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  1. Heating (2003)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 35 minutes), £65.00

    Examines the evolution of modern central heating. It describes early heating and hot water systems of the early 20th century and goes on to explain the principles of modern wet systems. It includes footage...

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  2. Piping Hot (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Ashby
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Studies combined heat and power (CHP), and district heating systems, and shows examples of both - Rotterdam, where a centrally situated power station, Schiehaven, has been converted to CHP and supplies how...

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  3. Diary of an Ecobuild (2006)

    Director
    Anne Gallagher
    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £30.00

    Charts the conversion of a terraced building in the Welsh Valleys into an environmentally friendly and energy self-sufficient building. Goes quite deeply, though in layman’s language, into this ecological...

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  4. Introduction to the Control of Legionella Bacteria in Water Systems, An (2003)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building; Health & safety; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

    This video looks at the two main risk systems in turn - cooling towers and hot and cold water systems and explains how the risks from exposure to legionella should be managed and controlled, specifically by...

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  5. Water Hammer (1995)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Free to UK higher education institutions

    A CAL simulation for building engineering that deals with the water hammer effect (transient pressure propagation) and identification of strategies to control the effect. Relevant in a range of areas as...

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  6. Coal House, The (2008)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £13.99

    Three families experience life in the south of Wales coalfield of the 1920s. The families swap their modern luxuries for the harsh reality of daily life of a coalmining family, living in coalminers’...

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  7. Solar Household, The (1978 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Designed to boost confidence in the use of solar energy for providing domestic hot water. Shows an experiment to prove how easily the sun heats water, and how the heat can be trapped. Shows swimming pool...

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  8. Heat Below (1984 Film)

    Director
    Alan Ross
    Producer
    Robert Keen
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An introduction to the exploitation of two forms of geothermal energy in the UK (aquifers and the hydrofracturing of hot dry rocks) as sources of hot water for space heating and other low temperature process...

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  9. Installation Design, Planning and Verification (1993)

    Subject
    Engineering; FE
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 59 minutes), subscription only

    A five-part video looking at the electrical installation in a new leisure centre. Part 1 examines the role of the installation designer and some of the planning considerations. Part 2 examines different...

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  10. Victorian House Technology (2010)

    Subject
    Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £75.00

    Victorian Britain was a time of rapid social and economic change. In this buoyant climate, new technologies were developed for the supply of water, for sanitation, better lighting and heating and these had a...

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