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Corrections and Amendments

CIBSE occasionally produces correction sheets (known as corrigenda) and other amendments/updates to Institution publications. These can be downloaded from this page as pdf files.

Guide A: Environmental Design (2007)

Guide B1: Heating (2002)
Tables 6.2 (page 6-2) click here and 6.3 (page 6-4) click here have been amended. Copies of the tables in the form of self-adhesive labels are also available on request. Please e-mail Ken Butcher, Editorial Manager.

Guide C: Reference Data (2007)
Page 4-17: Table 4.19: caption should read "... and pressure of 101.325 kPa"
Page 4-58: caption to Table 4.125 should read: '90° swept tees, rectangular, diverging flow: values for ...'
Page 4-63: Table 4.A1.1: units for kinematic viscosity (n) should be 10^-6 m²·s^-1Page 3-29: equation 3.118 should read: F / l = p d_op U (q_s - q_e) (3.118)

CIBSE Guide E: Fire engineering (2003)
Page 2-4, section 2.2.5: Exemption for educational buildings This section incorrectly states that the Building Regulations do not apply to educational buildings. Whilst exemption was the case in the past educational buildings are no longer exempted from the Building Regulations.

CIBSE Guide F: Energy efficiency in buildings (2004)
Page 5-10: Table 5.5: column 2, column heading should read 'Density at 15 °C / kg·m-3'; units for gross calorific value and net calorific value should be megajoules per kilogram (MJ·kg-1), not megajoules per cubic metre (MJ·m-3); the corrected table is available from CIBSE as a self-adhesive label (by emailing Ken Butcher, or may be downloaded as a PDF here (470KB). Page 7-11: Table 7.7: Table caption should read 'Air handling benchmarks for conditioned offices'. Page 10-7, section 10.2: British Standard referred to in the second bullet point should read BS 5422, not BS 5442.

Guide K: Electricity in buildings (2004)
Click here to download corrections (70KB pdf file)

TM39: Building Energy Metering
Page 15, section 9.2: the paragraph: 'Where sub-metering...approved by OFGEM' should be deleted.

AM10: Natural ventilation in non-domestic buildings
Page 2, section 1.2.3, paragraph 3: 'Because implicit ...' should read: 'Because explicit …'
Page 40: section number 4.1.2.3 should read: 4.2.1.3.
Page 40: section number 4.1.2.4 should read 4.2.1.4.
Page 47, right hand column, 3rd line from bottom: '1.851' should read: '1.185'.
Page 49, right hand column, 10th line from top: '1.851' should read: '-0.405

TM26:Hygenic maintenance of office ventilation ductwork
Page 12, section 9.5, final paragraph: final sentence should read: "The laboratory will return the count for each plate and the equivalent count per 10cm2 (for a 55 mm contact plate the conversion factor is the count multiplied by 0.42)."
(Error reported: 16/06/10)

TM50: Energy Efficiency in Commercial Kitchens
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