Pig production is a highly competitive business which demands increasingly intensive methods and innovative thinking. Good environmental design and management is essential to combine profitability and high productivity with animal health and welfare. The book, a source book and reference designed for students, pig farmers and farm building consultants, sets out the principles of environmental design and management for intensive pig production systems in whichever part of the world these may occur. It explains the basic principles leading to the choice of housing and includes practical recommendations to show how future requirements should be planned.