Rule of Thumb: Mechanical Criteria (BG 85/2024)

This guide partly replaces BG 9/2011 Rules of Thumb 5th Edition. It provides updated information on heating, cooling, ventilation and public health systems.

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Overview

This guide provides useful information for the early stages of design of heating, cooling, ventilation and public health systems. This includes heat system temperatures, water consumption and airtightness criteria.

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This guide partly replaces BG 9/2011 Rules of Thumb 5th Edition. Information has been updated based on consultation with designers and manufacturers, and new information has been added, including on residential sprinklers.

Three further guides have been published providing reference information, definitions and data for use at early stages of design:

BSRIA would be very pleased to receive feedback on this guide – what’s missing, what can be improved in the information and its presentation, and what else BSRIA can do to make buildings better. Please email any comments and suggestions to information@bsria.co.uk.


Mechanical Building Services - The Fundamentals

Mechanical building services account for around 30% of the capital and 50% of the operating cost for a typical office, and substantially more in highly serviced buildings such as hospitals. They play a central role in creating a successful project and a successful building and are certainly the first thing noticed when not working well.

This course will give all involved in the construction process a broad appreciation of mechanical building services and the role they play.

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Product details

  • Published: February 2024
  • Publisher: BSRIA
  • Author: Chin Hang “Kay” Lam
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-86022-807-3