MECH3423 Building Services Engineering II
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    Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (HVAC)

    Design Guides and Databooks:

    • ASHRAE, 2013. UFAD Guide: Design, Construction, and Operation of Underfloor Air Distribution Systems, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [on order]
    • ASHRAE 581-RP Project Team, 1993. Air-conditioning Systems Design Manual, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697.93 A51]
    • Bell, A. A., 2000. HVAC: Equations, Data, and Rules of Thumb, McGraw-Hill, New York. [697.000151 B4] [* available in eBook]
    • Carpenter, J. H., 1984. Air Conditioning System Design Guidelines, Carrier Air Conditioning, Syracuse, NY. [P 697.93 C29]
    • Carrier Corporation, 1965. Handbook of Air Conditioning System Design, McGraw-Hill, New York. [697.93 C3]
    • CIBSE, 2003. Refrigeration and Heat Rejection, CIBSE Guide B4, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London. [697.93 R33 C]
    • CIBSE, 2001. Ventilation and Air Conditioning, CIBSE Guide B2, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London. [697.9 V4]
    • Grondzik, W. (ed.), 2007. Air-conditioning Systems Design Manual, Second Edition, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA and Butterworth-Heinemann, Burlington, MA. [697.93 A298 G87] [From ScienceDirect]
    • Pedersen, C. O., et al., 1998. Cooling and Heating Load Calculation Principles, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 C77]
    • Race, G. L., 2002. Design Checks for HVAC: A Quality Control Framework for Building Services Engineers, Application Guide AG 1/2002, Building Services Research and Information Association, Bracknell, Berkshire, England. [697 R1][697 R1 d] (printed and CD-ROM versions)
    • Race, G. L. and Mitchell, S., 2003. A Practical Guide to HVAC Building Services Calculations, Building Services Research and Information Association, Bracknell, Berkshire, England. [697 R1 p] [697 R1 p8] (printed and CD-ROM versions)
    • SMACNA, 1990. HVAC Systems Duct Design, 3rd ed., Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association, Chantilly, VA. [697 H98 S5d]
    • Sun, T.-Y., 1994. Air Handling System Design, McGraw-Hill, New York. [697 S95]
    • Trane Company, 2000. Cooling and Heating: Load Estimation, Trane Company, La Crosse, Wisconsin. [697.93 A29 T02]
    • Trane Company, 1996. Trane Air Conditioning Manual, Trane Company, La Crosse, Wisconsin. [697 T77]
    • Wickham, F. (ed.), 1998. Air Conditioning: Load Estimation, 3rd ed., Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Institute of Refrigeration Heating Air Conditioning Engineers, Auckland, New Zealand. [697 A64 DA9]
    Education: Learning Packages:
    • Burr, R. W., et al., 1998. Fundamentals of Air System Design, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [697 F98]
    • Fenton, D. L., 2000. Fundamentals of Refrigeration, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [621.56 F34]
    • Hegberg, R. A., 1999. Fundamentals of Water System Design, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [697 H46]
    • Howell, R. H., Coad, W. J. and Sauer, H. J., 2013. Principles of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, 7th ed., American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
    • Howell, R. H., Sauer, H. J. and Coad, W. J., 2005. Principles of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 H85 p]
    • Kavanaugh, S. P., 2006. HVAC Simplified, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 K2]
    • Johnson, R. R., 1999. Fundamentals of HVAC Systems, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [697 J68 f]
    • Mcdowall, R., 2007. Fundamentals of HVAC Systems, SI edition, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [697 M13] [From ScienceDirect]
    • Meredith, D. B., 2000. Fundamentals of Heating and Cooling Loads, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [697 M55]
    Software Tools: Technical References:
    • ASHRAE, 2013. ASHRAE Handbook Fundamentals 2013, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
    • ASHRAE, 2012. ASHRAE HVAC Systems and Equipment Handbook 2012, SI edition, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
    • ASHRAE, 2011. ASHRAE HVAC Applications Handbook 2011, SI edition, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
    • ASHRAE, 2010. ASHRAE Refrigeration Handbook 2010, SI edition, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
    • ASHRAE, 2009. ASHRAE Handbook Fundamentals 2009, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
