. It draws together the requirements outlined in many product and application specific standards. This second edition takes into account changes to standards that have been made since the first edition (BG 70/2017 ) was published in 2017.
- - Artificial Intelligence in Buildings (WP 14/2021)
  - by Henry Lawson (June 2021)
  - This paper is concerned with the practical changes that artificial intelligence is already bringing to building services and what it is likely to make possible within the next few years.
- - Noise in the Built Environment (TG 20/2021)
  - by Rebecca Hogg (May 2021)
  - Free to download - This topic guide provides a broad overview of noise in the built environment and explains how noise is produced, how noise is measured, what impact noise has, and how noise can be controlled.
- - Intelligent Buildings: An Introduction (IBI)
  - by Clements-Croome D (March 2020)
  - This book introduces the concept of Intelligent Buildings to the wider construction community.
- - Pre-Commission Cleaning of Pipework Systems Amended 6th edition (BG29/2021)
  - by Martin Ronceray & Parsloe C (February 2021)
  - This amended sixth edition (BG 29/2021) takes into account feedback received from users of the sixth edition (BG 29/2020) since it was published in April 2020. Pre-commission cleaning is the process of bringing a closed heating or cooling system to a satisfactory state for commissioning and ongoing maintenance of water quality.
- - 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.

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