As the built industry moves towards digital delivery, Liza Young finds out how Skanska used BIM Level 2 in the design and construction of The Monument Building in London
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Time to head west?
Hywel Davies weighs up reports on the effectiveness of energy efficiency schemes in the UK and US
Upholding a reputation: CIBSE Technical Symposium 2016 highlights
Scotland is renowned for engineering excellence and this was in abundance at the sixth Technical Symposium, held at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University last month. Alex Smith and Liza Young report on some of the key papers presented at the event
Data gets serious: property firms use data to root out HVAC issues
Software that analyses services data is helping to slash the energy bills of UK’s leading property companies by 10-30%. Better Building Partnership’s Chris Botten explains how
Registered delivery: Nottingham Trent University retrofit
Nottingham Trent University has successfully integrated a biomass boiler and district heating system in a challenging retrofit project involving a neglected Victorian register office. This triumph scooped Commercial Project of the Year for the university engineering team at the 2016 CIBSE Awards. Andy Pearson reports
Making procurement work with Passivhaus
Architype’s Elrond Burrell on ensuring design-and-build works with Passivhaus
Fitness fanatics – Arboreal Architecture’s Clapham retrofit
Arboreal Architecture was awarded Residential Project of the Year at the CIBSE Awards for its forensic approach to a domestic retrofit in Clapham. Andy Pearson looks at how a deep understanding of building physics enabled the design team to maximise performance
What the Budget means for building services
The Chancellor’s 2016 budget covered other measures besides welfare. Hywel Davies reviews the announcement for those aspects that may be of interest to building services
Learning without limits – University of Cambridge Primary School
The UK’s first university training primary school – built for the University of Cambridge – incorporates a groundbreaking design that has created a space where learning has no limits. Liza Young talks to the design team
A lesson in Passivhaus – award-winning Wilkinson Primary School
Lessons learned from previous Passivhaus projects have earned Wilkinson Primary School energy reductions of around 90% compared with CIBSE benchmarks, plus a coveted CIBSE award. Andy Pearson reports