CIBSE News News in brief
Graduate entries sought The closing date for this year’s CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of the Year award, sponsored by Baxi Commercial Division, is fast approaching. Entries need to be received by 30 July. Judging will take place on 7 October. The award, which recognises the achievements and potential of young engineers who have graduated in the last two years, offers the winner a trip to the ASHRAE winter conference in Las Vegas.
www.cibseashrae.org
Undergraduate Award 2010 This is your last chance to enter the CIBSE Undergraduate Award 2010. Sponsored by Hays Building Services, the award offers newly graduated students from BSc, BEng, MEng or MSc programmes industry recognition, as well as encouraging academic excellence. The first prize is £500, with a runner-up prize of £100. To enter, simply send a 2,000-word synopsis of your final year project, together with the completed application form, by 31 July 2010.
www.cibseyoungmembers.
co.uk/news/awards
Win a trip to New York This year’s Society of Public Health Engineers ‘Young Engineers Award’, gives teams the chance to win a trip to New York and Niagara Falls. This year’s theme is ‘Innovation in Public Health Engineering’. Teams of up to three, aged 18 to 30, should submit an A3 paper demonstrating their proposed innovation. The deadline is 23 July.
www.cibse.org/sophe
Training and development The closing dates for annual submissions to be considered at the September 2010 Training and Development Panel meeting is 7 September. Training submissions and any queries, plus employers’ enquiries and applications for approved company training schemes, should be sent to Parvin Begum, training and development administrator, on 020 8772 3612 or email
pbegum@cibse.org
New government heralds ‘change of direction’ n
With a new government we can expect some new
policy directions – HIPs (home information packs) have already been replaced. But some policies will continue, with minor variations. New Housing Minister Grant Shapps took little time to confirm his support for ‘zero carbon homes’, and promised to sort out the definition, something which industry representatives, including CIBSE and the Zero Carbon Hub, have already been working towards since the start of the year. Visit
www.communities.gov.uk and go to news releases for more details. Meanwhile, the consultation
on updating the planning policy supplement on adaptation to climate change has closed. CIBSE has responded (see the Knowledge Bank at
www.cibse.org), although
Annual
since the election, it is far from clear how the planning policy will now be delivered. Further consultation may be inevitable. CIBSE’s response noted the potential for the policy’s planning elements to conflict with Building Regulations – a concern CIBSE has raised directly with the Building Regulations team within the Department for Communities and Local Government. And readers with a manufacturing interest may wish to see the (closed) consultation on the introduction of ‘Civil sanctions and cost sharing for the Energy Using Products and Energy Labelling Regulations’. This covers the proposed enforcement regime for requirements introduced under the Energy Using Products Directive. Full proposals are available at
www.defra.gov.uk
Graham Manly stands down
Graham Manly stood down as honorary treasurer of CIBSE at the AGM on 6 May, after four years in the role. Manly has a long record of service to the industry, being a past president of CIBSE, the current president of the HVCA, a board member of SummitSkills, and a former chairman of BSRIA. CIBSE has benefited greatly from his work in modernising the governance of the institution, and from the careful eye he kept on the finances. We are grateful to Manly
CIBSE has held its annual general meeting (AGM). An official record of the meeting is below
CIBSE’s AGM was held at the Royal Aeronautical Society, Hamilton Place, London W1 on 6 May 2010. Mike Simpson, outgoing president, chaired the meeting. Chief executive Stephen Matthews read the notice convening the meeting. The minutes of the 32nd AGM,
held on 7 May 2009 and published in the August 2009 issue of the CIBSE Journal, were accepted as a correct record and signed by the chairman.
for his outstanding contribution, and look forward to his continued input in other capacities.
Collaboration is key to delivering
Incoming president Rob Manning urged members to ‘just do’ the real engineering needed to deliver low energy buildings – regardless of inter-governmental debate. In his presidential address,
‘Collaborate and Deliver’, Manning stated: ‘The time has come to really prove that we are taking carbon dioxide reduction and energy efficiency in buildings seriously. As engineers in society, regardless of the outcome of inter-governmental discussions, such as those in Copenhagen, we need to “just do it”. Just do the real engineering required by our national governments. The only
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way we can meet the demands of comfort, environmental and safety aims, cost and time is to have the right people with the right interests in the project teams from the start.’ He emphasised that team
work is essential, enabled by collaborative contracts and appointments. He also talked of collaborating to improve education and training opportunities to attract the engineers of the future. He concluded that CIBSE can only achieve these aims by working with all parties involved, from trade organisations to vendors. His full address is available at
www.cibse.org
Annual report and financial statements Mike Simpson introduced the annual report and financial statements, referring to the very positive year-end membership level of 19,827. He also referred to the Young Engineers Network, which had grown substantially to 700 members. The Society of Light and Lighting celebrated its centenary during the year, with many technical and social events. The Hong Kong region celebrated its 30th anniversary, and the Benevolent Fund its 75th anniversary. Reference was made to awards, including the Low Carbon awards at the Annual Dinner, the Graduate of the Year award, and the Graduate Scheme award, made to employers for their support of graduates in the industry. The new CIBSE Journal was also noted, which was operating successfully, and reference was made to the institution’s publishing activities, with nine new technical publications issued during the year. The range of government consultations to which CIBSE had contributed was noted, and reference made to the Royal Academy of Engineering report, ‘Engineering a low carbon built environment’, which highlighted key challenges and opportunities for CIBSE. Sally-Jayne Bonner, of Chantrey
Vellacott, the institution’s auditors, read the audit statement
www.cibsejournal.com
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