From NHS estates to mountain hotels, AI and parametric tools are reshaping how engineers design, collaborate, and drive sustainability across the built environment
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Digital horizons: CIBSE’s vision for accessible, intelligent software tools
The Institution is expanding its digital capabilities to support members and the wider building services industry with smarter, more accessible software
How NABERS UK helped deliver a winning office design
CIBSE Building Performance Award winner Globe Point, in Leeds, is using the NABERS UK standard to ensure that its carbon-busting office design is realised post-occupancy. Andy Pearson speaks to Hoare Lea’s Philip Mannis about the design and assessment tool
Embodied carbon: Amazon’s mission to measure more
As the pressure to reduce embodied carbon intensifies, Molly Tooher-Rudd finds out why Amazon was happy to share in-house knowledge and contribute to CIBSE’s TM65.3, the methodology for uncovering hidden emissions in logistics buildings
Day One at the CIBSE- IBPSA-England Technical Symposium
Professor Tadj Oreszczyn opened the CIBSE IBPSA-England Technical Symposium at UCL last month. Molly Tooher-Rudd reports from day one
The unintended consequences of fire safety reform
Changes to fire safety rules are having unintended consequences that are stifling design and stalling delivery of high-rise flats, according to a new report by fire engineers and developers, who offer their proposals for improving the system
Power struggle: data centre design in the age of AI
AI is driving an exponential demand for data centres, which is leading to surging energy requirements, rising cooling demand and grid limitations. Molly Tooher-Rudd finds out how engineers are responding to sustainability challenges in the sector
No-brainer: creating a competence framework for sustainability
Developed as part of CIC’s Climate Action Plan, the Competence Framework for Sustainability lays the foundation for industry-wide standards that embed sustainability into the roles of professionals. The Edge’s Simon Foxell explains
Model future: the Home Energy Model
The model set to replace SAP for home energy assessments is designed to work dynamically with new-era technologies such as energy storage, advanced control systems and dynamic tariffs. Sustenic’s John Henderson and Jose Ortiz FCIBSE highlight the potential of the Home Energy Model
Building Performance Award winners 2025
CIBSE has revealed the buildings, products and people that are setting the benchmarks for excellence in building services engineering
