Guide B3: Air conditioning and refrigeration is available in PDF format only.
Guide B3 describes requirements and provides guidance on system selection with respect to generic building systems, and relates primarily to office air conditioning systems. Guidance on specific requirements for other building types is provided in CIBSE Guide B0: Applications.
Guide B provides guidance on the practical design of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and is divided into six sections which are published separately:
B0: Applications and activities
B3: Air conditioning and refrigeration
B4: Noise and vibration control for building services systems
The full set is available at a discounted price here: Guide B (full set)
Topics covered include:
- Air conditioning and refrigeration
- Energy efficiency and minimising carbon emissions
- Whole-life cost
- Establishing key performance requirements
- Cooling loads
- Air conditioning
- Strategies
- Systems
- Equipment
- Refrigeration
- Design criteria
- System types
- Heat rejection and cooling-water equipment
- Heat pumps
- Components
- Controls
- Commissioning, operation and energy management
- Appendices
- Techniques for assessment of ventilation
- Psychrometric processes
- Summary data for refrigerants
- Pressure–enthalpy charts for refrigerants
Acknowledgements
Guide B3 Steering Committee: Guy Hundy (Chair), Nigel Armitag, Bill Coates, Robin Curtis, Alan Green, Paul Griffiths, Hugh Jenkinson, Shakil Mughal, Alan Treacy, Peter Warren
Referees: David Butler, Tim Dwyer, John Missenden, Terry Welch