Technical
April 2022
Overheating warning: how Part O aims to address overheating
Approved Document O was published in December, and is aimed at reducing overheating risk in new residential buildings. Inkling’s Susie Diamond says the new regulations…
April 2022
Overheating
Oversizing matters: Effect of boiler oversizing on efficiency
With energy prices soaring and carbon reduction a priority, ensuring heating systems are specified to operate as efficiently as possible is essential. In this article,…
April 2022
Boiler
Housing estate regeneration sets the standard for collaborative whole life carbon assessments
Contractor Bouygues UK engaged Darren Evans to work collaboratively on assessing the whole life carbon of 230…
December 2022
Products & services
Meeting Bath and North East Somerset Council’s sustainability targets
Darren Evans provided consultancy and calculation services to support Curo Enterprise with the new development
October 2022
Products & services
Greening the City: installing heat pumps at Citigen’s central London energy centre
The City of London is adding heat pumps and boreholes to its Farringdon energy centre and hopes to encourage more commercial buildings to plug into…
April 2022
Heat network
The dash from gas: converting schools from gas to heat pumps
With the need to switch from fossil fuels to renewables becoming ever more pressing, one heat pump retrofit schools project in Yorkshire could be the…
March 2022
Education
Tightening up: TM23 Testing building for air leakage
The latest update to the Building Regulations includes reference to a new CIBSE TM23 guide on airtightness testing. Julie Godefroy reviews the new TM, which includes…
March 2022
Housing
Optimising ventilation in the post-Covid classroom
To optimise classroom indoor air quality, schools need to take a holistic approach to natural ventilation and air cleaning technology, argues CIBSE’s Chris Iddon
March 2022
indoor air quality
Radical departure? Retrofitting for heat pumps
With the pressure on homeowners to replace domestic gas boilers with heat pumps, it is essential that engineers ensure that existing radiators and pipework are…
March 2022
heat pumps
Decarbonomics: Delivering on the net zero promise
Organisations are setting ambitious 2030 targets in response to the climate emergency, but how do they decarbonise property assets in such a short period of…
March 2022
zero carbon
How Britain’s film industry was saved from the London fog
In the early days of cinema, the UK’s biggest studios were in central London, but pervasive fog – ‘pea-soupers’ – was entering film sets and…
March 2022
Air conditioning
Dual purpose: evaporative cooling
Switching between modes in dual evaporative coolers can result in large operational savings, according to a recent B&SERT paper. Tim Dwyer looks at the latest…
March 2022
Cooling
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