by Brianna Crandall — January 24, 2014—The U.K.-based Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has updated and published a new edition of its guide for plumbing and heating systems, Guide G: Public Health and Plumbing Engineering. The current edition places a greater emphasis on water conservation and sustainability.
Produced in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineers (CIPHE), Guide G is essential reading for plumbing and heating engineers, public health designers, installers and practitioners involved with such systems. It offers guidance across a range of systems from underground drainage and treatment, pumps and gaseous piped services to swimming pools, steam and condensate.
The Guide complements the U.K. Health and Safety Executive’s Approved Code of Practice and guidance revised L8 series Legionnaires’ Disease: The Control of Legionella Bacteria in Water Systems.
With U.K. population increasing and cities becoming more densely populated, it is critical to ensure sanitary water quality and plumbing systems to protect public health, reminds CIBSE. Guide G offers authoritative standards and addresses critical matters such as water treatment, irrigation, steam, condensate and Legionnaires’ disease.
The guide reflects various recent amendments to the U.K. Building Regulations and British Standards, and the introduction of new codes. The current emphasis on water conservation and sustainability has also had an impact on many chapters, and influenced the reformatting of the publication.
Since the modern-day public health design engineer has a significant role to play not only in reducing the consumption of water and energy but also in looking at the wider environmental impact of the systems designed and materials specified, Guide G includes a chapter on conservation and sustainability with a useful overview of pertinent advice.
A hard copy of the publication can now be ordered online through the CIBSE Knowledge Portal and is also available for download, free of charge to CIBSE members.
