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Bursary winner announced

Rebecca Warren from SKM, Manchester, has been announced as the winner for CIBSE’s 2010 Ken Dale Travel Bursary. Warren plans to use the bursary to research ‘Energy Solutions in Low Carbon Communities’ in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, and will report her findings to the CIBSE Council in October 2010. The bursary enables CIBSE members to travel and research areas of particular interest and application to the challenges facing the institution.

Lighting awards open

Entries are now open for the Irish Lighter and Irish Young Lighter awards, sponsored by Enlighten. The awards are open to all building services professionals, with Society of Light and Lighting and the Institution of Lighting Engineers’ members particularly encouraged to participate. Projects must be located in Ireland, while submissions based on lighting research will also be accepted. Winners will be announced in September and will receive €1,000. Each runner-up will be presented with €500. For details on how to enter, visit www.cibseireland.org Preliminary extracts need to be received by 14 June.

Undergraduate Award 2010

Entries are now open for this year’s CIBSE Undergraduate Award 2010, sponsored by Hays Building Services. The award, with a first prize of £500, and runner-up prize of £100, is open to all in their final year of BSc, BEng, MEng or MSc training and provides a great opportunity to get recognised at a national level.

Visit www.cibseyoungmembers.

co.uk/news/awards for more. Closing date: 31 July 2010.

Low Carbon Yacht Rally

The Southern Region Low Carbon Yacht Rally will take place on 26 June in Portsmouth. Those working in building services are challenged to round the Nab Tower using only renewable energy. Dinner to follow.

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Low carbon heroes and the BBC’s ‘Big Bang’

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CIBSE, together with SummitSkills, the building

services Sector Skills Council, attended the Big Bang: UK Young Scientist and Engineers Fair, in March. The CIBSE-SummitSkills stand

was themed around Low Carbon Heroes, with visitors being able to play the online Summit Holiday Village game, meet and talk to practising CIBSE members, and pick up the coveted ‘I’m a Low Carbon Hero’ stickers. The three-day educational fair, organised by Engineering UK, was aimed at nine- to 19-year- olds and had more than 22,500 visitors. The event also hosted the National Science and Engineering Competition, as well as including shows from Sky television’s

Brainiac, BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory and the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

CIBSE YEN (Young Engineers

The CIBSE stand attracted the attention of many youngsters on the day.

Network) member Louis Fifield, a student at Loughborough University who helped on the stand, said she enjoyed the experience: ‘It was fun talking to the younger kids and interesting to talk to the older ones about building services. ‘I found that a lot of the older

First person joins new

Energy Management register

Christopher Evans has become the first person to join the CIBSE Low Carbon Consultant Energy Management register after passing the exam at the end of the new BSEN 16001 training course. The register is for those

professionals who wish to demonstrate their competency in implementing a fully compliant and certifiable energy management

system, meeting the requirements of EN 16001, in either their own workplace or for others. BSEN 16001 provides a framework for an organisation to improve its energy efficiency and ultimately reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. To find out more visit www.

cibseenergycentre.co.uk or www. cibsetraining.co.uk/energyassessor

Training and development

Submissions

The closing dates for annual submissions to be considered at the July and September 2010 Training and Development Panel meetings are 8 June and 7 September respectively. Training submissions, queries

and employers’ enquiries and applications for approved training schemes should be made to Parvin Begum, training and development administrator, on 020 8772 3612 or

email pbegum@cibse.org

CPD Directory update

To be added to the Directory of CPD Course Providers, contact Parvin Begum on 020 8772 3612 or

email pbegum@cibse.org

We also accept applications

for online courses and we will welcome more e-learning applications. A concessionary rate is available

for entries of the following categories: • Academic institutions; • Not-for-profit organisations

offering free or non-profit training courses; • Sole traders who are members of CIBSE and offering free or non profit training courses; and • Sole traders who are members of CIBSE and the training business amounts to less than five per cent of their annual turnover. For more information on

training and development, visit the IPD CPD section of the CIBSE website, which can be found

at www.cibse.org

students were not aware of the opportunities they have open to them in building services. It was great to be able to share with them some ideas of what they could do with their future career.’ The 2011 event will be held at the Docklands Excel arena. For more,

contact aringguth@cibse.org

Christopher Evans... number one.

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