Chapter 6Environmental Services
Michael Beaven1, Miles Keeping2, David Pearce1 and David Shiers3
1Arup Associates, London, W1T 4BQ, UK
2Hillbreak Ltd., Buckinghamshire, HP18 9TH, UK
3School of the Built Environment,, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK
Environmental or Building Services systems and equipment must deliver comfort and amenity to the users of property through carefully designed heating, cooling, ventilation, good air quality, lighting, power, telecoms, IT, security systems, water supply and drainage.
Building services are an important part of building design and can account for 30% of the capital cost and 50% of the running costs of a typical UK office building (BSRIA, 2012). Moreover, building services should never be seen simply as mechanical and electrical kit which can be ‘bolted-on’ to a building, but must ever be seen as integral to a successful, economic design strategy, to be carefully considered at the outset of the design process.
The Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) has published an excellent series of guides which explain the principles of mechanical and electrical building engineering and can be referred to when reading this chapter.
- https://www.bsria.co.uk/about/
- https://bsria.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/bsria-blue-book-20151.pdf
- https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Rules_of_Thumb_-_Guidelines_for_building_services
The design of Building Services and choice of appropriate systems is determined by ...
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