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IESVE and Pollination join forces to streamline BIM-to-BEM interoperability
The partnership is a game-changer for modellers that use Revit or Rhino to more easily integrate IESVE’s…
May 2025
Ecobat battery grows its ESS business
Ecobat Battery expands into the energy storage system (ESS) sector
May 2025
Beware double standards: pressurisation design and expansion vessel sizing
There are two standards for pressurisation design and expansion vessel sizing, which is causing confusion that threatens performance, says Spirotech’s Steve Simmonds
January 2025
Driving for efficiency: analysing HVAC performance
By monitoring and analysing the performance of motor drives in HVAC equipment, ABB’s Richard Gee says building managers can identify opportunities for energy efficiency quick wins
January 2025
British Land’s heat pump retrofit at York House
The adoption of energy management standards has been key to enabling British Land to target net zero carbon by 2030 and begin the energy transition…
January 2025
CIBSE head office: first steps to decarbonisation
Providing value for staff and members while demonstrating an affordable path to net zero is at the heart of the strategy for CIBSE’s new office,…
January 2025
Light2Perform: treading a circular path
As the lighting industry increasingly focuses on circularity and repair, an expert panel at Light2Perform discussed opportunities and challenges
November 2024
Renewing tradition: installing PVs on King’s College Chapel
Grade I-listed King’s College Chapel, in Cambridge, is one of the UK’s most revered buildings, so a new photovoltaic array on the roof had to…
November 2024
Doing more with less: interview with SLL president Dan Lister
Lighting design should prioritise people-orientated lighting solutions while reducing embodied and operational carbon, according to SLL president Dan Lister, who tells Molly Tooher-Rudd that lighters…
November 2024
Hello darkness, my old friend: award-winning lighting
How three award winners used discreet lighting to highlight heritage structures
November 2024
Cutting carbon: Whitecroft Lighting’s C2C approach
Whitecroft Lighting won a CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award by adopting lean manufacturing and design to cut life-cycle carbon from its products by up to 46%.…
November 2024
A guide to trustworthy heat pump design
A new Passivhaus Trust guide to air-to-water heat pumps aims to highlight some of the complex aspects of design that are sometimes missed by experienced…
November 2024
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