《建筑类专业英语》每册16个单元，每个单元一篇正课文，两篇副课文，每个单元平均2000个词，三册48个单元，总共约有十万个词，相当于原版书三百多页。要培养较强的阅读能力，读十万词的文献，是起码的要求。如果专业课教师在第六和第七学期，在学生通过学习本教材已经掌握了数百个专业科技词汇的基础．上，配合专业课程的学习，再指定学生看一部分相应的专业英语科技文献，那将会既促进专业课的学习，又提高英语阅读能力，实为两得之举。

向阳编写的《建筑类专业英语(暖通与燃气第2册高等学校试用教材)》为第二册。

本书按国家教委颁布的《大学英语专业阅读阶段教学基本要求》规定组织编写的专业英语教材。向阳编写的《建筑类专业英语(暖通与燃气第2册高等学校试用教材)》包括通风、供热、燃气工程、锅炉设备、制冷工程、热工仪表等概述性的内容及新技术的发展概况。全书安排16个单元，每单元除正课文外，还有两篇阅读材料，均配有必要的注释。正课文还配有词汇表和练习，书后附有总词汇表、参考译文和练习答案，语言难度大于第一册，还对科技英语翻译技巧作了简要说明，并增加例句和翻译练习题。《建筑类专业英语(暖通与燃气第2册高等学校试用教材)》可供本专业学生三年级下学期使用，也可作有关专业人员自学英语之用。

UNIT ONE

Text New Areas of Gas Consumption

Reading Material A Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)

Reading Material B Coal-related Gases

UNIT TWO

Text Reaction Kinetics

Reading Material A Prospects for Coal Gasification

Reading Material B High Btu Gasification

UNIT THREE

Text Fundamentals of Industrial Ventilation

Reading Material A Comfort Ventilation

Reading Material B Roof Ventilators

UNIT FOUR

Text Similarity and Experimental Methods

Reading Material A Environmental Controls of Workplace

Reading Material B Scale Model Measurement

UNIT FIVE

Text Natural Ventilation Fields of Application

Reading Material A Temperature Distribution in Hot Shops

Reading Material B Ventilation of Green Houses

UNIT SIX

Text Dust Formation

Reading Material A Propagation of Gases and Vapours in Indoor Air

Reading Material B Special Laboratory Hoods

UNIT SEVEN

Text Air Douches

Reading Material A Air Curtains

Reading Material B Ventilated Chambers

UNIT EIGHT

Text Comfort and Discomfort

Reading Material A Ceiling Heating

Reading Material B Underfloor Heating

UNIT NINE

Text Heating by Steam and High-pressure Hot Water

Reading Material A Reduce Transmission Heat losses through Walls

Reading Material B Non-metallic Hot Water Distribution Piping

UNIT TEN

Text Efficiency Is Fashionable Again

Reading Material A Past Experience and Design Criterion of District Heating

Reading Material B Load Diversity Factor

UNIT ELEVEN

Text Network Planning

Reading Material A The Industrial Cogeneration

Reading Material B The Diaphragm Tank

UNIT TWELVE

Text Thermal Expansion of Piping and Its Compensation

Reading Material A Comeback of an Energy Oldtimer

Reading Material B Prefabricated Rigid Pipe-in-pipe System

UNIT THIRTEEN

Text Smoke Tube Economic Boiler

Reading Material A Stoichiometric Combustion of Oil Fuels

Reading Material B Furnace and Boiler

UNIT FOURTEEN

Text Water Treatment

Reading Material A Some Selected Properties of Coal Components

Reading Material B Refuse Incineration-generation of Heat

UNIT FIFTEEN

Text Refrigeration

Reading Material A Refrigerant Evaporators

Reading Material B Corrosion Prevention

UNIT SIXTEEN

Text Thermocouple Thermometry

Reading Material A Venturi Water

Reading Material B Pitot Measurements of Dust

Appendix I Vocabulary

Appendix II Translations for Reference

Appendix III Key to Exercises