Alex Smith, Author at CIBSE Journal

Preventing Covid-19 spreading in buildings

March 2020

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, REHVA experts have published a guidance document on how to operate and use building services to minimise the spread of Covid-19. Alex Smith provides a summary of their findings

Highlights from the ASHRAE Winter Conference

The ASHRAE Winter Conference in Orlando featured more than 300 presentations to nearly 2,800 delegates. Tim Dwyer gives a taste of the engineering zeitgeist, including seminars on growing cannabis and the latest BACnet software to secure controls

Why heat pumps can help and hydrogen can’t

February 2020

With the rapid decarbonising of electricity Joel Gustafsson says the focus must be on heat pumps

Get the house in order

After the submission of the Part L and Future Homes Standard response, CIBSE’s Julie Godefroy outlines the next steps for housing policy

Sizing the opportunity – using software tools to reduce oversizing of HVAC

Integrated design and dynamic modelling can help overcome the problem of HVAC oversizing, says Autodesk’s Steven Butler and Michael Floyd

Zero-GWP cooling using the barocaloric effect

A Cambridge start-up is pioneering a breakthrough technology, based on the barocaloric effect, to develop a radical zero-GWP cooling system. Phil Lattimore reports

Emergency response?

With increasing concern about the pace and scale of climate change, there are growing calls for radical changes to the energy efficiency requirements of building regulations. Hywel Davies considers the challenges of seeking deeper and faster emissions reductions