Building Services Engineering Spreadsheets

This book is a versatile, user friendly tool for design calculations. It deals with spreadsheet use, thermal transmittance, building heat loss and heat gain, combustion analysis, fan selection, air duct design, water pipe sizing, lumen lighting design, and electrical cable sizing, all at a suitable level for practical design work. The spreadsheet applications provided with the book allow the user to inspect everything that the program undertakes. Parts of the worksheets can be copied to other cells in order to expand the size of each worksheet. Experienced spreadsheet operators can edit the cells to change the way in which data and calculations are used, and with guidance from the explanatory notes, build their own applications.