Customer Reviews

HVAC Equations, Data, and Rules of Thumb, 2nd Ed.

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Are you collecting all of the most crucial mechanical design information and putting it in a three-ring binder? If so, throw it away and get this book! It has absolutely the most comprehensive collection of mechanical design information availible. Along with the ASHRAE handbooks, this is all you need for reference material.

This book is a great top-line summary of all four ASHRAE books, approximate ventilation standards, and I am constantly using the first few pages of equations and conversions. The rules of thumb are well thought out and the design standards are excellent thought provokers for design - a great book for an HVAC specialist - or in my case, someone preparing for the Mechanical PE Exam, HVAC focus (again - the equation section was extremely helpful!)

My biggest complaint about this book is that it lacks a solid index. If you are looking for a topic, you must flip through the table of contents and hopefully find what you want - that's the primary reason I can't give it a higher rating! This book won't displace your ASHRAE books...you'll still need them for sure, but it can certainly be a great supplement and "quick" reference book for sure!

Excellent handbook for an engineer. I recommend you have this on your desk for quick reference, even the rules of thumb are good for sanity checks after more thorough calculations have been made.

It does not go into a lot of detail, but for a quick reference to the "rules of thumb" it is good to have on the shelf.

book is well written, lots of useful information. only issue was a few pages were glued together, making those particular pages unreadable.

I found this book to be very helpful in the field and would recommened to all engineers