The SLL Young Lighter 2025 presents her award-winning project on biologically appropriate lighting for healthier sleep in childhood
Author: Cathy King
Redefining with retrofit: CIBSE’s Building Performance Champion
The University of Auckland’s B201 is one of the world’s most sustainable academic buildings. Andy Pearson explores how CIBSE’s 2026 Building Performance Champion used deep retrofit and building services engineering to transform the 1970s campus
Home front: EPC reform proposals
While CIBSE broadly supports the government’s proposals for reforming Energy Performance Certificates, Julie Godefroy says relying on standardised assumptions for fabric energy efficiency misses an opportunity to monitor real-world outcomes
Storing up trouble: flexible technologies closing energy peak gaps
The UK’s net zero transition depends on solving the ‘five peaks challenge’ to balance energy supply and demand, according to a new report. Alex Smith discovers how flexibility and thermal storage could help unlock a low-cost, decarbonised Grid
Building Performance Award winners 2026
The projects, products and people setting the benchmarks for excellence in building services engineering