Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings - Tapa dura

This study provides a range of information, illustrations and instruction to meet the needs of today's architecture and engineering students and practitioners. This edition discusses some of the most pressing environmental concerns in the field. It presents new design techniques and equipment to improve indoor air quality, emphasizes conservation and renewable resources, such as rainwater, graywater and solar heating, passive cooling and daylighting. The book examines the psychological as well as physiological aspects of heating and cooling, light, water and sound, and discusses the consequences of global warming and the greenhouse effect for both theory and equipment.