Systems design

This Chapter on how different types of building and different activities within buildings influence the choice of system.

• Heating and cooling systems
• Ventilation systems
• Systems design

• Building types

Includes hot water systems and an appendix on hydronic systems, which is also applicable to chilled water systems

• Heating and cooling systems
• Building performance calculation and simulation
• Systems design

• Systems design

This Technical Memorandum (TM) aims to help building services engineers and other professionals working on the planning, design and construction of homes: to understand and demonstrate good practice; to understand the relevant guidance, tools and other resources available; and to contribute to delivering good practice as part of a wider design team.

• Indoor environmental quality and building users
• Building envelope
• Systems design

This Guidebook provides basic knowledge of the physics and power supplies of electrostatic precipitators. It also deals with practical aspects of ESP design and gives examples of typical applications of ESPs.

• Ventilation systems
• Systems design

• power supplies of electrostatic precipitators
• aspects of ESP design
• applications of ESPs

This guidebook presents chilled beam systems, which are primarily used for cooling and ventilation in spaces and appreciate good indoor environmental quality and individual space control.

• Heating and cooling systems
• Ventilation systems
• Systems design

• chilled beam systems
• cooling and ventilation

This Guidebook describes the systems that use water as heat-carrier and when the heat exchange within the conditioned space is more than 50% radiant.

• Heating and cooling systems
• Systems design

• radiative heating and cooling
• embedded systems

• Indoor environmental quality and building users
• Ventilation systems
• Systems design

• clean air handling systems
• indoor air quality