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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
Made to measure: using digital twins to calculate heating demand in a Sussex village
A digital twin of an East Sussex village is being created by Buro Happold to assess how demand for heating and electric vehicle charging will…
January 2022
Work-light balance: key changes to workplace lighting guidance
The most influential guide to lighting the workplace has had its first update for a decade. Helen Loomes outlines the key changes
January 2022
Panel gains: supplementing heat pumps with solar panels
Incorporating solar energy arrays in district energy networks powered by heat pumps has the potential to reduce carbon emissions, but by how much and at…
January 2022
Eyes on energy: Carbon Intelligence’s award-winning data analysis platform
Building Performance Awards winner Carbon Intelligence has helped its clients save more than 17,000 tonnes CO2e from 2019 to 2010, while readying buildings for safe reoccupation…
December 2021
Breathing space: managing and assessing indoor air quality
New guidance designed to assess and improve indoor air quality has been published by the Institute of Air Quality Management, with input from CIBSE. Co-authors…
December 2021
Black to the future: BDP’s ‘hygge’ office lighting design
There has been a shift to lower light levels and use of darkness in the workplace, according to BDP’s Colin Ball, who cites the refurbished…
December 2021
How the Orkney Islands transitioned to heat pumps
Orkney Islands Council has been installing heat pumps in schools and public buildings for more than 15 years in a bid to decarbonise heating and…
December 2021
Perfecting Passivhaus: Max Fordham’s experience of the fabric-first building method
Max Fordham has been designing Passivhaus projects for nine years, including two very different housing projects that won the residential CIBSE Building Performance Award in…
December 2021
Dark matters: SLL’s Guide to protecting the night time environment
The SLL has published its first, full-blown lighting guide on illumination and the night-time environment. Co-author Benedict Cadbury summarises the new LG 21: Guide to protecting…
December 2021
Embodied energy: the whole picture
New CIBSE research shows that embodied energy in heating and hot-water systems accounts for up to 25% of a dwelling’s whole-life embodied carbon. Elementa Consulting’s…
October 2021
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