CIBSE NEWS
Obituary Gentle Kiwi was unsung
hero of built environment
l Phil Jones pays tribute to Harry Bruhns, who has died of cancer
Harry Bruhns passed away very recently after a long battle with cancer. Harry dedicated his working life to analysing building energy and floor area data. His work has underpinned the building industry in the UK for the past 20 years. He grew up in rural New Zealand and
was commonly known as ‘The Professor’ by the age of 10. Harry was awarded an MSc in Physics from Canterbury University (Christchurch, NZ) and then joined Victoria University (Wellington) as a Research Fellow; while there, he pioneered the use of statistical techniques to understand the patterns of energy use in the 2,000-plus primary schools in New Zealand. He moved to the UK in the early 1990s
and worked at the Open University on the development of a database and model of energy use in the non- domestic stock for the Department of the Environment. This stock model used property taxation data and covered about 1.7m properties in England and Wales.
This provided the floor space inputs to the BRE’s National Non-domestic Energy and Emissions Model (N-DEEM) and was the precursor of the CaRB non-domestic model that Harry also worked on. In 1999, Harry joined University
‘ Harry’s work has underpinned the building industry for the past 20 years’
College London, initially working at the Bartlett and then moving to the UCL Energy Institute when that was formed in 2009. He developed the system now used in-house by the Department for Communities and Local Government to generate its annual commercial and industrial floor space statistics. Harry also contributed
to the UK Green Buildings Council study of zero carbon
non-domestic buildings that underpins government policy to introduce such buildings from 2019. His work on the CIBSE benchmarking committee was incorporated into the current Display Energy Certificates. He also helped design the underlying database for the online Carbon Buzz tool, comparing design and actual non-domestic energy consumption. Harry was one of the first to realise
New members, fellows and associates FELLOW
John Grainger High Wycombe, UK
John Grainger is a regional partner with DSSR Consulting Engineers. He joined the practice in 1981, initially in Doha, and has been based in the London office since late 1983. In addition to having a particular responsibility for DSSR’s work in the aviation sector, he was also involved in the setting up of the firm’s graduate training scheme.
Gerald Israel Pontypridd, UK
Gerald Israel is energy manager for Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC, a director of GAI Associates Limited (Energy Consultants) and part-time lecturer. He is a Low Carbon Energy Assessor with CIBSE, and a South Wales region committee member. Particular interests and specialisms are renewable energy technologies.
Robert Stewart Slough, UK
Harry Bruhns dedicated his working life to analysing building energy and floor area data
the power of linking already-available building and energy data, and had central roles in both the scoping study for the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Non-domestic Energy Efficiency Database (NEED) and the NEED pilot carried out in Bristol in 2009. Harry was a gentle and quietly spoken
Kiwi who loved debate, discussion and detail. He enjoyed data, databases, mountaineering, current affairs and a quick roll-up with a cup of coffee and a chat. He was the UK’s leading specialist on non-domestic energy stock modelling, a lovely man and a real unsung hero -– very much a sad loss to the industry.
Phil Jones is chairman of the CIBSE Energy Performance Group
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October 2011 CIBSE Journal 17
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