CIBSE NEWS
New edition of TM44 published
The future of heating
CIBSE has published a new edition of TM44: Inspection of Air Conditioning Systems – a guide to EPBD compliance, to coincide with the start of statutory lodgement of air conditioning inspection reports, which began on 6 April 2012. TM44 is primarily intended
to support inspections that are carried out for compliance with the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, but it will also be useful to anyone who wishes to assess the energy effi ciency of an air conditioning system. This edition clarifi es
some key questions on air conditioning inspections, considers the requirements for the production of reports in England and Wales, as well as in Northern Ireland and Scotland. The revised edition covers:
inspection of packaged cooling systems; inspection of centralised cooling systems; assessing equipment sizing in relation to the cooling load; assessment of ventilation performance; advice on alternative ways of delivering cooling; and explanatory notes for building owners and managers. This edition supersedes TM44
2007, and is available free to CIBSE members from www.
cibseknowledgeportal.co.uk
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has issued a strategic framework on future provision of heat in the UK. It explains how heat is supplied and used in the UK today and describes how DECC believes it will need to evolve over time. In doing so, it identifi es substantial changes that it believes will be required across our economy and the role for government in delivering them. It estimates that the UK will spend some £33bn on heat for buildings and industrial processes this year. Almost all of it is generated from fossil fuels and it accounts for a third of UK carbon dioxide emissions. As we seek to reduce our emissions, we will need to reduce those from heat generation. This will create new markets and opportunities; for example, three- quarters of a million heat pumps were sold in the EU last year. DECC identifies an opportunity for the UK to capture more of this market.
The strategy does not make new policy proposals at this stage, but provides the strategic framework within which these will be developed, and invites stakeholders to give their views.
DECC is inviting responses to a number of questions in the strategy, which are to be submitted by 24 May. Members with comments who wish to contribute to the CIBSE response are invited to send them to
technical@cibse.org Once the deadline for responses has passed, the department will publish a summary of comments received. DECC intends to develop specific policy proposals within the next 12 months. For some further discussion of the strategy, see the article on the role of CHP in cutting emissions on page 38 of this issue of the Journal. Visit
www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/meeting_ energy/heat_strategy/
heat_strategy.aspx
Call for members to register their training
CIBSE is encouraging all new trainees who are following an approved-employer training scheme to register their training with the Institution. Trainees must also hold a grade of CIBSE membership, such as ‘graduate’ for those progressing towards ACIBSE/ IEng or MCIBSE/CEng; or ‘student’ for LCIBSE/EngTech, and if you have not already applied, you are invited to do
so as soon as possible. School leavers who are on an appropriate academic course of study are eligible to apply for student membership.
Information and application forms for all grades of CIBSE membership are available on the CIBSE website under the Membership section, by following the link to the relevant membership grade.
The training and development
(T&D) plan registration form is included in the current T&D manual. Trainees can email their T&D plan registration form direct to Olwen Williams at
owilliams@cibse.org, or call 020 8772 3605. Acknowledgement will be sent via email.
More information on the T&D form is available from
www.cibse.org, listed under Employer Training Schemes.
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CIBSE Journal May 2012
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