NEWS
Industry bodies slam Future Buildings Standard
Lack of ambition in proposals condemned by CIBSE, RIBA and others
Lessons learned: UCL and Buro Happold’s award winning project review guidelines
University College London’s award-winning Post-Project Review guidelines – developed with Buro Happold – ensure lessons from projects on its estate are fed back into a process designed to improve building performance and close the performance gap. Phil Lattimore reports
awards
Smart hot water tanks at the heart of the energy transition
Hot water tanks have the potential to store renewable energy, balance the electricity grid, and reduce carbon emissions and utility bills. Alex Smith speaks to Mixergy to find out how the hot water cylinder has the potential to become the smartest technology in the home
Domestic hot water
Measuring indoor air quality in Passivhaus primary schools
Evidence from a study on indoor air quality in two Passivhaus primary schools reinforces the importance of well thought out ventilation and control of outdoor pollution
indoor air quality
CIBSE roundtable
Delivering smarter homes using offsite building methods
CASE STUDIES
Groundbreaking services design in the best buildings of today
Heating Cambridge’s all-electric Entopia Building
The heating demands of a 1930s Cambridge University building will be reduced to a minimum in a deep energy retrofit that will enable a small, all-air primary heating system to be installed, as Liza Young reports
low carbon
Modelling the world’s tallest indoor waterfall at Jewel Changi Airport
Measuring the impact of thousands of gallons of water cascading through a deeply forested shopping centre was difficult enough for Atelier Ten’s modelling team, without having to consider trains passing through the building’s core. Andy Pearson finds out how they used cutting-edge models to meet the challenge at Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport, and won a CIBSE Building Simulation Award in the process
modelling