Overview
Written to help engineers in the initial stages of designing a building and its services by gathering many of the most common rules of thumb into one document to provide a powerful source of initial design data. States the data have been derived from a wide variety of authoritative sources. All the figures quoted have been assessed by a panel of experienced, practising services engineers. 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, Cost data, References