The Domestic Heating Design Guide 2021

Domestic heating has extensive implications for energy efficiency and the environment, topics that continue to gain prominence as issues related to them grow in national importance.

This guide was produced by the Domestic Building Services Panel to assist professional heating engineers to specify and design wet central heating systems.

Contents include:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Abbreviations
• Establishing the Client’s Requirements
• Energy Efficiency
• Heat Losses & U-Values
• U-Value Tables
• Ventilation in Living Space
• Heat Loss Calculation
• Heat Loss Worksheet Procedures & Calculations
• Heating System Design
• Sizing the Heat Source
• Domestic Hot Water Supply
• System Layouts & Pipe Sizing
• Circulator Selection
• Open Vented Systems
• Sealed Heating Systems
• Pipework Insulation
• System Controls
• Combustion Air, Ventilation & Flues
• Fuel Storage
• The Specification
• Hand Over & Future Service
• Schedule of Installed Equipment
• Appendices