Facilities Engineering and Management Handbook: Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Buildings

Anand K. Seth; Paul R. Smith; Roger P. Wessel; Mark M. Neitlich; William L. Porter; David L. Stymiest

ISBN 10: 007059323X / ISBN 13: 9780070593237

Edité par McGraw-Hill, 2000

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• Titre: Facilities Engineering and Management Handbook: Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Buildings
• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 007059323X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780070593237
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Poids: 5,55 livres

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Synopsis

A practical reference guide to all types of buildings systems, from boilers to telecommunications. The book covers the codes and standards that regulate the design, installation, operation and maintenance of buildings and facilities.

À propos des auteurs

Paul R. Smith is a principal with Peak Leadership Group in Boston, Massachusetts, and has more than 25 years of diverse experience focused on defining and improving business operations, including development of high performance cross-functional teams. He writes and presents workshops nationwide for the American Management Association (AMA), the Project Management Institute (PMI), The Northwestern University MBA Program, and Boston University (BU). He is a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) and Licensed Project Management Professional (PMP). Smith is also the author of Piping Systems and Their Supports (McGraw-Hill), and has presented more than 15 papers at national conferences, two of which were reprinted in international magazines.

Anand K. Seth is the Director of Utilities and Engineering for Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (PHS) in Boston, Massachusetts. He has published numerous papers on HVAC, energy conservation, and other facilities issues. He also co-authored Laboratory Design Health and Safety Considerations, (John Wiley & Sons, 1993). Seth has taught extension courses at Franklin Institute of Boston and Cambridge College and regularly teaches extension courses at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an active member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers and a member of TC 9.8: Large Building Air Conditioning Systems and is chair of a special project committee SP91, in charge of writing a design manual for HVAC systems for hospitals and clinics. Seth is a Registered Professional Engineer in several states, a Certified Plant Engineer, and a Certified Energy Manager.

Roger P. Wessel, is the Principal of RPW Technologies, Inc., consultants, involved largely with the engineering, management, and operations of commercial and industrial facilities. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with forty years of experience involving power plants and facilities design, engineering, construction, and operations. Formerly, as a Senior Program Manager at Raytheon Engineers and Constructors, Inc., he was responsible for various energy conservation, waste-to-energy, and thermal energy storage projects at several Raytheon facilities, as well as other industrial and commercial facilities. Wessel graduated from SUSNY Maritime College with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree and worked for twenty years on the design, engineering, and construction, and testing of nuclear submarines and their support and testing facilities at Groton, Connecticut, and at the Naval Reserve Test Facility in Arco, Idaho.

William L. Porter is Professor of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning. He is Co-Director of the Space Planning and Organization Research Group (SPORG) at MIT. He has taught courses on programming and workplace design and conducted research with his students on the relationships between physical and informational settings for work. He has co-authored Excellence by Design: Transforming Workplace and Work Practice, (John Wiley & Sons, 1999). Dr. Porter is a Registered Architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He has Bachelor of Arts and Master of Architecture degrees from Yale University and a Ph.D. from MIT.

Mark W. Neitlich, the retired Owner, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Engineer of a chemical manufacturing company, has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration in Management from New York University. He has copy edited a wide range of scientific books and journals for the past five years.