News from the CIBSE Journal

Industry news and more from
the Chartered Institution of
Building Services Engineers

14 June 2024

Welcome to CIBSE Journal’s second newsletter of the month, which features articles from the latest issue of the Journal plus more industry news and the latest job opportunities. This week, CIBSE welcomed Fiona Cousins FCIBSE as its new President. In her Presidential Address, Cousins urged the industry to ‘reimagine’ building performance and put more emphasis on occupant wellbeing, air quality, acoustic performance, and resilience to climate change. Look out for an interview with Fiona in next month’s CIBSE Journal.

Features

Case study: Manchester’s garden of Eden

Wellbeing is at the core of Manchester’s Eden building, which features the biggest green wall in Europe and has been designed to ensure tenants have the potential to achieve Well Certification. Andy Pearson finds out how wellbeing and sustainability were baked into the design

‘Asking the right questions’: meeting building safety requirements

As chair of the new Industry Competence Steering Group, Hanna Clarke has a crucial role to play in making sure the construction sector comes together to improve competency and meet the requirements of the Building Safety Act. Alex Smith speaks to the artist-turned-safety-expert with a painter’s eye for detail

The urban emergency: addressing environmental quality

Designers must take a holistic approach to the urban environment, say members of the UK Urban Environmental Quality working group, who explain how elements such as wind, water and the urban form can be addressed to optimise air quality and thermal comfort

News digest

Political parties set out stalls on energy efficiency

Labour Party's manifesto outlines Warm Homes Plan while Tories pledge funding for the energy efficiency voucher scheme

Fiona Cousins takes over as CIBSE President

Arup regional chair urges Members to 'reimagine' building performance at Presidential address

Number of women in engineering falls

CLC urges mandatory retrofit training

CP1 Heat Networks: Code of Practice now freely available

Voices

Putting people first: lighting for wellbeing

How do we balance wellbeing, efficiency and cost when designing and commissioning commercial lighting? Whitecroft Lighting’s Tim Bowes says cutting carbon shouldn’t be at the expense of occupants’ welfare

CIBSE news

CIBSE sells Balham head office

Move is major step in plan to relocate Institution to Central London

Guide targets embodied carbon in logistics sector

CIBSE collaborated with Amazon and Introba on new TM65.3 document

Papers wanted for Technical Symposium

Latest CIBSE group will focus on workplace ventilation issues

Sponsored content

The vital role water quality plays within HVAC systems

The second Badger Meter video series with our experts Tony Lopez and Stephen Shilcock

Ideal Heating launches ECOMOD natural refrigerant commercial heat pumps

The first of a series next generation ECOMOD heat pumps released this year

Lighting a way to workplace wellbeing

Understanding the link between well-designed lighting systems and occupant comfort and wellbeing is key, says Tamlite's Debbie-Sue Farrell

Take part in Journal survey on overheating

The short survey devised by Zehnder aims to understand how designers consider overheating

Jobs

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Competitive salary | Hybrid

Associate Principal - Decarbonisation lead

Competitive salary | Hybrid

Building Services Design Engineer - Mechanical

£45-60k | West Kent

Building Services Manager

£49,278 per annum plus £6652 per annum London Weighting | London (Greater)

Intermediate Electrical Engineer

To £48,000 + benefits | Battersea, London, SW11

CPD programme

Module 233: Variable geometry chilled beams for efficient variable air volume (VAV) systems

This module explores the opportunities offered by the new generation of VAV beams

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