Exemplar projects with key roles for females help improve engineering’s gender bias. Ahead of International Women in Engineering Day, Andrew Brister talks to three women who are helping deliver a new ‘statement’ building for the London School of Economics
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A Chicago thriller – chiller replacement
Replacing a district cooling system with chillers required a helicopter to lift new plant into a tiny room 200 metres above Chicago. Cyclone Energy Group’s Benjamin Skelton describes the challenge
Model answer
Recent press criticism of modelling has been unfair, say Susie Diamond and Dr Claire Das Bhaumik, but they suggest there is room for improvement
Making the case for evaporative cooling
Evaporative cooling can save energy when used in the right climate. AEI’s James Falconer looks at the technology in Hong Kong, Las Vegas and London, and explains why the cooling method is making a comeback
From first to last – BIM at Birmingham City University
BIM data has been used at Birmingham City University, from concept design to operation. Hoare Lea’s Sadie Adams, Sabrina Gill and Alec Mabbott explain how they extracted full value from the project data
All in it together
Despite survey results to the contrary, Melanie Robinson says that the industry uptake of BIM may be lower than everyone thinks
Beijing’s burning issue – reducing boiler NOx emissions
Tough limits on boiler NOx emissions have been introduced to tackle Beijing’s smog. Dr Gregory Zdaniuk, Joël Moreau and Lu Liu look at one retrofit’s use of water vapour
The value of EPC ratings
With Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards imminent, EPCs will take on added value. Hywel Davies looks at how to avoid inaccurate ratings
What a difference a year makes – for heat networks
With a year’s worth of heat networks’ performance data, Gareth Jones says issues are being rectified pre-handover
A climate of risk
Hywel Davies explores an emerging aspect of legislation: directors’ duties in relation to climate change risks
