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

28 March 2025

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The AI revolution may turbocharge economic growth and improve living standards according to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but for designers of the infrastructure supporting it, there are big challenges around sustainability and resilience.

We speak to engineers who are tackling the exponential rise in energy required to power data centre servers and cool systems, and focus on a large-scale project in West London that will pipe data centre waste heat to thousands of new homes.

We also have a case study on CIBSE’s 2025 Building Performance Champion, the Entopia Building in Cambridge.

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Features
Rewriting the rules of retrofit: the Entopia building

Rewriting the rules of retrofit: the Entopia building

The Entopia Building sets a new benchmark for sustainable retrofits. Andy Pearson explores how CIBSE’s 2025 Building Performance Champion used a fabric-first approach to cut whole life carbon by 84%

Power struggle: data centre design in the age of AI

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

Turning waste into warmth: how data centres can heat our cities

Turning waste into warmth: how data centres can heat our cities

Aecom has helped develop a vast energy centre in West London that will pipe waste heat from data centres into 10,000 new homes and existing businesses via a heat network. The company’s Asad Kwaja looks at the ‘architecture’ behind the design

Passivhaus case study: Woodmill High School and St Columba’s RC High School

Passivhaus case study: Woodmill High School and St Columba’s RC High School

The UK’s largest Passivhaus education building has operational energy use of just 45kWh·m-² per year. Andy Pearson looks at how the project team optimised performance and qualified for an outcome-based funding boost

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News digest

Conservatives abandon 2050 net zero target

Don’t rule out hydrogen for heating, say Scottish leaders

University starts work on 39GWh energy centre

Defective ventilation delayed hospital opening

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CIBSE news
Façade Design and Engineering Awards open for entries

Façade Design and Engineering Awards open for entries

Winners of the 10th annual SFE accolades will be announced in London on 5 November

Fujitsu VRF products gain embodied carbon certification

Decarbonisation of Heating and Cooling conference

Bungalow retrofit in focus in BSER&T

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Voices
The ties that bind: CIBSE and ASHRAE's special relationship

The ties that bind: CIBSE and ASHRAE's special relationship

Uncertainty over America’s international relationships may have been the backdrop to the ASHRAE Winter Conference, but CIBSE and its US counterparts continue to work together on key decarbonisation projects

The unintended consequences of fire safety reform

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

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CPD programme
Module 246: Efficient heat pump application for heating and domestic hot water

Module 246: Efficient heat pump application for heating and domestic hot water

This module considers how to ensure heat pump applications efficiently meet demands to deliver heating and domestic hot water at satisfactory temperatures

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Munters dehumidification systems chosen for battery research at University of St Andrews

Munters dehumidification systems chosen for battery research at University of St Andrews

The Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology, at the University of St Andrews, is home to world-leading battery research programmes. Munters designed, installed and commissioned a turnkey battery dry room that includes HVAC plant installation, commissioning, and maintenance

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