With the demand for build-to-rent accommodation accelerating, Aecom’s Garry Burdett outlines a cost model for a typical project
Author: Alex Smith
Facing up to embodied carbon in façades
Façades account for up to 30% of a building’s embodied carbon, which is why the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology is working to produce a new methodology to bring consistency to life-cycle assessments. Buro Happold’s Teni Ladipo reports
Celebrating career pioneers
Kevin Mitchell FCIBSE has called on CIBSE members to inspire the next generation of building services engineers. Alex Smith finds out what makes a great mentor and looks at the value of paying forward
125 years of CIBSE: back to the future
From a small group of dedicated Victorian engineers seeking to increase their knowledge about the science of heating and ventilation to a 21,000-member global organisation that covers every facet of the building services industry – we trace the development of CIBSE over 125 years
CIBSE awards data: fuller disclosure
CIBSE pioneered the disclosure of building performance data in its awards, giving the industry a unique opportunity to compare and share. Julie Godefroy analyses figures from the 2022 entries and reveals how the process will be refined to provide even more valuable data in the 2023 Building Performance Awards
Technical knockout: the 2022 CIBSE Technical Symposium
The CIBSE Technical Symposium returned as an in-person event for the first time since the Covid pandemic, with delegates given plenty to think about over the two days of technical presentations. Phil Lattimore reports
Buildings for the future
Future structures will be carbon negative, climate resilient and integrated into the local community, according to engineers and sustainability experts at Buro Happold. They tell Andy Pearson why the next generation of buildings must be designed today
How desalination affects chiller energy use in the Middle East
When comparing the energy use of air-chilled and water-cooled chillers, power used in desalination plants must be taken into account in places such as the Middle East, say Mott MacDonald’s Jismi Mohammed and Fergus Donaghy
Reforming fire safety
On 18 May, the government announced its Fire Reform White Paper, which is intended to strengthen the fire service and introduces new requirements for risk assessments of dwellings in blocks of flats. The changes include the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, bringing into effect provisions of the Fire Safety Act 2021 requiring fire safety risk […]
Kevin Mitchell interview: inspiring the next generation
To mark CIBSE’s 125th anniversary new President Kevin Mitchell is calling on all Members to share their stories and knowledge to inspire the next generation and attract more engineers into building services