Good practice in the design of homes (TM60)

Tom Lelyveld (AECOM); Mary Livingstone (AECOM)

• Publisher: The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781912034277
• eBook ISBN:
  9781912034284
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Construction & Architectural Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This is the CIBSE's first significant source of guidance on the design of homes. We spend 90% of our time indoors and 65% of that at home. As such it is important that we design homes that are comfortable, safe, resource efficient and support good health and wellbeing. Homes are not all occupied by engineers, therefore it is essential that building services installations are easy to understand, control and maintain.The guidance can be applied to houses, apartments, student accommodation and care homes, both old and new. Whilst this document is predominately about designing good residential services it also covers the full project life cycle, from site analysis through to construction, handover and operation. It highlights the integrated nature of good practice design, where a multidisciplinary approach is often required. Hence it will be useful to clients, architects and constructors and, of course, building services engineers.Integrated design will require greater collaboration and understanding of the impacts of system selection and various decisions through the design, construction and subsequent occupation and operation of homes. This technical memorandum, and the reference documents highlighted within it, help identify the key issues. In recent years it has been recognised that the quality of modern housing often has not been as high as it should be, and that performance gaps prevail. It can be made more complicated by the complex nature of modern building engineering services, including whole-houseventilation, advanced heating controls and the integration of renewable energy sources. In many ways, homes are becoming more dependent on advanced technologies working well. This guidance provides a timely and much needed summary of good practice in the design of homes.

Table of contents

• CIBSE TM60 Good practice in the design of homes
• Foreword
• Principal authors
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Context
• 3 Appointment, project briefs and design development
• 4 Design and compliance tools
• 5 Key design considerations
• 6 System design
• 7 Installation, commissioning and handover
• References
• Index