USA ASHRAE
He added that CIBSE’s experience in setting up
ASHRAE
an accreditation scheme for energy assessors would be Awards
invaluable in helping ASHRAE meet the “unrealistic”
Three prominent British
deadlines being set by the new government. ASHRAE
engineers were honoured
director-at-large Tim Dwyer said the scheme could be
by ASHRAE during
used to “shame” building operators into doing better.
the Chicago meeting.
Former CIBSE president
“This is not about sticking a label on the wall, but
David Hughes and
about getting buildings to improve,” said Dwyer,
CIBSE/ASHRAE group
a professor at London South Bank University.
chairman Tim Dwyer,
who is also currently
“Operational ratings are the most meaningful data,
serving as director-
and the Display Energy Certifi cate system in the UK is
at-large of the society,
starting to gather that. The economic situation has held
were made Fellows of
ASHRAE. Young engineer
things back so we don’t yet have a good overall picture,
Morwenna Wilson,
but already several high-profi le buildings have received Tim Dwyer: looking to expose energy offenders
who works for Arup,
very poor scores, which hopefully will prompt them to
was presented with a
special award for winning
try and improve.” have implemented energy labelling, but some countries
the CIBSE/ASHRAE
He said that, to make the system work, it was vital that are reluctant to adopt operational ratings because it is
Graduate of the Year
inspections were carried out by expert engineers so that much easier just to do asset ratings,” Dwyer added.
competition.
the recommendations they made for improvements He welcomed news that EPBD was being recast, with
were credible. The ability to benchmark buildings was proposals to extend Display Energy Certifi cates to all
also helpful as it allowed operators to compare their buildings, not just those over 1,000m
2
, but said it was
building with others of a similar type. a “missed opportunity” to beef up ratings. ●
“Energy certifi cates should not be seen as a legislative
headache, but as an opportunity to make energy and,
www.ashrae.org/energylabeling
therefore, cost savings. By 2019, all EU members must
Young engineer’s diary: Morwenna Wilson
Panic on the breakfast fl oor a short speech from ASHRAE president Bill Engineers in ASHRAE) committee meeting.
Jetlag – no problem. A breakfast meeting Harrison, but then the action really started. This time they started even earlier at 7am
at 7.30am on a Sunday in Chicago when They had invited a motivator who announced – what is wrong with these people? Well,
it is minus 20 degrees outside – that’s that at the end of the breakfast we would it seems they are just amazingly keen and
something else. be “changed”. We had to become more committed.
And so I got my fi rst taste of an ASHRAE intimately acquainted with the strangers all Their infectious enthusiasm has stayed
Winter Meeting. Apparently, it is traditional around us and, for the fi rst exercise, we were with me all the way back across the Atlantic
for the Student Breakfast to kick off at this to shake hands and introduce ourselves to and I am determined to exploit it fully by
time and, it being a ”student” meeting, I felt as many people as possible in 30 seconds. using it to transform the work I do as part
rather smug about being on time as I was Mine was the classic British reaction to of the CIBSE Young Engineers’ Network.
pretty confi dent there wouldn’t be anyone this situation. My pulse quickened and panic When I asked groups of young American
else there. set in. Even as a relatively confi dent person, engineers how they felt about their future
Wrong. Walking into the room I was the notion of throwing myself into the path careers, they made it clear they were not
amazed to fi nd a staggering 350 college of hundreds of self-assured US students had fazed. They, like their society, assured me that
students present and correct. In the UK, me questioning whether I was in fact the they were looking forward to the challenges
you’re lucky if half of our students make it breakfast, a “Traditional English” to of delivering a more sustainable built
to a 9am start – and they would just laugh be eaten alive by all. environment. You would have been forgiven
if you suggested a voluntary get-together at I was clearly not alone. Out of for putting this down to typical gung-ho
7.30am on a freezing Sunday. the corner of my eye, I spotted American youthful naïvety in the past, but
Could these really be students, I wondered, some of the more “experienced” now with the “green” pledges of the new
but was soon convinced when the meeting (ie older) CIBSE members US government to support them, there
opened with loud introductions as each sneaking out of the back really does not seem to be anything
college performed their chant or song with door and leaving me standing in their way. And we will
increasing gusto, complete with feet on to my fate. all be the better for that.
chairs or, in some more extreme cases, feet
on tabletops. The level of the enthusiasm in ‘Infectious’ Morwenna Wilson is the current
the room was, therefore, close to the ceiling My second experience CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of
and despite my body telling me to think of young US engineers the Year. She is also on the
better of it I couldn’t help but be caught up during the conference committee of the CIBSE Young
in it all. There were prizes to be given and was the YEA (Young Engineers’ Network
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