The Fairmont Press Inc imprint: 18 books

Newly revised and edited, this seventh edition includes extensive revisions to seven of its twenty-eight chapters, including those covering waste heat recovery, HVAC systems, energy management and control systems, energy systems maintenance, alternative energy, indoor air quality, and codes, standards...

Now in its fully updated tenth edition, this comprehensive, best selling handbook covers management and engineering strategies which can be utilized to slash energy costs by as much as 40% in industrial facilities. New chapters have been added which cover evaluating the economics of solar applications,...

Now in its fully updated ninth edition, this comprehensive, best selling handbook covers both management and engineering strategies which can be utilized to slash energy costs by as much as 40% in industrial facilities. Many of the existing chapters have been revised to reflect the latest advances, and...

The goal of this book is to provide an energy manager's master reference for learning how to leverage "big data" style analytics to manage and coordinate the key issues in both energy supply and demand for a facility - and thereby to offer a more holistic approach for optimizing energy-related facility...

Completely revised and edited throughout, includes four new chapters covering electrical distribution systems; motors and drives; building commissioning; and the impact of human behavior on facility energy management. Also updated are chapters on lighting, HVAC systems, web based building automation...

Covering the full range of HVAC systems used in today's facilities, this hands-on reference provides all the details you’ll need to fully understand how HVAC systems operate. Comprehensive in scope, the book separates out each of the major system components and controls for air, water, heating, ventilating...

Managing sustainability is THE challenge of our time. It's not just a technical issue and not just a green issue. It is a management issue. A strong sustainability program requires commitment, which in turn demands effective leadership. Such leadership must draw on a solid knowledge base, the ability...

Bringing to the forefront the most critical areas of effective energy cost cutting, this fully updated edition of this best-selling energy manager's guide provides the very latest strategies for improving lighting, combustion processes, steam generation/distribution, and industrial waste re-utilization....

With the widespread availability of high-speed, high capacity microprocessors and microcomputers with high-speed communication ability, and sophisticated energy analytics software, the technology to support deployment of automated diagnostics is now available, and the opportunity to apply automated fault...

This book provides a simple, easily followed process for auditing building operations in order to identify and reduce energy consumption. The crucial steps of this process involve assessing the facility's current conditions, understanding and analyzing the operational and cost-based opportunities, reporting...

This book was written to assist the reader in making good lighting and lighting controls decisions which consider all of the most important and relevant new developments in lighting technology. It is designed to serve as a useful and practical hands-on resource for anyone involved with the engineering,...

This practical, hands-on reference is designed to serve as a guide for any organization in planning, developing, and implementing an optimally effective energy cost reduction and management program. The information presented is intended, first, to facilitate the achievement of energy reduction deployment...

Now completely revised and updated, this book provides those who select and apply lubricants with a comprehensive resource on what products are available, and which lubricants are most effective for specific applications. This new edition expands on the issues of lubricant applications by oil rings (slinger...

Now you can achieve optimum performance and efficiency in the design of electric systems for virtually any size or type of building or industrial facility utilizing the state-of-the-art methodologies detailed in this comprehensive electrical design reference. Step by step guidelines and take you through...