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you give them the logbook. The client’s face drops, the harsh lettering and contrasting colours causing a pain that only ceases when it has been hurriedly hidden on the top shelf, maybe never to be looked at again. After years of careful
presentation and detailed design, the single most important document in the building – the instructions on how to use your carefully crafted masterpiece, the legacy of your involvement with the project – is a badly put-together Word document. The standard CIBSE logbook
has to be the single ugliest and most incomprehensible piece of documentation that has ever existed.
The current version is
cramped and has as much style as your stereotyped engineer. Make it more attractive so that it fulfi ls its purpose and develops with the building and is an object of pride for the designer. Car log books manage it.
Maybe we could get to the stage when we’re selling buildings with a ‘full service history’? Will South
Rush towards effi ciency ignores comfort I appreciated Tim Dwyer’s CPD on indoor air quality (IAQ) (the Journal, April 2011). It concerns me that the drive towards energy effi ciency, particularly with regard to retrofi t projects, may not be
giving due consideration to – and as a result may be compromised by – comfort demands. Conversely, I think that the
same demands are not being used as effectively as they could be to drive change and justify energy performance measures. This is an area that might
be worthwhile developing as a CIBSE Special Interest Group – perhaps not focusing on IAQ but looking more broadly at indoor environmental quality, comfort and well-being. There would be a benefi t in
a specifi c group to consolidate existing knowledge and resources, and track current understanding. Michael Birnie
Last month we asked: Will the government’s proposed Green Deal deliver what’s needed to bring in a green economy one day?
YES NO
Respondents were split 2:1 against the Green Deal: 68% thought it would not succeed, with 32% believing it would.
This month the question is: Do employers in the sector generally do a reasonable job in the mentoring, training and development of their young engineers?
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