Pushing the cooling limit: CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group

The limits of passive cooling, healthy learning environments and mitigating overheating were the core subjects of a topical summer event hosted by the CIBSE Natural Ventilation…

August 2025

Getting it right: simulation tool for integrating environmental design

A new integrated simulation tool aims to close the gap between architectural form-making and environmental performance at the earliest stages of design. Joel Callow, founding…

July 2025
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Making compliance work smarter: AI tools for building regulations

A new AI Platform aims to solve the 'information crisis' in building services engineering. Dr Carl-Magnus von Behr explains how sector-specific AI tools can help…

July 2025

Hot-water boost to heat network efficiency

Jacobs has designed a Generation 4.5 heat network that uses an innovative boost electrode to deliver domestic hot water, allowing the system to operate efficiently…

July 2025

Gateway to failure: building safety flaws uncovered

The Building Safety Regulator has published a case study that demonstrates some of the failures that are causing 70% of all designs to be rejected…

July 2025

Departure from the norm: digital optimisation at Sydney Airport

By harnessing advanced analytics and machine learning, A.G. Coombs Group and Exergenics delivered major energy savings in the chiller systems at Sydney Airport, at minimum cost.…

July 2025
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Clearing the smoke: firesafe materials in shafts

Gypsum-based systems may be wrongly specified for smoke shafts in high-rise buildings, as they are not tested for critical pressure and leakage conditions. Alex Smith…

July 2025

Weathering the heat: CIBSE Weather Data

CIBSE’s latest Weather Data Set enables designers to much more accurately model potential overheating in their buildings, helping them to provide comfortable spaces with minimum…

July 2025

Air levels: passing the embodied carbon test

A review of a hybrid and active ventilation system in a secondary school aims to highlight the embodied carbon impacts of choosing one ventilation strategy…

May 2025

Heat in transition: decarbonisation of heating

Experts laid out the case for accelerating the move from gas boilers to heat pumps at the CIBSE Decarbonisation of Heating and Cooling conference last…

May 2025
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