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Building Services Engineering 5th Edition Handbook

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426 Index<br />

Sensible heat gains 137<br />

Series 296<br />

Service duct 363<br />

Service lift 384<br />

Service plant area 363<br />

<strong>Services</strong> identification 364<br />

Service zone 377<br />

Sewage lifting 235<br />

Sewers 207, 226<br />

Shading 130<br />

Shaft, lift 389<br />

Shock 305<br />

Shutters 130<br />

Sick building syndrome (SBS) 159<br />

Simultaneous demand 187<br />

Single duct 147<br />

Single-phase 292<br />

Skirting heater 89<br />

Sliding joint 375<br />

Sling psychrometer 15<br />

Slope 207<br />

Smoke 156, 216, 350<br />

Smoke detector 356<br />

Smoke ventilator 351<br />

Soakaway pit 226<br />

Soft water 179<br />

Solar collector 198<br />

Solar distillation 180<br />

Solid deposition 211<br />

Sound 323<br />

Sound power 323<br />

Sound power level 324<br />

Sound pressure 323<br />

Sound pressure level 324<br />

Specific resistance 294<br />

Springs 324<br />

Sprinkler 354<br />

Stack effect 128<br />

Stacks 207<br />

Standby generator 367<br />

Steady-state heat loss 67<br />

Steam boilers 180<br />

Storage heaters 87<br />

Supervisor 112<br />

Supply air moisture content 141<br />

Supply air temperature 138<br />

Surface condensation 242<br />

Surface emissivity 63<br />

Surface resistance 63<br />

Sustainability 393<br />

Switch-start circuit 270<br />

Tank supplies 183<br />

Target room 335<br />

Task illumination 262<br />

Telecommunications 312, 366<br />

Temperature coefficient of resistance 294<br />

Temperature gradient 251, 247<br />

Temporary electrical installation 300<br />

Temporary hardness 179<br />

Testing 216, 236, 310<br />

Therm 35<br />

Thermal comfort 395<br />

Thermal conductivity 61<br />

Thermal resistance 61<br />

Thermal storage 67, 88<br />

Thermal storage of a building 38<br />

Thermal target 53<br />

Thermal transmittance 64<br />

Thermistor anemometer 17<br />

Thermocouple 18<br />

Thermohygrograph 17<br />

Three-phase 292<br />

Three-pipe heating system 93<br />

Total energy demand target 53<br />

Total environmental loading 160<br />

Total sound field 325<br />

Tracer gas 156<br />

Traction sheave 387<br />

Trap 207<br />

Trap seal loss 209<br />

Trend 11<br />

Triple pole and neutral switch 308<br />

Trunking 307<br />

Turbulence 103<br />

Turbulent flow 324<br />

Two-pipe heating system 93<br />

Underfloor heating 90<br />

Urinal flush control 181<br />

Useful energy 37<br />

Utilization factor 266<br />

U-tube manometer 282<br />

U value 64<br />

Vane anemometer 17, 156<br />

Vaporizing burner 103<br />

Vaporizing liquid 351<br />

Vapour barrier 254<br />

Vapour compression 151<br />

Vapour diffusion 242<br />

Vapour pressure 8<br />

Vapour resistance 242<br />

Vapour resistivity 242<br />

Variable volume 148<br />

Vented system 214<br />

Ventilation 242, 285, 386<br />

Ventilation rate measurement 156<br />

Vibration 324, 376<br />

Voltage 295, 310<br />

Wall-flame burner 103<br />

Warm-air heater 93<br />

Warm-deck roof 255<br />

Waste pipe 206<br />

Water acidity and alkalinity 179<br />

Water flow 188

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