Building Services: Engineering for Architects

Feedback for Better Building Service Design
By Colin Charles Pearson, Building Services Research and Information Association, Gay Lawrence Race
The UK construction industry spends around u1billion each year on rectifying defects and failures, some of which may be preventable through improved feedback to designers on the success and failures of installed plant and systems.
Architectural Hardware
By Nancy E. Berry
ANTIFRICTION BOLT: The latch bolt of a lock with a device for diminishing the sliding friction of the bolt during the closing of a door. A small additional latch connected with a regular latch bolt. It engages the strike and retracts ...
Fixings
By NHS Estates
Fixings
Time-saver Standards for Building Materials & Systems: Design Criteria and Selection Data
By Donald Watson
This volume, the newest volume in the Time-Saver Standards Series, offers easily referenced and detailed technical guidelines for architects and builders to design and select any material, product or system for any building construction ...