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News in brief
Schools may turn deaf
No 10 joins CIBSE campaign
The Prime Minister’s Office at
ear to acoustics tests
10 Downing Street has joined
CIBSE’s 100 Hours of Carbon sources below the limits, so services
Clean Up campaign. The n
Schools could still miss out an announcement by Children’s
on the new compulsory Minister Delyth Morgan. It will engineers will undoubtedly find
drive aims to raise awareness acoustics tests recently announced mean that no funding will be themselves needing to be confident
of actions organisations can by government if they do not fall signed off for a BSF building project that the design will work on site.’
easily take to reduce the carbon under the Building Schools for the without a commitment to having The National Deaf Children’s
emissions of their buildings and Future (BSF) programme. the £6,000 acoustic test. Society originally mounted a
significantly reduce the cost of Peter Rogers, chairman of the It is part of a package of campaign for compulsory testing,
their energy bills. Building Acoustics Group for the measures to improve acoustics in fearing that acoustic designs were
www.100hours.co.uk Institute of Acoustics, believes schools and ensure that all children, not making it through to site,
there is a hole in the plan to test the particularly those with hearing leaving hearing impaired pupils with
Partners for BRE Scotland acoustics in all new BSF schools difficulties, have access to a better less than acceptable conditions.
The four consortiums that are to because not all secondaries and learning environment. Prior to this The change comes on top of the
build the homes of the future on academies fall under this funding announcement testing was only a Minimum Design Standard being
BRE’s Scotland Innovation Park mechanism, along with primaries. recommendation. brought into the BSF programme
have been announced. Places He added: ‘There is an apparent According to Rogers, noise to strengthen the design quality of
for People; Powerwall Systems hole in the thinking unless a systems will need to be checked schools, announced by ministers in
with Lovell Homes; Build ICF and clarification is issued soon.’ against the design limits under May. The standard requires that all
Kraft Architecture will construct Acoustic testing will be a duty. He said: ‘The limits required proposed designs for BSF sample
six full-scale demonstrator contractual requirement for all by BB93 can be very stringent to get schools are assessed by advisory
houses, spending more than BSF projects in England, following the combined noise level from all body CABE.
£2m on new technology
investment at the site. The park
will build on the lessons learned
First ‘whole-house’ energy
Willetts
by BRE’s first demonstrator
makeovers announced
Paul
centre in Watford.
Up to 90,000 homes are to receive energy bills, according to DECC.
NHS tender extended ‘whole-house’ energy makeovers, The improvements are expected to
The NHS has delayed publication the Department of Energy and include – where needed – wall and
of its ProCure 21+ shortlist Climate Change (DECC) has loft insulation, boiler replacements
until 11 November, having been confirmed. It announced the and heating controls.
deluged with prequalification move as part of ‘four steps’ to help The projects are part of the
questionnaires. After this date, low-income households deal with £350m Community Energy Saving
up to 15 candidates will be invited high energy bills. Programme (CESP) announced
to tender by 19 January 2010. The makeovers will be completed in 2008. The first 10 areas to be
Contracts will be signed by on a street-by-street basis in low- targeted are Dundee, Glasgow,
21 May next year. income neighbourhoods across Swansea, Preston, Knowsley,
England, Scotland and Wales, Birmingham, Walsall, Blacon and
HFC ban ‘premature’ and should save each household the London boroughs of Southwark
Trip to US awaits
The Heating and Ventilating in the region of £300 per year on and Haringey.
CIBSE/ASHRAE
Contractors’ Association has
warned against the proposed
graduate winner
ban on the use of refrigerants
Make
Judges have crowned Emma
containing hydrofluorocarbons Olsen, Marshall of RPS Gregory as the
(HFCs) in 2011. The HVCA winner of the CIBSE/ASHRAE
Zander
says that for the foreseeable Graduate of the Year Award 2009.
future, HFCs have a vital role to Marshall was presented with her
play in helping users move to certificate by ASHRAE president
more environmentally benign Gordon Holness, after making
alternatives. a five-minute presentation to an
audience of industry experts and a
Housing applications down panel of judges on ‘Energy efficiency
New private housing applications in existing buildings is key to
have remained low in the third creating a sustainable environment’.
quarter of 2009, despite the She will be an ambassador for
reported stabilisation of house
prices. Research published
Renovated M&S site wins office award
CIBSE, flying to Orlando, America,
in January to make a presentation at
by Glenigan revealed that The former headquarters of Marks & Spencer at Baker Street in London ASHRAE’s winter meeting.
housebuilders are still reluctant has won the Refurbished/Recycled Workplace award for London and the The two runners-up were Chris
to submit new projects for South East region, in the British Council of Offices Awards. Make Architects Pountney of Bristol University and
development, preferring instead ‘radically’ renovated the 1950s office building to minimise environmental Francis Li of University College
to build out existing sites. impact and optimise energy efficiency. www.bcoawards.org.uk London.
See cover story, page 26
8 CIBSE Journal November 2009 www.cibsejournal.com
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