Numerous design and calculation programs offer engineers compliance, efficiency and collaboration. Among these is Bentley System’s...

The flow rate calculation is the basis for all of your water system calculations.

Sizing pipes correctly is critical to the performance of your design. Learn how to do it here.

Efficient design in engineering is crucial. For any given engineering project, there are myriad different decisions and calculations....

Productive engineering teams are the key to designing and delivering high-quality projects. When teams deliver high-quality projects by...

Since its launch back in 1985, Microsoft’s spreadsheet application Excel has gone on to become recognised as the leading program for the...

For decades now, engineers have been relying on rule of thumb and their own prior experience when producing calculations for typical gas...

The UK government recently unveiled its plan to provide 90,000 households with grants to install new heat pumps, but what is a heat pump?

When the flow rate increases, the water pressure decreases. When the flow rate decreases, the water pressure increases.

The aim of this blog is to teach you how to manage the water pressure in a high-rise building's hot water recirculation system.

The Hydraulic Services Design Guide was first published in 2014 and has been updated 4 times since. It is a free resource published by...

This video demonstrates how to design a hot water recirculation system using H2X. Designing a hot water recirculation system can be one...

There are three common methods for domestic water pipe sizing in the UK, as described in the CIBSE/ SoPHE Technical Bulletin 16-01:...

Pipe volume is an important calculation that is commonly used by various members of a project team during the design of a construction...

Flow rate and friction loss in a pipe network system can be difficult to calculate. When the pipe network is in a ring main (also known...

Alarming statistics were discovered in the 'Examination of Building Defects' study completed by Deakin University. Why are defects so...

Technology adoption in the construction industry has led to design iteration becoming a major and complex component of the design phase....

Our mission at H2X is to improve the quality of plumbing designs. When we started our journey, there were two key things we knew we must...

1 - Sizing It is important to size a pressure reduction valve (PRV) to suit the flow rate that passes through it. You should not...

32% of defects found on a construction site are due to a design error. Contractors waste 5% of their revenue fixing these defects. Whilst...