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Sound of success – acoustic design in music schools

October 2016

Creating the right acoustic environment in a performance space is a painstaking task that requires a multidisciplinary approach. Liza Young speaks to the team behind a new University of St Andrews music centre

Prevention or cure – legionella prevention in heat networks

There are two options when it comes to safeguarding low-temperature district heating systems from legionella – safe design or sterilisation treatments. Xiaochen Yang, Hongwei Li and Svend Svendsen, from the Technical University of Denmark, look at the options

Building on the past: celebrating 40 years of CIBSE

September 2016

From the miners’ strikes and oil crises of the 1970s, to the ‘boom and bust’ of the 1980s and technological advances in the 2000s, the UK’s industrial landscape has evolved radically over the past four decades. Liza Young asks former CIBSE presidents how building services has changed since the Institution began in 1976

We need leaders with tenacity to direct this transformation

Patrick Bellew on how the challenges of urbanisation will be met in the next four decades

We should not sit idly by when the thermodynamics of the planet are being disrupted by uninformed attitudes

Max Fordham reflects on how the challenges of urbanisation will be met in the next four decades

The art of cooling – services design at the Tate Modern extension

Its façade is not the only thing that’s cutting edge about the new Tate Modern extension – it uses water from the gravel below to cool and heat the galleries inside. Andy Pearson explains the innovative strategy

Primary evidence – primary schools from 1976 and 2016 go head-to-head

School design has changed fundamentally over the past 40 years, but have results improved in terms of energy use? IES’ Colin Rees models two primary schools from 1976 and 2016 to find out what impact advances in materials, systems and IT have had on energy consumption