Members of the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning industry have sponsored the production of a basic building services textbook for students. An electronic version of this book can be downloaded from here in 5 parts. A printed copy of the book can be purchased for £19.99 (post free) by emailing an order the publishers.

To reduce the problems encountered in downloading large files the HVAC textbook is divided into five parts, each stored as a pdf file. To view these you need adobe acrobat reader installed on your computer. To obtain this first bookmark this page so that you can return to it later, then download the reader (free) by clicking on the following icon.

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Return to this page, then click on the required section titles below to view them and
save to disk.

Part 1 (includes contents)
Indirect heating 1 (1.96 MB)

Part 2
Indirect heating 2, direct heating (1.62MB)

Part 3
Ventilation (0.75MB)

Part 4
Air conditioning 1 (1.80MB)

Part 5
Air Conditioning 2 (3.01MB)