Partnerships between FMs, digital consultants and ventilation suppliers have the potential to achieve smarter systems that increase energy efficiency, while ensuring a safe and healthy indoor environment, says Breathing Buildings’ Louise McHugh
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An engineer’s guide to judging the RIBA Awards
The RIBA Awards celebrate architectural excellence, recognising projects that prioritise innovation, sustainability, and social impact. Mike Burton FCIBSE spoke about his time serving as a judge
Hot and bothered: Zehnder overheating survey
The risk of overheating in buildings is growing significantly as temperatures rise, but a new survey by CIBSE Journal and Zehnder Group UK shows that mitigating the risk is not always a priority in design even though respondents say it’s a hot issue. David Blackman reports
Taking up the President’s challenge
Anastasia Mylona looks at what CIBSE President Fiona Cousins’ groundbreaking white paper might mean for building services engineers
CIBSE President Fiona Cousins: building performance reimagined
New CIBSE President Fiona Cousins is challenging building services engineers to re-evaluate building performance and collaborate with other disciplines. She tells Alex Smith that CIBSE Members should be striving to deliver buildings that meet the needs of society and the natural environment
Holding up a mirror: CIBSE’s climate action plan
Creating a Climate Action Plan that mirrors CIBSE’s will ensure that engineers and organisations are being proactive in taking on the climate emergency. Julie Godefroy is keen to hear your views ahead of the next update in the autumn
Platform for sustainability: Paris Olympics Aquatics Centre
The low carbon, sustainable design of the Paris 2024 Aquatics Centre will help halve the Olympics’ carbon footprint compared with London 2012. Andy Pearson looks at the passive-first design and the lasting legacy of the Games’ only new venue
Low carbon, high safety: fire engineering and embodied carbon
The embodied carbon impact of fire safety measures is relatively unknown. Arup’s Grete Wilson and Dr Emma McIntyre have created a roadmap to establish how engineers can create low carbon designs without compromising fire safety
Keeping on track for 2050 net zero: addressing the challenges
The 2050 vision for net zero will veer off track if the built environment fails to decarbonise. Our roundtable, sponsored by Whitecode Consulting, discussed the challenges facing engineers and what is needed to accelerate change
What’s your archetype? Heat network analysis
The data on heat networks is disparate and inconsistent. Aya H Heggy describes a project that aims to create five archetypes that will allow policy-makers to pinpoint effective decarbonisation strategies