VDI manual Heat Technology

VDI Standardisation Work - Principles and procedures

Prevention of damage by means of corrosion and scale formation in warm-water-heating-systems

Prevention of damage in water heating installations - Scale formation and waterside corrosion

Prevention of damage in water heating installations - Corrosion by fuel gases

Building installations for district heating

Requirements for technical equipment rooms - Technical bases for planning and execution

Requirements for technical equipment rooms - Space for service shafts

Requirements for technical equipment rooms - Heating systems

Economic efficiency of building installations - Fundamentals and economic calculation

Economy calculation of heat consuming installations; operating and economical fundamentals; economy calculation systems

Economy calculation of heat consuming installations; heating installations

Economy calculation of heat-consuming; installations warm water supply

Economy calculation of heat consuming installations; amount of steam in laundries, large kitchens and hospitals

Economy calculation of heat consuming installations; heat pumps

Economy calculation of heat consuming installations; Block heating and power station

Economic efficiency of building installations - Energy demand for heating, cooling, humidification and dehuminification

Economic efficiency of building installations - Calculation of energy requirements for heated and air-conditioned buildings

Economic efficiency of building installations - Energy effort of benefit transfer for water heating systems

Economic efficiency of building installations - Energy effort of benefit transfer for heating drinking water

Economic efficiency of building installations - Energy effort for distribution

Economic efficiency of building services installations - Energy effort for generation

Hints for automation and control equipment in heating and refrigeration systems

Measuring, supervision and control equipment in warm water heating installations

Measurement and calculation method for determining the angle-dependent solar radiation transmission of building enclosures with extended patterns

Preventing freezing of water-carrying pipes

Heat transfer station with water/water heat exchangers for continuous-flow water heating/space heat supply

Hydraulic systems in building services - Hydraulic circuits

Hydraulic systems in building services - Hydraulic circuits - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 2073 Part 1:2014-05

Hydraulic systems in building services - Hydraulic balancing

Hydraulics in building services installations - Trainings

Hydraulics in building services installations - Trainings

Recycling in the building services

Ice sport facilities - Building Services

Energy consumption accounting for the building services - Determination of reimbursable costs of heat generation by CHP systems

Energy consumption accounting for the building services - Determination of reimbursable costs of heat generation by CHP systems - Corrigendum concerning guideline VDI 2077 Part 3.1:2012-11

Energy consumption accounting for the building services - Heat and hot-water supply installations - Cost allocation in connected installations

Energy consumption accounting for the building services - Heat and hot-water supply installations - Cost allocation for solar systems

Energy consumption accounting for the building services - Heat and hot-water supply installations - Cost allocation for solar systems - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 2077 Part 3.3:2016-08

Energy consumption accounting for the building services - Heat and hot-water supply installations - Cost allocation for heat pumps and installations with several energy sources

Energy consumption accounting for the building services - Method for the consideration of heat loss through pipes

Energy consumption accounting for the building services - Method for the consideration of heat loss through pipes - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 2077 Part 3.5:2018-05

Building services in swimming baths - Indoor pools

Building services in swimming baths - Indoor pools - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 2089 Part 1:2023-09

Building services in swimming baths - Efficient use of energy and water

Building installations in swimming baths - Open-air pools

PCM energy storage systems in building services

Functional checking and yield rating of solar thermal systems

Noise control in heating systems

Emission control - Storage and handling of wood pellets at the point of end use - Requirements under environment, health, and safety aspects

Emission control - Storage and handling of wood chips for energy use in the private and commercial sector - Requirements under environmental, health, and safety aspects

Temperature measurement for building automation - Basic principles

Temperature measurement for building automation - Temperature sensors, temperature sensing elements and their measurement parameters

Temperature measurements for building automation - Installation of temperature sensors

Temperature measurement for building automation - Testing of temperature sensors

Environmental meteorology - Discharge conditions for exhaust gases - Small and medium combustion systems and other installations

