Plumbing Design and Practice

Description

While the core principles of plumbing remain traditionally the same, the requirement of the new types of buildings and users demanding innovation, advanced planning, close coordination with architects and experts have become quite essential. Present day planning techniques require strict compliance of building, plumbing, fire, and Environmental Codes. This requires innovation, advanced planning, close co-ordination with the builders, architects and experts on each project.

There is greater need to address problems to reduce consumption of water and energy. It also requires the use of non-conventional sources of energy and reduce the load on public services on sewage and solid waste disposal. There also the urgent need for conserving rain water by appropriate rain water harvesting techniques within individual buildings. In order to cover up all such issues and concerns each chapter has been revisited and new developments have been included at various places so that the reader gets the best from the new edition.

Key Features

• New chapters on Plumbing Mathematics, Water & its properties, Rainwater harvesting, and Green Plumbing
• Upgradations in the field of building construction
• New techniques of plumbing utilized in individual buildings, big housing projects, offices, commercial complexes, large hospitals, and hotels
• Inclusion of Green Building norms in order to reduce water and energy consumption
• Methods of conserving rainwater by adopting appropriate rainwater harvesting techniques
• Charts and information from the Uniform Plumbing Code (India)
• Usage of non-conventional sources of energy to reduce the load on sewages and solid waste disposal

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Objectives of Design
3. Plumbing Hydraulics
4. Plumbing Mathematics
5. Water and its properties
6. Plumbing Fixtures
7. Drainage
8. Rain Water Disposal
9. Rain Water Harvesting
10. Water Supply
11. Hot Water System
12. Corrosion
13. Water Treatment
14. Pumping System
15. Specialized Plumbing Systems
16. Fire Suppression Systems
17. Planning and Coordination
18. Green Plumbing
19. Appendix
20. References
21. Index