Transient Airflow in Building Drainage Systems

Giving you the first comprehensive presentation of the ground breaking research undertaken at Heriot Watt University, with Research Council and industrial funding, this book brings a new perspective to the design of building drainage systems. It provides the Building Services community with clear and verifiable design methods that will be robust enough to meet these challenges.The Method of Characteristics techniques introduced in this book provide solutions for building services engineers. Case studies of successful applications include the forensic modelling of the SARS virus spread within Amoy Gardens in 2003 and the refurbishment of the O2 Dome. It also discusses and demonstrates applications to specialised services, including underground station drainage and highly infectious disease treatment facilities, alongside the use of the simulations in support of product development.Aimed at both professional and academic users, this book serves both as a design aid and as a core text for specialist masters courses in public health and building services engineering.

John Swaffield is Emeritus Professor and former head of the School of the Built Environment and its Drainage Research Group at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. From 1996 to 2003 he was chair of the Water Regulations Advisory Committee of the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and he was President of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers for 2008-09.