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With RAEng, CIBSE intends to approach industry to seek funding for additional VPs. This is clearly a very positive step forward and is very important for the development of the industry. I keep thinking that we must try and do this internationally too. Bath has already begun the recommended skills survey – with almost £85,000 of funding pledged by a variety of supporters, including the RAEng and CIBSE. Using the knowledge already available to
The survey is a
crucial plank in the development of our industry
Summit Skills, this will be a broad spectrum skills survey, carried out by MORI via phone. The report is due in early 2011. The survey is a crucial plank in
the development of our industry, and will help to ensure we have a workforce with the appropriate skills – or, at the very least, identify the key shortfalls and thus allow a feasible plan to be made. Another output from the skills
survey will be the production of an economic case to help the RAEng put forward a proposal to government to fund CofE. The concept is that these will
be based at universities with a good grounding in BEP. At this
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stage, we are thinking about the fi rst two centres, but there have been suggestions that we should eventually aim for six. The diagram (right) shows how these centres may be set up: Finally, there has been much discussion on the restricted nature of the contractual and commercial frameworks that shape so much of our industry. We all understand what a
huge challenge it is to think of modifying these commercial practices. However, I am pleased to report that through our discussions with the Association of Consulting Engineers (ACE), which has responsibility for these frameworks, its legal and commercial group has already started making plans to review its conditions of engagement. A review panel is being set up and we hope work will start soon; CIBSE president Rob Manning has already been co-opted onto the panel. So, where do we go next?
There is much to do to deliver our action plan but, so far, we appear to be on track. Yes, we do need to have
some of the brightest and the best to grapple with the science and engineering of our buildings. Equally, we have to design, build and operate these buildings within an effective and appropriate commercial framework, which necessitates
BSc General Architectural Studies
Centres of Excellence MArch Architectural
Part 2 Centre for Low
Low Carbon Pedagogy
MEng Civil & Arch Engineering
Carbon Integrated Design (LuCID)
BSc Environmental Design
Centre for Innovative
Construction Analysis
Post Occupancy Evaluation
Building Physics
MEng Civil Engineering
Undergraduate Engineering
Doctorate Centre in Systems
Postgraduate
Centre for Window & Cladding
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having a successful and profi table industry. We also need to look beyond UK shores as this is a global issue and there are real commercial opportunities in low carbon built environments. Personally, I think we
need to take heed of other engineering disciplines; on the assumption that we have the scientifi c understanding, the manufacturing base, and the skills to design and build, we then need the building
system engineers to integrate their skills to make value judgements on the interfaces of systems and sub-systems. It is not just project management skills that are required – and they are hard enough – but we must also be able to fi ne-tune and adapt the complex and distil the variables, so that the correct decisions can be made and clients have confi dence in the product and operation. In essence, this is the challenge.
November 2010 CIBSE Journal 19
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