NEWS In brief
WOMEN INSPIRE ENGINEERS The new women’s engineering group, WiBSE, held its fi rst offi cial event at Ramboll’s London offi ce last month. Four women shared their experiences of rising to the top of their careers. The women – Alex Lawrence,
technical director at Ramboll, Debbie Beaven, fi nance director at Ramboll, Claire Devine, director at Capita Architecture and chairman of Women in Architecture – described their experiences of climbing the career ladder and the barriers they overcame. Former UK diplomat and
non-executive director at Mott McDonald, Clare Smith, spoke of her determination to secure a place at the Foreign Offi ce before working around the world with her family in tow. ‘I’m the woman in Islamabad
who talked to the Taliban,’ Smith joked to the audience when describing the role she played during an airline hijacking.
CIBSE responds to 2013 Budget
The government will be responding to last year’s consultation on changes to Part L of the Building Regulations by May, the Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Spring Budget Statement last month.
CIBSE has welcomed the news after raising concerns in December over delays to Part L. Nonetheless, the institution still believes uncertainty over the 2013 changes is holding back activity and causing additional costs in the sector, both in terms of energy saving opportunities and also to businesses committed to better building performance.
CIBSE technical director Hywel Davies said: ‘It is good to have a fi rm date when we can expect an announcement, although it leaves consultants and clients with further uncertainty, which will not stimulate
activity.’ CIBSE has also welcomed announcements providing more certainty for zero carbon homes from 2016. It has stated that it will consult on the next steps for the zero carbon homes policy, including on the means of delivering
‘It is good to have a fi rm date when we can expect an announcement’
‘allowable solutions’ – part of the government’s strategy for cost- effective delivery of mainstream zero carbon new homes – by the target date.
A boost in infrastructure spending is also planned by government, with £3bn a year expected to come from departmental savings, to be spent
from 2015-16. Chancellor George Osborne said this would enable government to spend an extra £15bn on capital spending over the next decade.
Osborne also revealed a ‘Help to Buy’ scheme to kickstart the housing market. A total of £3.5bn is to be spent on shared equity loans over the next three years, and a Mortgage Guarantee will allow lenders to provide loans to people with small deposits.
But the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Angela Brady, said Osborne’s Budget would do little for the country’s housing crisis. She said: ‘The UK is in the grip of the worst housing crisis for decades, yet committing to build only a tiny proportion of the 300,000 new homes that are needed each year to meet demand.’
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CIBSE Journal April 2013
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