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Soft landings need hard graft
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For some, the term soft landings has become
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synonymous with post-occupancy evaluations
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Senior Sales Executive and Classified Sales: (POEs). But, as the report suggests, the process
Leon Dominion
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T
he arrival of the summer holiday
season in Britain has, depending on
your point of view, been either good or
bad for the industry. In the run-up to involves a lot more than this. In the launch issue
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the parliamentary recess, ministers issued a of CIBSE Journal, in February this year, an article
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flurry of policy documents, most of which can by Bill Bordass of the Useable Buildings Trust
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called for a “new professionalism” in building
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(see pages 6 and 14). So, for those of you who services aimed at moving POEs from “post-
For CIBSE
must attend to the minutiae of such publications, mortem to life support”. Soft Landings Framework,
Publishing Co-ordinator: Nicola Golledge
the bad news is there are a lot of pages to be co-written by Bordass, provides practical advice
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Email: ngolledge@cibse.org downloaded and pored over in the summer heat on how project teams can adopt this approach.
Editorial advisory panel
and rain (just add the pile to the Part L and F But, to make it happen, teams and their clients
Laurence Aston, Director of Mechanical
Engineering, Morgan Professional Services
consultations recently produced). will need to embed this thinking at the early
David Clark, Partner, Max Fordham
Among these latest announcements, we didn’t procurement stage, and then be committed to
Consulting Engineers
Patrick Conaghan, Partner, Hoare Lea quite get a final definition the longer-term monitoring
Consulting Engineers
David Hughes, Building Services Consultant,
of zero-carbon homes,
MTT Consulting
but we are now closer to it,
Authorities
and review of the buildings’
performance. So, while a
Philip King, Director, Hilson Moran
Chani Leahong, Senior Associate,
and are promised a final should significant step forward, the
Fulcrum Consulting
statement later this year.
Stephen Lisk, President, The Society of Light
make soft landings
Framework is one stage 0n a
and Lighting
Also crucial are policies long and difficult journey.
Professor John Swaffield, CIBSE Past
President
aimed at giving a major
a precondition of
So what needs to happen
Ged Tyrrell, Managing Director,
boost to renewables. The
Tyrrell Systems
awarding
next? Those professionals
Ant Wilson, Director, AECOM money and initiatives
Morwenna Wilson, Graduate Engineer, Arup contracts.
and bodies involved in the soft
that are being pledged landings work will be looking
Terry Wyatt, Consultant to Hoare Lea
by ministers – albeit, in to apply it in the real world, and
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