With only days until the deadline for the first phase of the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme, Liza Young finds out the challenges for businesses on the road to certification
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Giant strides – Cisco and Johnson Controls merge BMS and IT
Technology giants Johnson Controls and Cisco have merged the BMS and IT technologies at a Cisco HQ in the UK on a single platform, and are generating savings of £120,000 per building per year. Alex Smith reports
Building Performance Awards 2016 shortlists
Four new project categories in the 2016 Building Performance Awards have attracted a wide range of exemplar case studies, making the judges’ job even tougher this year. Alex Smith had a ringside seat at the shortlisting session to find out which entries made the final round
The home of graphene
The first big breakthrough in graphene took place in Manchester, and now the city has a £61m facility aimed at developing the material for everyday use. CH2M Hill’s Ian MacAskill describes the challenge of designing services for the extraordinarily complex National Graphene Institute
Hall of fame – Liverpool’s St George’s Hall
Neil Sturrock, from CIBSE Heritage Group, explains why Liverpool’s St George’s Hall was the first air-conditioned building
The right tool for the job? Testing the BIM Toolkit
The NBS BIM Toolkit is designed to help organisations reach Level 2 BIM, but how does it perform under test conditions? The CIBSE BIM Group used the beta version on a hypothetical junior school project and found issues that urgently need to be addressed. Tim Dwyer reports
Are our city economies overheating?
High demand for new developments is taxing the minds of consultants and contractors, says Geoffrey Palmer
The net closes in on wasteful landlords
Regulations that will restrict the letting of F- and G-rated properties in England and Wales were passed just before the General Election in May. Hywel Davies explores what the restrictions are and considers what landlords might do in response
Small and mighty – the performance of a fuel cell micro-CHP
Fuel cell micro-CHPs have the potential to make a huge contribution towards the UK’s energy reduction targets, but how do they work in practice? To find out, CIBSE installed a system at its Balham HQ. Alem Tesfai reports
Walking among giants
London’s tall buildings are often designed in isolation, with no thought of how they will affect the surrounding environment. Julie Futcher and Gerald Mills have devised a walk that explains the impact on the city’s climate