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The fund that keeps on giving


We’d like to thank you for your ongoing support to the Benevolent Fund. We have recently given


support to a member with heart and kidney problems, helping him and his wife with travel costs for outpatient care. For this, along with more than 50 other current life-challenging situations, the CIBSE Benevolent Fund is providing help and voluntary support. This year, you will notice on


your membership renewal that the contribution we’re asking for from members has increased to £5. In 2010 we received a 10% increase in requests for help, and this additional donation will help us to support as many members as possible in difficult circumstances. Please remember to continue


to support the fund, and so contribute to its work. Just tick the BenFund box on your 2011 membership renewals forms. www.cibse.org/benfund


A tribute to


John Holmes John Holmes, past president of the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and Honorary Fellow of CIBSE, has passed away, aged 101. He joined the IES in the early 1930s, becoming president in 1951. In 1987 he was awarded the inaugural Lighting Award. Holmes’ career was largely in


optical design, starting out with the glassmakers, Chance Brothers, before becoming technical director at Holophane. There he applied his knowledge to lighting design and equipment – and designing the light fittings used in Westminster Abbey for the 1953 coronation. As well as his vast contribution


to research, he will also be remembered for devising the first flush runway lights, which made the night landing of commercial aircraft possible. He went on to devise international standardisation of coloured safety signals.


20 CIBSE Journal November 2010


BIM’s future in BSE n


Rob Manning, CIBSE president, recently took part


in a conference on the future of building information modelling (BIM), speaking about CIBSE’s response to the challenge of adopting BIM. Presentations from clients, such


as Manchester City Council, Mott MacDonald, and Tocci from the United States, set the scene, and Paul Morrell, chief construction adviser, provided the summing up. He announced that BIM will be playing a greater role in future public sector contracts. Manning gave a short


presentation on the institution’s approach to BIM, stressing the need for integrated technical models, project models and business models. He also highlighted the importance of viewing BIM as a way of working, not a software solution, and he reiterated his call for changes to the conditions of appointment, and to contracts to enable these new ways


BIM will be playing a greater role in future public sector contracts


of working to be adopted. Uptake of BIM in France, Germany and the UK is significant, with 34% of respondents to a recent survey having been ‘using BIM’ for five years or more. But one of the recurring themes of the conference was the need for MEP calculation and design software to be integrated better with drawing


packages – a challenge that CIBSE is already working on. The conference was organised by Autodesk. CIBSE will be holding its own conference on BIM, called: ‘BIM: Who Benefits?’ on 2 December 2010, at CIBSE headquarters in London. www.cibsetraining.co.uk/ conferences


New YEN centre launches


A CIBSE YEN centre has been set up in the north east to provide support and networking for young engineers living, studying and working in the area. The new centre’s launch was


celebrated with a cruise along the River Tyne. The event, sponsored by BAXICommercial Division, was attended by students and lecturers from Northumbria University and engineers from leading consultancies in the region. The group was set up following


initial discussions between CIBSE’s Graduate of the Year 2009 winner, Emma Marshall, and BAXI’s Rebecca Johnson, with Gerard Hosford, of AECOM, and Colin Lehane, of Mott Macdonald, helping to ensure that the region was set up quickly and that the launch was a success. Lehane said: ‘This was the


perfect opportunity to demonstrate what we hope to achieve with the CIBSE YEN North East region, which is for those in the industry to


Hays launches new website


Hays Building Services, the leading recruiting expert, has just launched its website, giving members access to a range of benefits, including careers advice and an annual salary guide. The new site, which can be accessed from the updated CIBSE homepage, is one of the benefits Hays is providing to members as part of a three-year recruitment partnership with the institution.


Hays will continue to support CIBSE’s education, training and careers activities, and will carry on sponsoring the CIBSE Undergraduate Award. Andrew Bredin, managing


director at Hays, said: ‘We look forward to developing our joint offering to members so they have easy access to essential information to help them progress their careers.’


be able to meet, network and share their knowledge and experience.’ Special thanks to BAXI


Commercial Division for its support, as well as to Gary Kettlewell, of Compheat, and Scott Russell, of Nuaire, for sponsoring the drinks. For more information or to join,


email gerard.hosford@aecom.com or colin.lehane@mottmac.com Details of the centre’s future events can be viewed at www.facebook. com/cibse.yennortheast


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