| Sumario: | "Up to date guidance for non-engineering specialists to participate in the building services early design process. Integrated design is expanded to guide the reader through the essential stages of client consultation, feasibility and selection of the design criteria, regulation compliance, the principal early ‘big picture’ issues. Subsequent chapters provide updated overview of systems and equipment required for air conditioning, vertical transport, electrical power, fire protection and water supply. The practical worked examples complete the book.This book is all about the engineering services commonly installed in new and refurbished commercial buildings. The information provided will be useful to both students and building professionals; architects, builders, consulting engineers, property and facilities managers and surveyors, in fact anyone associated with the building industry who needs a broad overview of the impact these services have on building design, without getting too involved in the engineering details.The aim is to assist non-engineering specialists and commercial property and building industry professionals to participate in and understand early design processes and decisions for Air conditioning, heating, ventilating, electrical power, vertical transport, fire protection and water supply are covered, all of which can require significant space and affect other components of the total design.The very early stage is, without doubt, the most critical period of the entire building design process. This is a time when all members of the design team need to get a realistic feel for what the finished building will look like. A reasonably accurate, though approximate, prediction of the end result is an essential basis for early decision making on which future detailed design is based" -- Editor
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