    • ASHRAE, 2008. ASHRAE Systems and Equipment Handbook 2008, SI edition, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ebook via Knovel (IP edition))][AV 697 A82 H04]
    • ASHRAE, 2006. ASHRAE Refrigeration Handbook 2006, SI edition, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [AV 697 A82 H06 r  CDROM][ebook via Knovel (IP edition)]
    • ASHRAE, 2005. ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook 2005, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta, GA. [AV 697 A82 H05]
    • ASHRAE, 2004. ASHRAE Standard 55-2004: Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [R  697.00218 A82 S78]
    • ASHRAE, 1996. Psychrometrics: Theory and Practice, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [551.5710287 P9]
    • Auliciems, A. and Szokolay, S. V., 2002. Thermal Comfort, 2nd ed., Research, Consulting and Communications, Kangaroo Valley, NSW : 2002. [693.832 A92][http://plea-arch.org/wp-content/uploads/PLEA-NOTE-3-THERMAL-COMFORT.pdf]
    • Butera, F. M., 1998. Principles of thermal comfort, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, 2 (1-2): 39-66. [online journal]
    • Fanger, P. O.,1970. Thermal Comfort: Analysis and Applications in Environmental Enginesering, McGraw-Hill, New York. [697.9315 F2]
    • Gatley, D. P., 2005. Understanding Psychrometrics, 2nd ed., American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [551.5710287 G2]
    • Hens, H. S. L. C., 2011. Applied Building Physics: Boundary Conditions, Building Performance and Material Properties, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. [697 H52 a]
    • HVCA, 2000. Specification for Plastic Ductwork, Heating & Ventilating Contractors Association (HVCA), Penrith Cumbria. [P 697 S74 H]
    • HVCA, 1998. Specification for Sheet Metal Ductwork: Low, Medium and High Pressure/Velocity Air Systems, Heating & Ventilating Contractors Association (HVCA), Penrith Cumbria. [697 S74]
    • Jones, W. P., 2001. Air Conditioning Engineering, 5th ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford & Boston. [697.93 J79 a] [ebook via ScienceDirect]
    • Jones, W. P., 1997. Air Conditioning Applications and Design, 2nd ed., Arnold, London. [697.93 J79]
    • Kavanaugh, S. P., 2006. HVAC Simplified, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 K2]
      • Heating & Cooling Load Calculation Form - CLTD/CLF/SCL Method (IP units) [Excel]
    • Kreith, F. and Goswami, D. Y. (eds.), 2005. The CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering, 2nd ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. [621 C9][ebook via ENGnetBASE]
      • Chapter 9. Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration (by Herbert A. Ingley, Shan K. Wang, Ari Rabl, Peter S. Curtiss, Zalman Lavan)
    • McQuiston, F. C., Parker, J. D. and Spitler, J. D., 2005. Heating, Ventilating, and Air conditioning: Analysis and Design, 6th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J. [697 M17]
    • Mitchell, J. W. and Braun, J. E., 2013. Principles of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning in Buildings, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. [697 M681 p95]
    • Nicol, F., Humphreys, M. and Roaf, S., 2012. Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice, Earthscan from Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon [England] and New York, NY. [697 N634 a22]
    • Pedersen, C. O., et al., 1998. Cooling and Heating Load Calculation Principles, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 C77]
    • Olesen, B. W, and Brager, G. S., 2004. A better way to predict comfort, ASHRAE Journal, 46 (8): 20-28. [online]
    • Oughton, D. R. and Hodkinson, S. L., 2008. Faber & Kell's Heating and Air-conditioning of Buildings, 10th ed., Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, Amsterdam, Boston and London. [697 M38][2002 ed. ebook]
    • Severns, W. H. and Fellows, J. R., 1949. Heating, Ventilating, and Air-conditioning Fundamentals, 2nd ed., Wiley, New York. [697 S49 h]
    • Spitler, J. D., 2010. Load Calculation Applications Manual, SI ed., American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [697 S761 l79]
    • Wang, S. K., 2001. Handbook of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York. [697.93 W24 h][eBook via Knovel]
    • Wang, S. K., Lavan, Z. and Norton, P., 2000. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering, CRC Press, Boca Raton. [697.93 W246 a]
    • Will, H. M. (ed.), 1999. The First Century of Air Conditioning, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc., Atlanta, GA. [697.93 F52]
    Ventilation Design: Video Presentation: Web Links:

