EDITORIAL
Talkin’ about their generation
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T
he new Energy Act holds out great expectations for making Britain’s existing building stock more energy efficient in coming years. The Department for Energy and Climate
Change describes what’s in store, via the proposed Green Deal, as nothing less than a ‘revolution’ (see News, page 6). But, as CIBSE points out, the absence from the legislation of a plan to extend mandatory Display Energy Certificates to commercial buildings is a major lost opportunity. Whatever the eventual outcome of the Green Deal in the long
term, there is no reason why building owners and landlords cannot act now to look for the ‘quick wins’ that can be made from improving their premises. As our cover feature shows (page 40), there are simple and relatively cheap changes that can be made to the lighting, cooling and heating systems, which can save a lot of energy and offer fast payback on the costs involved. And perhaps the single most useful act that
With this much drive among older and younger generations, there is hope for a greener environment
can be taken – but it has to be done daily – is to turn all the plant off as early as possible in the evening. If this year’s CIBSE-ASHRAE Graduate Awards are anything to go by, the next generation of young engineers is well aware of the importance of sustainability in the built environment (see pages 11 and 18). The green agenda seems to be a key factor in why many bright young engineering graduates are turning
to the built environment to pursue their careers. This new generation also seems acutely aware of the importance
of collaborative project team-working for the sustainable design and contruction of new buildings. Angela Malynn, the 2011 Graduate of the Year, writes eloquently in this issue of the need for the older generation of engineers to empower the younger generation, so that the latter can ‘be at the forefront’ of the sustainability agenda and really push it forward. As our roundtable debate on young engineers testifies, the
older generation is acutely aware of the need to devolve power; the conundrum is how to make it happen (see page 23). But, with this much awareness and drive across the generations, we hopefully won’t need to rely on the success of government ‘green deals’ to push forward change in the built environment.
Bob Cervi, Editor
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