CIBSE Guide L - Sustainability (2nd Edition)

This Guide provides building services engineers with guidance on how to respond to the changing sustainability agenda. It describes: how they can influence the work done and decisions made by clients and other professionals. The actions that building services engineers should take to enable their work to deliver sustainable outcomes. Engineers have a huge influence over the energy use, carbon dioxide emissions, health and wellbeing, water use and other sustainability outcomes of buildings and the wider projects in which they sit. There is increasing pressure to address these issues and to understand how engineering decisions can deliver a more sustainable built environment.