    Fire Services, Safety and Protection

    References (Fire protection engineering):

    • ASFP, 2005. Ensuring Best Practice for Passive Fire Protection in Buildings, Association for Specialist Fire Protection, Farnham, Surrey. [628.922 E59]
    • BD, 2011. Code of Practice for Fire Safety in Buildings 2011, Buildings Department, Hong Kong. [BD website][PDF]
    • Bickerdike Allen Partners, 1996. Design Principles of Fire Safety, HMSO, London. [628.920942 D45]
    • Billington, M. J. and Copping, A. G., 2002. Means of Escape from Fire, Blackwell Science, Oxford. [628.922 B5]
    • BSB, 2001. General Specification for Fire Service Installation in Government Buildings of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Building Services Branch, Architectural Services Department, Hong Kong. [HKC 352.3095125 H7 E]
    • BSI, 2008. BS 9999:2008, Code of Practice for Fire Safety in the Design, Management and Use of Buildings, British Standards Institution, London. [HKU Library]
    • Butcher, E. G. and Parnell, A. C., 1979. Smoke Control in Fire Safety Design, Spon, London. [628.922 B9][Chinese ebook via SuperStar Digital Library]
    • CIBSE, 2010. Fire Engineering, CIBSE Guide E, 3rd ed., Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London. [LB 628.922 F52 C]
    • DiNenno, P. J., et al. (eds.), 2002. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 3rd ed., National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA and Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, MD. [628.922 S52]
    • Drysdale, D., 2011. An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, 3rd ed., Wiley, Chichester, West Sussex. [541.361 D811 i61][2nd ed. ebook via EBSCOhost]
    • FSD, 2012. Minimum Fire Service Installations and Equipment and Inspection, Testing and Maintenance of Installations and Equipment, Fire Services Department, Hong Kong. [HK 344.205377 C6] [available from FSD website]
    • Hasofer, A. M., Beck, V. R. and Bennetts, I. D., 2007. Risk Analysis in Building Fire Safety Engineering, Butterworth-Heinemann, Amsterdam & Boston. [628.922015118 H35]
    • Jackson, L (ed.), 1997. Guide to Building Fire Protection, Fire Protection Association, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. [693.82 G94]
    • Jones, A. M. Jr., 2009. Fire Protection Systems, Delmar Cengage Learning, Clifton Park, NY. [628.922 J76]
    • Klote, J. H., Milke, J. A., Turnbull, P. G., Kashef, A. and Ferreira, M. J., 2012. Handbook of Smoke Control Engineering,
      American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc., Atlanta, GA. [on order]
    • Lataille, J. I., 2003. Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design, Butterworth-Heinemann, Amsterdam. [628.922 L35]
    • Nash, P. and Young, R. A., 1991. Automatic Sprinkler Systems for Fire Protection, 2nd ed., Paramount Publishing Ltd., Barehamwood, Herts. [628.9252 N2]
    • NFPA, 2011. National Fire Codes: A Compilation of NFPA Codes, Standards, Recommended Practices, and Guides, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. [628.92 N27  v.1-v.18]
    • NFPA, 1997. Fire Protection Handbook, National Fire Protection Association, Boston, MA. [R  628.922 F52]
    • Purkiss, J. A., 2007. Fire Safety Engineering: Design of Structures, 2nd ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, U.K. [693.82 P98]
    • Rasbash, D., et al., 2004. Evaluation of Fire Safety, J. Wiley & Sons, West Sussex. [628.922 E9]
    • Tamura, G. T., 1994. Smoke Movement and Control in High-rise Buildings, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. [628.92 T1]
    • Todd, C. S., 2000. Fire Precautions: A Guide for Management, 2nd ed., Gower, Aldershot. [628.92 T639 f]

