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Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Volume 4 of 4 - Equipment Cooling
Includes Direct Expansion Systems, Absorption Systems, Centrifugal Systems, Water Treatment, Centrifugal Water Pumps, Fundamentals of Electronic Controls, and Electronic Control Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Volume 4 of 4 - Equipment CoolingThis course is the fourth volume of four volumes devoted to instruction in refrigeration and air conditioning.The scope of this course takes in unit components of the absorption system, including their functions and maintenance; water...
by Ronald Carl Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
"...my message to lecturers in building/quantity surveying is to 'put it on your course list for essential reading' and to students and practitioners 'buy it' " Building Technology & Management
Provides a practical introduction to understanding the costs encountered on a building project together with an appreciation of the many factors influencing them.
by Steve Muscroft
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Students setting out for a career in plumbing need a clear, concise and comprehensive textbook to help them study for their Technical Certificate and Level 2 NVQ – and this book meets all those needs.
Steve Muscroft expertly guides you through each of the key areas and processes in plumbing,...
by Andrew Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
This is a practical guide showing how to undertake a domestic building survey. The text describes the practical aspects of surveying with a full description of the author's own experience, at the same time drawing out the important principles involved.
Regenerative and Positive Impact Architecture
Learning from Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects. It compares four state-of-the-art buildings to examine the steps needed for a transition from negative impact reduction architecture to positive impact regenerative architecture, utilizing...
People and Environment
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Green Building Handbook: Volume 1
A Guide to Building Products and their Impact on the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Environmentally responsible building involves resolving many conflicting issues and requirements. Each stage in the design process from the fundamental decisions about what, where and even whether to build has implications for the environment.
Evolving out of the success of Green Building Digest,...
Housing and Home Unbound
Intersections in economics, environment and politics in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds. Cutting across disciplines, the book opens up the conceptual and empirical study of housing...
World Savannas
Ecology and Human Use
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
An interdisciplinary text on the world's savannas, covering the geography, ecology, economics and politics of savanna regions. Savannas are a distinct vegetation type, covering a third of the world's land surface area and supporting a fifth of the world's population. There has been a wide range of...
by Roham Afghani Khoraskani
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book presents the findings of a detailed study to explore the behavior of architectural glazing systems during and after an earthquake and to develop design proposals that will mitigate or even eliminate the damage inflicted on these systems. The seismic behavior of common types of architectural...
Building Refurbishment for Energy Performance
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In Europe, the building sector accounts for 40% of energy consumption which has a strong influence on greenhouse gas emissions. The book deals with efficient methodologies aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector. This includes analyses of the building envelopes, the heating...
Optimum Cooling of Data Centers
Application of Risk Assessment and Mitigation Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book describes the use of free air cooling to improve the efficiency of, and cooling of, equipment for use in telecom infrastructures. Discussed at length is the cooling of communication installation rooms such as data centers or base stations, and this is intended as a valuable tool for the...
by Roger L Brockenbrough, Frederick S. Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
A Complete and Current Guide to Structural Steel Design
Fully updated with the most recent design codes, standards, and specifications, Structural Steel Designer's Handbook, Fifth Edition, provides a convenient, single source of the latest information essential to the practical design of steel structures.
This...
by Arthur C. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
"How to Keep Bees" is a detailed and accessible guide to bee-keeping and apiary management, with information on starting out, constructing an apiary, acquiring bees, and much more. Written in simple, plain language and profusely illustrated, this comprehensive handbook constitutes a must-have for...