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SMITH NAMED TOP LOW CARBON CONSULTANT Neil Smith, regional director at WYG Engineering, has won the CIBSE Low Carbon Consultant of the Year Award for 2012/13. The award recognises an outstanding contribution to low carbon performance via measured energy performance and carbon reduction calculated from submitted carbon return forms.


NEW YORK BENCHMARKS PUBLISHED New York City has published the data from its first legally enforced energy benchmarking exercise. All privately-owned properties over 50,000 square feet are now required to measure and report their energy and water use annually. Nearly 1.8 billion square feet of built space was analysed.


LAHIFF TO GUIDE ENERGY CODES ASHRAE fellow Ian LaHiff has been appointed as a special adviser to the US Department of Energy on developing and deploying building energy codes. He will help in areas such as residential and commercial code research and development; developing code change proposals; code compliance and energy code training.


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Morrell blames ‘class’ for industry’s inability to change


current economic situation was an impediment to the industry’s growth, and that the sector has to become more client-facing and embrace new technology, like building information modelling, to progress.


During a debate on ‘Retaining, recruiting and developing a robust pool of talent in the building services sector’, Carol O’Neil, HR and training director at Cundall, told delegates that the quality of graduate engineers entering the industry was variable. She said that, in many


l Chief construction adviser says architects are still top of the food chain


The UK construction industry is still stuck in the Victorian era, operating on a hierarchical class system that will see the sector fail to meet its stringent carbon reduction targets if change doesn’t occur swiftly.


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That was the message from outgoing chief construction adviser, Paul Morrell, during his keynote speech at the CIBSE Conference and Exhibition.


He said the hierarchy still sees architects at the top of the food chain, followed by engineers, with manufacturers and installers at the bottom.


‘This stems back to the Victorian idea that everybody should know their place,’ Morrell told delegates.


This system, explained Morrell, is what leads to rowing between factions in the supply chain and, ultimately, is what gives clients a ‘hard landing’, invariably leaving them without the knowledge to run their buildings efficiently. He went on to add that the


instances, young people have the necessary technical expertise but lack the wider communication skills needed to do the job. ‘Communication is a real challenge, and that’s a big part of what we do,’ she added. During the same debate, Nigel Clark, technical director of Hilson Moran, said the lack of experience of working in a team was evident in many graduate engineers.


He said: ‘We’re making a point of moving them around the company so they get a different experience within the first two years and growing responsibility within the first four years.’


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