1.  Background

• Educational objectives & related courses
• Study topics, assumptions & main focus
• Your experience and expectation

• What is Environmental Services?
• Importance of HVAC
• Practical design strategy: integrated approach

• Definition & applications
• Brief history
• Air conditioning and refrigeration [Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century]
• The Father of Air Conditioning - Willis Haviland Carrier
• Five subsystems or loops of air conditioning system
• Air-side, chilled water, refrigeration equipment, heat rejection, controls
• Three generic types of systems:
• Centralised all air systems
• Partially centralised air/water systems
• Local systems
• Video presentation: Fundamentals of Air Conditioning [video, 24 min.][AV 697.93 A29]
• HVAC systems at Healthrow Airport Terminal 4, London

• Fundamentals of Air Conditioning [video, 24 min.], College of Estate Management, Reading, Berkshire, 1987. [AV 697.93 A29]

• CIBSE, 2001. Ventilation and Air Conditioning, CIBSE Guide B2, Chp. 2, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London. [697.9 V4][can be found at our WebCT]
• Wang, S. K., Lavan, Z. and Norton, P., 2000. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering, Chp. 1, CRC Press, Boca Raton. [697.93 W246 a] (or Chp. 9 of CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering [621 C9][eBook from engnetbase.com])

• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (ASHRAE)  http://www.ashrae.org
• History of Air Conditioning [ASHRAE]  http://xp20.ashrae.org/ABOUT/history.htm
• Air conditioning and refrigeration [Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century]