CIBSE NEWS
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secretary@cibse.org President: David Fisk CB FRAEng FCIBSE FRIBA (Hons) FloP | Chief executive: Stephen Matthews
New Mid- Career College programme begins
Inserted in this month’s Journal you’ll find your copy of our new Mid-Career College course programme (UK members only).The programme covers a wide range of building services topics, including mechanical, electrical and public health subjects, as well as fire, lighting and facilities management. We also have a number of courses on energy efficiency and sustainability. Discounts are available for members and those who book early. For more detailed course listings, visit
www.cibsetraining.co.uk/ mcc
Final call for abstracts
Anyone wishing to submit a paper for the 2013 Technical Symposium should do so by 17 September. The Symposium, which will take place at Liverpool John Moores University on 11 and 12 April, is seeking papers based on recent or current research and application, as well as the actual or potential impact of that research on the built environment. For more information, and for details of how to submit your paper, visit
www.cibse.org/ symposium2013
Note the price
In the August edition of the CIBSE Journal the price advertised for CIBSE Guide F was incorrect. Please note that the correct price is £55 for members and £110 for non- members.
President’s blog celebrates Higgs Boson l David Fisk posts his views online
In his presidential address, David Fisk promised to try out the power of social media and has been blogging away furiously – without yet being sued! This month he’s discussing the ‘momentous plumbing event’ that was the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and the effect that extreme weather conditions will have on engineering, suggesting it’s perhaps time to be more realistic about the worst case scenarios our buildings might need to survive. Blogging on the report of the government’s panel on Fair Access to the Professions, he wrote: l‘Engineers do not get much of a mention, except to be told the blatantly obvious – that we are gender lopsided. Thank heavens Andy [Ford] is onto that because the report doesn’t seek to explore why.’
On climate change, he wrote: l‘Mega-typhoons in Hong Kong, fry-an-egg-on- your-porch temperatures in Texas, and a monsoon in India so severe that power taken to pump river water to agriculture induced the largest-scale power failure in history. Maybe it’s time we took climate change seriously, too?’
When blogging about the economy, he wrote:
l‘I suspect CIBSE members would give their eye teeth to get away from “boom and bust”. Some others in construction’s broad church make their living buying at bust and selling at boom. Is not another boom what they mean by the recovery? They are powerful voices but we ought to have allies. Wasn’t “boom” how we got taxpayers into Northern Rock in the first place?’
Read the full blog, along with previous posts, at
www.cibsepresident.blogspot.co.uk
Building bridges in Canada
The CIBSE Canada group is reaching out to other engineering groups to help it establish building services as an independent field of engineering.
The group was set up in September 2011 to support members in the region, and to establish building services as a legitimate field of engineering. At present, meetings are held in Toronto, but there are plans to add groups across Canada, ultimately following the Australia/New Zealand model. The group generally meets every other month, with a mix of technical presentations and informal networking. For incoming members
to Canada – or members considering the move – it
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provides a unique resource to help them acclimatise to the Canadian construction sector. For existing members it is a forum to carry on their Continued Professional Development (not yet widespread in Canada), to
‘Building services is not currently recognised as an independent discipline’
keep abreast of technical developments and to socialise. In Canada, building services engineering is not currently recognised as an independent engineering discipline, leading to significant challenges in registration as a professional
engineer. Now, the group is appealing to local engineering regulatory bodies, such as Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), to formally recognise building services. The immediate objective of the group is to elevate the status of building services engineering, with the ultimate goal being to enable members to effectively engage in the complete process of delivering energy efficient buildings across Canada. To find out more and get involved, please visit
www.cibse.org and select the link to Canada in the Regions section, or contact Malcolm Wallace at malcolm.wallace@
arup.com, the CIBSE Canada group representative.
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