Electrical Design Guide for Commercial Buildings

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 353 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
• Edition: 1st Edition July 1, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0070119910
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0070119918
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 3.3 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Description
With this authoritative, easy-to-follow guide, you can design and specify electrical systems for virtually any commercial building easily, efficiently, and accurately. You'll be able to submit lower bids, foster greater client satisfaction, and encounter fewer problems during construction. Electrical Design Guide for Commercial Buildings shows you step by step how to organize, layout and circuit, and complete the design of electrical power and telephone/communications systems for commercial and industrial buildings. This handy guide gives you all the information and tables you need within a comprehensive step-by-step map of the entire design process. You also get a rich assortment of schematics, sample details, typical floor plans, and model documents, the ten most-used NEC tables, pro-level tips on energy conservation and cost cutting, and help withÑand even source code forÑfrequently used computer applications. Whether pro or novice, you'll find the key to better, faster, and cheaper electrical design for commercial buildings inside this book.

Back Cover Copy
Step by step to accurate, efficient design. With this authoritative, easy-to-follow guide, you can design and specifiy electrical systems for virtually any commercial building easily, efficiently, andccurately. You'll be able to submit lower bids, foster greater client satisfaction, and encounter fewer problems during construction. Electrical Design Guide for Commercial Buildings shows you step by step hot to organize, layout and circuit, and complete the design of electrical power and telephone/communications systems for commercial and industrial buildings. This simple-to-use guide gives you: all the information and tables you need to complete an electrical design for almost any commercial building; a comprehensive step-by-step map of the entire design process plans, and model documents; the ten most-used National Electrical Code tables for quick access to frequently needed information; tips on designing for energy conservation, cost cutting, minimizing project agendas, and more; a chapter on computer applications, featuring AutoCAD, help with designing calculation programs, and source code for common applications. Whether pro or novice, you'll find the key to better, faster, and cheaper electrical design for commercial buildings inside this book.

Reader Reviews
My main grips is what he says about fiber optic cables (P. 73) "They are sensitive to magnetic fields from motors, air handling units, and other large electrical appliances." Completely untrue. One of the BENEFITS of fiber is immunity to EMI/RFI interference. "Fiber opric cable is extremely difficuit (i.e. costly) to splice". This may have been true oh, say back in 1968, but modern splicing and repair techniques make this much simpler and cost effective then ever before. Oh, also on page 330: "Most HVAC designers are lazy". Now, how can he make a blanket statement like this? That is like saying most garbage men are Mexican! Bottom line, its a good book for someone new to the field either as a designer, drafter, engineer, or electrician. It explains the basics of power systems for commercial buildings, and what major choices influence the design process. I would give the book an A- grade if only for the points mentioned above.