    References (Fire sprinkler system + fire hydrant/hose reel systems):

    • Bryan, J. L., 1990. Automatic Sprinkler and Standpipe Systems, 2nd ed., National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. [628.9252 B9]
    • Bromann, M., 2001. The Design and Layout of Fire Sprinkler Systems, 2nd ed., Technomic Pub. Co., Lancaster, PA. [628.9252 B86]
    • BSB, 2001. General Specification for Fire Service Installation in Government Buildings of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Building Services Branch, Architectural Services Department, Hong Kong. [HKC 352.3095125 H7 E]
    • BSI, 2004. BS EN 12845:2004, Fixed Firefighting Systems -- Automatic Sprinkler Systems -- Design, Installation and Maintenance, British Standards Institution, London. [HKU Library]
    • BSI, 1990. BS 5306-2:1990, Fire Extinguishing Installations and Equipment on Premises. Specification for Sprinkler Systems, British Standards Institution, London. [HKU Library]
    • BSI, 1976. BS 5306-1: 1976: Code of Practice Fire Extinguishing Installations and Equipment on Premises -- Part 1: Hydrant Systems, Hose Reels and Foam Inlets, British Standards Institution, London. [620.00218 S74 I]
    • BSRIA, 2006. Recommendations for Fire Risk Assessment of Catering Extract Ventilation, The Fire Protection Association and Building Services Research and Information Association, Bracknell, Berkshire, England. [P 363.379 R31]
    • CIBSE, 1997. Fire Engineering, CIBSE Guide E, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London. [LB 628.920942 F5]
    • DiNenno, P. J., et al. (eds.), 1995. SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 2nd ed., National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, Mass. [628.922 S52]
    • FSD, 1998. Minimum Fire Service Installations and Equipment and Inspection, Testing and Maintenance of Installations and Equipment, Fire Services Department, Hong Kong. [available from FSD website]
    • Gagnon, R. M., 1997. Design of Water-based Fire Protection Systems, Delmar Publishers, Albany, N.Y. [628.9252 G135 d]
    • Hancock, D. C., 2001. Fire Risk Assessment: A Practical Guide, Chubb Fire Ltd., Middlesex. [LB 628.922 H23]
    • Lataille, J. I., 2003. Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design, Butterworth-Heinemann, Amsterdam. [628.922 L35]
    • LPC, 2003. LPC Rules for Automatic Sprinkler Installations, Fire Protection Association, London. [AV 628.9252 L9 F][RLB 628.9252 L9]
    • LPC, 1999. The Design Guide for the Fire Protection of Buildings 2000: A Code of Practice for the Protection of Business, [Rev. ed.], Fire Protection Association, London. [LB 628.922 D45]
    • Nash, P. and Young, R. A., 1991. Automatic Sprinkler Systems for Fire Protection, 2nd ed., Paramount Publishing Ltd., Barehamwood, Herts. [628.9252 N2]
    • NFPA, 1997. Fire Protection Handbook, National Fire Protection Association, Boston, MA. [R 628.922 F52]
    • PRC Public Security Department, 2001. Code of Design for Sprinkler Systems, China Planning Publisher, Beijing. [[中] TH9336 .Z53 2001]
    • Sands, J., 2002. Fire Extinguishing Systems: A Guide to Their Integration with Other Building Services, Building Services Research and Information Association, Bracknell, Berkshire, UK. [628.925 S22]
    • Notes from Mr K P Cheung:

    Videos:
    | Created: 19 Apr 2015 | Update: 5 Oct 2015 | By: cmhui@hku.hk |