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secretary@cibse.org President: Rob Manning BSc (Hons) ENg FCIBSE Chief executive: Stephen Matthews
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President-elect Andy Ford and chief executive Stephen
Matthews visited five cities in the Middle East and Asia last November as part of an official international visit. The trip started in Doha, Qatar,
with a site visit to the SIDRA Hospital project – a new-build, international-standard facility comprising a 10-storey hospital. The new build will incorporate 428 beds and 12 operating theatres, a seven-storey outpatients clinic, a three-storey central services building, plus tunnels and link bridges. It promises to be the most technologically advanced medical centre in the world. The site visit was followed by a
CIBSE seminar, where Ford and Matthews both gave lectures and engaged local members in a lively discussion on the role of CIBSE in
Qatar and the wider region. From Doha they travelled to
Hong Kong, taking part in a joint symposium and one-day seminar. They then visited the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, where they signed the Reciprocal Recognition of Professional Qualifications. In Singapore they attended a
CIBSE seminar and networking event, where Matthews spoke on the topic: ‘CIBSE – Engineering Excellence’, while Ford gave a presentation about thermal storage. The pair also visited the impressive Marina Bay Sands complex. Andy Ford then travelled to Shanghai and Dubai, attending the CIBSE Core Group UAE meeting. These international visits aim
to help develop and improve the services that the institution offers
Search for top employer
CIBSE and the Young Engineers Network (YEN) is calling on companies to enter the 2011 CIBSE Employer of the Year Award. Previously named the YEN Champions Award, it recognises those employers who have shown excellence and innovation in developing the engineers of the future. The award rewards those
organisations who proactively champion young people in the industry, whether through a commitment to young people in employment or by supporting those in education. This is your opportunity
for your company to get the recognition it deserves for its commitment to supporting the engineers of tomorrow. Speaking at last year’s event
Rob Manning, CIBSE president, said: ‘For our industry to be successful in meeting our targets
we must attract the brightest and best to the industry and retain them. To do so needs the pledge of support from our industry leaders. These awards reward those who are supporting and encouraging young talent, and allow those organisations shortlisted to cement their reputation as a champion of young engineers.’ Once again there will be
three categories to enter: Large company; Medium company; and Small company – as well as one overall winner. The awards ceremony, presented by the CIBSE YEN, will be held in July in central London, where winning companies will receive a trophy and £1,000 of CIBSE training vouchers. The awards will be sponsored by Baxi Commercial Division. For more details and to enter, visit
www.cibse.org/awards
Widening the reach... from left: KK Lam, Andy Ford, TM Chung and Benjamin Ho
to its international members. Through this active engagement
we also hope to be able to widen our reach in these countries and increase international membership – thereby helping to make these regions stronger and more valuable to the members within them.
We would like to thank everyone
who helped make this visit such a success, in particular: Mike Daly, CIBSE Qatar representative; Dr TM Chung, chair of the CIBSE Hong Kong branch; Hsieh-Min Loy, Singapore representative; and Ivan Brinkley, UAE representative.
BSRIA’s Soft Landings launched Down Under
The Australia and New Zealand region has just completed a successful series of workshops introducing Soft Landings, a new approach to the design and delivery of sustainable buildings. The seminar series was conducted by Roderic Bunn, principal consultant with the Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA), and included a video presentation by Bill Bordass, of the Usable Buildings Trust. The seminar toured nine
cities across the region, with the audience representing a wide cross-section of the Australian and New Zealand construction industries. One of the key messages delivered was that sustainable design doesn’t automatically equate to sustainable performance. Bunn said: ‘Construction
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industry professionals need to learn from what they do, focus their design on operational outcomes – not just design inputs – and follow through after completion to both assist the occupants to understand their new workplace, and to take greater custody of the building’s environmental performance.’ Bunn and Bordass are championing a detailed manual for the practical application of this new approach, called the Soft Landings Framework, complete with worksheets that can be tailored to a specific project. While in Sydney, Bunn launched
the Australian Soft Landings User Group, which will bring together representatives from all stages of the design, supply and occupation chain to drive the process of making future buildings work more sustainably.
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