Environmental meteorology - Meteorological measurements - Radiation

Product data exchange in the building services - Fundamentals

Product data exchange in the building services - Actuators used in building services

Product data exchange in the building services - Combined heat and power generation

Product data exchange in the building services - Electric and gas-fired radiant heaters

Product data exchange in the building services - Pipes, ducts, and fittings

Product data exchange in the building services - Controls and accessories

Product data exchange in the building services - Pressure maintaining devices

Product data exchange in the building services - Heat transfer stations

Product data exchange in the Building Services - General components

Product data exchange in the building services - Systems

Characteristic consumption values for buildings - Fundamentals

Characteristic consumption values for buildings - Characteristic heating-energy, electrical-energy and water consumption values

Characteristic consumption values for buildings - Partial characteristics for thermal energy

Assessment of energy efficiency of buildings and building services - Application of existing techniques

Check of warm-water-heating systems

Acceptance of building installations - Heating

Operation and maintenance of buildings and building installations - Fundamentals

Operation and maintenance of buildings and building installations - Fundamentals - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI-MT 3810 Part 1:2023-03

Operation and maintenance of buildings and building installations - Heating systems

Distribution of energy consumption for heating and warm water supply by combined central heating installations

Refurbishment of heating installations

Home automation technologies - Requirements for electrical installations and building automation and control systems

Building automation and control systems (BACS) - Fundamentals for room control

Building automation; structures, definitions, functions

Building automation (BA) - Interfaces in planning and installation

Building services in listed and historical buildings

Technical building services in memorial buildings - Fundamentals

Monuments and listed buildings - Technical building equipment

Fire protection for buildings - Fundamentals for building services - Terminology, acts, ordinances, technical rules

Fire protection building services - Functions and correlations

Fire protection in building services - Fire protection planning and briefing - Obligations, contents and documentation

Failure analysis - Fundamentals and performance of failure analysis

Failure analysis - Fundamentals, terms, defintions - Procedure of failure analyses

Failure analysis - Failures of metallic products caused by corrosion in aqueous media

Energy consultancy - Energy consultancy process and methods

Energy consultancy - Competence assessment of energy consultants

Principles for the design, construction, and acceptance of combined heat and power plants with internal combustion engines

Solar thermal process heat

Cumulative energy demand (KEA) - Terms, definitions, methods of calculation

Cumulative energy demand - Examples

Energy systems - Combined heat and power - Fundamentals and examples

Energy systems - Combined heat and power - Allocation and evaluation

Energy systems - Combined heat and power - Allocation and evaluation

Energy efficiency of industrial installations - Thermal insulation

Energy efficiency of operational installations - Thermal bridges catalogue

Thermal use of the underground - Fundamentals, approvals, environmental aspects

Thermal use of the underground - Ground source heat pump systems

Thermal use of the underground - Ground source heat pump systems, Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 4640 Part 2:2019-06

Heating systems with heat pumps in single and multi-family houses - Planning, construction, operation

Heating systems with heat pumps in single and multi-family houses - Planning, construction, operation

Heating systems with heat pumps in single- and multi-family houses - Planning, construction, operation - Trainings, examinations, certifications of qualification

Heating systems with heat pumps in single- and multi-family houses - Planning, construction, operation - Training, examinations, certifications of qualification - Integration into university courses and curricula of in-service educational institutions

Application of high-power heat pumps

Calculation of the seasonal coefficient of performance of heat pumps - Electric heat pumps for space heating and domestic hot water

Calculation of the seasonal coefficient of performance of heat pumps - Electric heat pumps for space heating and domestic hot water - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 4650 Part 1:2024-02

Calculation of the seasonal coefficient of performance of heat pumps - Electric heat pumps for space heating and domestic hot water - Corrigendum concerning standard VDI 4650 Part 1:2016-12

Simplified method for the calculation of the annual heating energy ratio and the annual gas utilisation efficiency of sorption heat pumps - Gas heat pumps for space heating and domestic hot water

