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Services Access, Lifts and Escalators, Fire-Fighting Equipment, External Access to Buildings, Services Costs

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Introduction to Building Services

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The function of a building is the usual key to the amount of electrical, mechanical, and sanitary services required: contrast the needs of, say, a hospital with a dwelling. For the dwelling, the proportion of overall construction cost attributable to the installation of services will be much smaller than far of the hospital, which could amount to as much as 50–60 per cent.

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  1. School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

    E. F. Curd & C. A. Howard

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© 1996 E.F. Curd and C.A. Howard

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Curd, E.F., Howard, C.A. (1996). Services Access, Lifts and Escalators, Fire-Fighting Equipment, External Access to Buildings, Services Costs. In: Introduction to Building Services. Macmillan Building and Surveying Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13298-0_8

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