Electrical Design Guide for Commercial Buildings or Strategic Asset Allocation

Electrical Design Guide for Commercial Buildings

Author: William H Clark

With this authoritative, easy-to-follow guide, you can design and specify electrical systems for virtually any commercial building easily, efficiently, and accurately. You'll be able to submit lower bids, foster greater client satisfaction, and encounter fewer problems during construction. Electrical Design Guide for Commercial Buildings shows you step by step how to organize, layout and circuit, and complete the design of electrical power and telephone/communications systems for commercial and industrial buildings. This handy guide gives you all the information and tables you need within a comprehensive step-by-step map of the entire design process. You also get a rich assortment of schematics, sample details, typical floor plans, and model documents, the 10 most-used NEC tables, pro-level tips on energy conservation and cost cutting, and help withÑand even source code forÑfrequently used computer applications. Whether pro or novice, you'll find the key to better, faster, and cheaper electrical design for commercial buildings inside this book.
William H. Clark, II is a registered professional engineer with wide experience in electrical, lighting, mechanical, and structural projects. An expert on energy-efficient materials and designs, he is the author of Retrofitting for Energy Conservation. He is a member of the Technical Calculations Committee for the Illuminating Engineering Society, and a member of IEEE, ASHRAE, and ASME, as well as a member of the board of directors of Engineered Systems magazine. Mr. Clark has also written articles for numerous trade and technical journals, as well as several computer programs to model energy conservation strategies.

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Explains how to design and specify electrical and telecommunication systems for a range of commercial buildings. Emphasis is placed on maximizing economic value to allow for lower bidding. Chapters focus on such topics as phase diagrams, power and signals circuiting, power distribution, the visual environment, motors, transformers, load control, and the use of CAD programs. A basic knowledge of electrical devices is assumed. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors

Author: John Y Campbell

This volume provides a scientific foundation for the advice offered by financial planners to long-term investors. Based upon statistics on asset return behavior and assumed investor objectives, the authors derive optimal portfolio rules that investors can compare with existing rules of thumb.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
1	Introduction	1
2	Myopic Portfolio Choice	17
3	Who Should Buy Long-Term Bonds?	48
4	Is the Stock Market Safer for Long-Term Investors?	88
5	Strategic Asset Allocation in Continuous Time	120
6	Human Wealth and Financial Wealth	162
7	Investing over the Life Cycle	195
	References	226
	Author Index	241
	Subject Index	249