Keith Shepherd Author

Tony Day BEng (Hons), PhD, CEng, MCIBSE, MInstE is a Senior Lecturer at South Bank University where he is course director of the MSc in Building Services Engineering. He specializes in evaluating energy use in buildings and also lectures in the wider context of energy and the environment. He has published a number of papers on building energy analysis, as well as the development of renewable energy systems. Before entering academia he was a Chief Engineer at a London hospital.

Martin Ratcliffe BSc (Hons), CEng, MCIBSE has been involved in building services for more than 25 years, working as a senior mechanical engineer at a large international consultancy and, for the last 14 years, Senior Lecturer and course director for Building Services at South Bank University. In this last role he has concentrated on teaching the holistic design of mechanical services with emphasis on performance and energy consumption and has been involved with recent CIBSE and BSRIA design guides.

Keith Shepherd BEng (Hons), MSc is a building services consultant. A graduate of the Institute of Environmental Engineering at London’s South Bank Polytechnic, where he gained first class honours in environmental engineering, he was awarded a Master of Science degree by research from UMIST. Author of a book VAV Air Conditioning Systems (also published by Blackwell) and several papers, his 22 years’ experience of building services encompasses design, project management, research, lecturing, estimating and quantity surveying.