Calculation of the seasonal coefficient of performance of heat pump systems - Fundamentals, terms, and definitions of multifunctional ventilation units with heat pumps

Reference load profiles of residential buildings for power, heat and domestic hot water as well as reference generation profiles for photovoltaic plants

Design and dimensioning of micro combined heat and power plants

Planning and integration of energy storage systems in energy building systems - Electrical storage

Principles for servicing work on heat and power producers - Fundamentals and notes for the drafting of service contracts from the technical perspective

Principles for servicing work at heat and power producers - Micro-combined heat and power systems

Principles for servicing work on heat and power producers - Gas and oil condensing boilers

Terminology of building services with advices for drafting and presentation of terms and definitions

Terminology of civil engineering and building services

Terminology of civil engineering and building services - Corrigendum concerning guideline VDI 4700 Part 1:2015-10

Terminology of civil engineering and building Services - Addition 1

Terminology of civil engineering and building services - Addition 2

Terminology of civil engineering and building Services - Addition 3

Terminology of civil engineering and building services - Symbols (building services)

Facility Management - Life-cycle-cost-based tender

Water heating installations - Water quality, pressure maintenance, deaeration - Trainings

Planning and dimensioning of the indoor climate (VDI ventilation code of practice)

Pressure maintenance, venting, deaeration - Pressure maintenance

Pressure maintenance, venting, deaeration - Venting and deaeration

Meteorological data for building-services purposes - Non-European climatic data

Meteorological data for the building services - t,x correlations from 1991 to 2005 for 15 climatic zones in Germany

Meteorological data for the building services - t,x correlations and wind statistics for 122 European cities

Solar heating for potable water - Basic principles - System technology and application in residential buildings

Solar heating for potable water - Application in students accomodations, senior citizens' residences, hospitals, swimming baths and camping sites

Protection of Building Services - Flood - Buildings, installations, equipment

Protection of building services - Lightning protection systems and surge protection

Protection for building services - Vandalism or destruction of property

Calculation of transient thermal response of rooms and buildings - Modelling of rooms

Calculation of transient thermal response of rooms and buildings - Modelling of solar radiation

Local energy systems in buildings - Fundamentales and energy storages

Integration of distributed and renewables based energy systems in buildings - Fundamentals - Project planning and execution

Integration of distributed and renewables-based energy systems in buildings - Fundamentals - System selection

Integration of distributed and renewables-based energy systems in buildings - Fundamentals - Fixing of solar modules and solar collectors on buildings

Integration of distributed and renewables-based energy systems in buildings - Thermic systems - Biomass firing systems

Local energy systems in buildings - Fuel cells

Energy conservation by application of variable speed drives (VSD) in building services

Requirements to be met by calculation methods for the simulation of thermal-energy efficiency of buildings and building installations

Data exchange for thermal load calculation of buildings

Economy calculation systems for capital goods and plants

Planning, construction, operation - Contents and format of planning, execution and review documents in the building services

Documentation in the building services (BS) - Contents and format of planning, execution, and review documents

Documentation in the building services - Contents and format of planning, execution and review documents - Requirements to be met by the documentation to satisfy the needs of the FM

Assessment criteria for building services - Fundamentals

Assessment criteria for Building Services - Technical quality for sustainable buildings

Planning and dimensioning of space heating and cooling - Fundamentals

Designing free heating surfaces - Fundamentals - Designing of heating appliances

Fasteners of radiators - Requirements for planning and design

Facility management - Managing of building commissioning - Methods and procedures for building-services installations

Facility management - Technical monitoring of buildings and building services

Prevention of damage in cold and cooling water circuits

Assessing the sustainability of the built environment - Training of professionals

Room book - General requirements and fundamentals

Project engineer - Knowledge profile

Project engineer - Requirements for qualification

Project engineer in projects with external team members - Knowledge profile

Project engineer in projects with external team members - Requirements for qualification