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f there’s only one thing you read in this
issue (apart from what you’re reading now,
of course), it has to be our cover feature on
new entrants to the profession (page 26). looking to throw up new structures; and the
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The simple reason is that, as we approach a very occupants of buildings must be educated in
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climate talks next month make any significant In short, building services professionals must
difference; is a lot more pain in store for the sector push this agenda much harder.
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before the recession eases; will it be slash and burn And, as these young people point out, the
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party gains power? – the young people represented take the sustainability agenda forward. Another
Editorial advisory panel
Laurence Aston, Director of Mechanical
here give us all great hope. They’re well educated, casualty of the current recession is the intake of
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savvy, articulate, ambitious, and very green. building services engineering graduates into
David Clark, Partner, Max Fordham
Consulting Engineers
The six young engineers featured were all sector companies. Building services firms may be
Patrick Conaghan, Partner, Hoare Lea
shortlisted for this forced to squeeze their staffing
Consulting Engineers
David Hughes, Building Services Consultant,
year’s CIBSE/ASHRAE levels, but it is surely extremely
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Philip King, Director, Hilson Moran
Chani Leahong, Senior Associate,
Award. Their final task
are that
fresh talent, which will be
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in the competition was to sorely needed by the industry
Stephen Lisk, President, The Society of Light
and Lighting give a presentation before
this generation of
and the individual firms when
Professor John Swaffield, CIBSE Past
President
the award judges and an
engineers knows
the recession lifts.
Ged Tyrrell, Managing Director,
audience invited from
Tyrrell Systems exactly what needs
First and foremost, both
Ant Wilson, Director, AECOM
the industry. They each policymakers and building
Morwenna Wilson, Graduate Engineer, Arup
had to argue the case
to be done
services professionals must
Terry Wyatt, Consultant to Hoare Lea
that increasing energy
to enhance
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necessarily represent the views of the Chartered Institution And between them they conveyed how little has efficiency and architecture have gained much
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done urgently, to make this happen. In effect, the realities quickly sink in. As one of the six
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February to April 2009
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