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Alberta Building Code, 2006
Library Special Collections: 690.026 A333 2006

Alberta Fire Code, 2006
Library Special Collections: 690.026 A333Fir 2006

ASHRAE Handbook: Fundamentals
Library Reference Area: 697 A512f 2009

ASHRAE Handbook: Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Applications, 2011
Library Reference Area: 697 A512ap 2011

ASHRAE Handbook: Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Systems and Equipment, 2012
Library Main Book Shelves: 697 A512he 2012

ASHRAE Handbook: Refrigeration
Library Main Book Shelves: 697 A512re 2010

ASHRAE Terminology of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration
Library Main Book Shelves: 697.03 A 827 1991

Handbook of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
Library Reference Area: 697.93 W246 2001

Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering: An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance
Library Main Book Shelves: 720.47 H236 2009

HVAC/R Terminology: A Quick Reference Guide
Library Reference Area: 697.03 W799 1998

HVAC Systems Design Handbook
Library Main Book Shelves: 697 H153 Hva 2010

HVAC Troubleshooting Guide
Library Main Book Shelves: 697 M649 2009

National Building Code of Canada, 2005
Library Special Collections: 690.026 N277 2005

 

Electronic Resources

AccessEngineering
Covers a wide range of McGraw-Hill engineering-related resources. Includes core eBooks such as Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more. Indexes over 250 eBook publications.

AccessScience
Covers information on more than 7000 scientific topics. Includes over 8,500 articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and over 110,000 definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Also includes illustrations, animations, videos, bibliographies, biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists, and news articles and videos on current science and technology topics.

Alberta Building Code
Full text of the 2006 code.

ASHRAE Greenguide: The Design, Construction, and Operation of Sustainable Buildings

ASHRAE Handbook: Fundamentals, 2009
Covers basic principles and data used in the HVAC&R industry.

ASHRAE Handbook: Heating, Ventilating, & Air-Conditioning Applications, 2007
This book covers a broad range of facilities and topics, and is written to help engineers design and use equipment and systems described in other ASHRAE Handbook volumes.

ASHRAE Handbook: Heating, Ventilating, & Air-Conditioning Systems and Equipment, 2008
This handbook discusses various systems and the equipment (components or assemblies) that comprise them, and describes features and differences.

ASHRAE Handbook: Refrigeration, 2006
This handbook is a reference for the practicing engineer or anyone involved in the cooling and storage of food products.

CCOHS (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety: Web Information Service)
Covers occupational health and safety information. Includes Canadian health, safety and environmental legislation plus CGSB standards referenced in the legislation, MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets), CHEMINFO, RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances), OSH references, OSH answers, IPCS INCHEM, CHEMINDEX, fatality reports, and WHMIS classifications.

CSA B149.1HB-00 Natural Gas and Propane Installation Code Handbook

CSA B149.1HB-00 Natural Gas and Propane Installation Code Handbook

ENGnetBASE
One of the eBook collections in CRCnetBASE. Covers a wide range of civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, mining, and power engineering topics.

Knovel
Full text of reference books in the fields of chemistry and the life sciences, metals, and engineering. Click on "My Subscription" to retrieve only titles that NAIT has full access to.

National Building Code
Full text of the 2005 code. The 2010 code is currently available in print only and is located in Special Collections, behind the Lending Services desk.

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Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI)
The Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) is the national trade association representing manufacturers of more than 90 percent of North American produced central air-conditioning and commercial refrigeration equipment. The free download of technical standards for industry products is available.

ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers)
The most up-to-date information from the leader in the HVAC&R industry.

The Canadian Institute of Plumbing & Heating
The Canadian Institute of Plumbing & Heating is a not for profit association. They are the Manufacturers, Wholesaler Distributors, Master Distributors, Manufacturers' Agents and allied companies who manufacture and distribute plumbing, hydronic heating, industrial, waterworks and other mechanical products.

Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute of Canada
The institute is a partnership of industry sector organizations that represents Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) manufacturers, wholesalers and contractors who provide the Canadian public with products and services for indoor comfort and essential refrigeration processes. The institute is also the national HVACR industry association.

HVAC Portal
Contains links to information and tools for the HVAC professional. The information is organized in useful sections such as: Interactive tools; Career and Recruiting; Organizations; Education; Codes and Standards.

Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES)
RSES has information you can use on many topics. From gas heating to residential air conditioning to ice makers to IAQ and much more, RSES truly is "more than refrigeration".

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Call numbers help you find the areas of the library shelves relevant to your program.

• 621.4 Heat engineering
• 621.6 Fans, blowers, pumps
• 696.1 Plumbing
• 696.2 Pipe fitting
• 696.3 Steam pipes
• 697 Heating, ventilation and air conditioning

Suggested search terms for topics include the following, which can be used in the library search tool, databases and the internet. Check the help section in the library search tool, each database or search engine for details. Quotation marks (“ “) around words mean that the words will be searched together, in that order, as a phrase. For example: “air flow”.

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• air flow
• boilers
• boilers
• cooling
• dwellings
• exhaust
• heat exchangers
• heating
• indoor air pollution
• pipes
• plumbing
• pressure vessels
• pumps
• refrigerant
• refrigerants
• refrigerating machinery
• refrigeration
• ventilation

Selected titles important to your program are listed here.

Commercial Refrigeration for Air Conditioning Technicians 
Library Main Book Shelves: 697 W799 2010

Electricity & Controls for HVAC/R 
Library Main Book Shelves: 697 H551 2010

Fundamentals of HVAC/R
Library Main Book Shelves: 697 S785 2010

HVAC Fundamentals
Library Main Book Shelves: 697 S947 2005

Indoor Air Pollution
Library Main Book Shelves: 628.53 I41 Plu 2004

Low Energy Cooling for Sustainable Buildings
Library Main Book Shelves: 697.93 E34 2009

Managing Indoor Air Quality
Library Main Book Shelves: 628.53 B972 2011

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Academic Search Complete
Covers virtually every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences.

Applied Science & Technology
Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields in science, engineering and technology. Includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Indexes over 400 core English-language scientific and technical publications.

Online and print journals important to your program are listed here.

Print Resources

ASHRAE Journal
Library Periodicals Area: Shelved alphabetically by title.

Hydraulics and Pneumatics
Library Periodicals Area: Shelved alphabetically by title.

Electronic Resources

Building and Environment

Canadian Building Digests

Construction Innovation

Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management

Energy and Buildings

International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping

International Journal of Refrigeration

SNIPS
Information for those in the sheet metal, heating, air conditioning, ventilation and metal roofing fields.

To locate print and online journals by title check our Journal Title List.  It lists all of the journals that you can access through the Library.

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