I am a building services project manager working on the early design stages of a building that was to use ground source heat pumps. The main contractor has discovered that they are over budget and have asked for value engineering solutions to lower the costs. We have been asked to carry out a...
I have a thermal insulation spec that asks for cold draw to be prevented around supporting bracketry on pipework supports. My interpretation of this is that due to the fact that part of the bracket is outside of the thermal insulation the intention would be to keep the bracket from actually...
Hi, I am a Project Building Services Engineer and require some simple formulas for calculating the size of steel sections for supporting pipe, duct and plant etc. So point loads and spread loads etc. Some structured reading would also be useful.
