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Sustainability winners
announced
This year’s CIBSE Sustainable Design and Research in Engineering and Built Environment award (SDAR) was won by Michael Keohane and Declan Leonard. Their winning paper was on University College Cork’s Western Gateway Building – a case study for the ‘Integration of low temperature heating and high temperature cooling systems’. The CIBSE Republic of
Ireland branch launched the Sustainable Design competition in 2009. It is organised by the department of electrical services engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology, and sponsored by John Sisk and Son. The award aims to encourage innovation and evidence based evaluation in building services engineering. It is different to other ‘best project’ competitions in that it is intended to encourage research, disseminate knowledge and raise the level of innovation in schemes. Entries must evaluate what they are doing and examine mistakes as well as successes in an open way on innovative projects. For more information visit
www.cibseireland.org
Big Bang inspires engineering explosion
l Education and careers fair raises awareness of building services
The Institute once again attended ‘Big Bang: UK Young Scientist and Engineers’ Fair’, thanks to generous support from CIBSE Patrons. The three-day education and careers fair is led
by Engineering UK, and was held at London’s Excel venue in March. Targeted at nine- to 19-year-olds, it aims to inspire young people by bringing STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) to life. More than 28,000 people attended,
including 20,000 young people – helping to cement this as the largest single celebration of science and engineering for young people in the UK. This year CIBSE was based in the
Big Bang... inspiring engineers of the future
Careers Hub, which was organised by Engineering UK. Representatives from CIBSE’s Young Engineers Network (YEN) helped man the stand, answering questions about what building services engineers do, how they differ from other engineers in other sectors, and what particular contribution they make to society. Their presence helped to raise awareness of building services engineering to many who may not have heard of it before. YEN volunteer Karen Settle said: ‘To be given the opportunity to encourage and inspire young minds, to make them aware of the endless possibilities that come with a career as an engineer, and to possibly
To be given the opportunity to encourage and inspire young minds is priceless
find the engineers of the future, is priceless. The pupils and teachers I spoke with were very open to engineering and were fascinated by its diversity.’ 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 BBC’s Wallace and Gromit ‘World of Invention’ roadshow. Next year’s Big Bang will take place in Birmingham from 15 to 17 March 2012.
For more information visit: Big Bang and regional events
www.thebigbangfair.co.uk
Young Engineers Network
www.cibse.org/yen
Working with government to make the Green Deal a reality
There has been much discussion in recent months about the Green Deal, which is intended to encourage property owners to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and premises by installing energy saving measures, such as insulation. These works will be funded
through a finance package and repaid out of the energy savings achieved by installing these measures. The ‘golden rule’ of the
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Green Deal is that the projected savings must be sufficient to cover the costs of installation, and if they are not, then there will be no finance. While the focus of the discussions has been on the domestic Green Deal policy, government also wants small and medium-sized businesses to avail themselves of Green Deal finance to improve their business premises. This will require a
mechanism for assessing the likely savings, specifying the appropriate measures, and for financing them. The Department of Energy and Climate Change is working with industry to identify how these tasks might be carried out, and what further work will need to be done to achieve that. CIBSE is engaged in the
discussions and is seeking to ensure that the proposals will support sound energy
saving measures, and that the processes for assessing buildings and providing advice will be robust and provide reasonable protection for government, financiers and building owners alike. As further details become clear
we will be providing information on CIBSE’s Knowledge Bank.
For more information visit:
www.cibse.org
May 2011 CIBSE Journal 17
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