Description

This third edition of CIBSE's best-selling Concise Handbook provides members with an up-to-date source of reference to help them to locate fundamental information quickly, and find out where the comprehensive information is located in the full CIBSE Guides.

This Handbook, which includes selected information from the 2007 edition of Guide C and the 2008 Guide M, has been produced to help members to give quick responses to enquiries and to provide easy access to the detailed information available in other CIBSE publications. In only a fraction of the space taken up by the full CIBSE Guides, the Concise Handbook offers a quick snapshot of the salient information - enabling you to understand the main issues and to do some outline calculations prior to producing a fully worked-out plan.

The Concise Handbook will be of value both to practicing building services engineers and to those who have recently entered the building services field. Based on the CIBSE Student Data Book, the Concise Handbook provides a summary of key areas, including the more commonly used information and tables. The information it contains is fully revised and is consistent with the information in the most recently updated Guides.

It should be emphasised that this publication cannot and does not replace the full Guides, but is intended to be a ready point of reference. The full Guides will always remain as the most detailed information source.

We very much hope that you will find this publication, and those that follow it, useful for giving you a head start in preparing quick general answers to questions raised by the construction team at the start of projects and to point you in the direction of the detailed guidance when you need it.

Contents

Introduction

Guide A: Environmental design

A1          Environmental criteria for design
A2          External design data
A3          Thermal properties of building structures
A4          Air infiltration and natural ventilation
A5          Thermal response and plant sizing
A6          Internal heat gains
A7          Moisture transfer and condensation
Guide A: abridgements and omissions

Guide B: Heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration

B1          Heating
B2          Ventilation and air conditioning
B3          Ductwork
B4          Refrigeration and heat rejection
B5          Noise and vibration control for hvac
Guide B: abridgements and omissions
Guide B (1986): Installation and equipment data
B18        Owning and operating costs                105

Guide M: Maintenance engineering and management

Appendix M13.A1: Indicative life expectancy factors

Guide C: Reference data

C1          Properties of humid air
C2          Properties of water and steam
C3          Heat transfer
C4          Fluid flow in pipes and ducts
C5          Fuels and combustion
C6          Units, standard and mathematical data
Guide C: abridgements and omissions

Guide F: Energy efficiency in buildings 

F5           Renewables, fuels, chp and metering
F7       Ventilation and air conditioning