Contents
NEWS 6 News
Heat pump industry calls for RHI certainty; 80% carbon target ‘technically possible’; Gaia architect Howard Liddell dies; DECC ordered to pay £180,000 FiT legal bill
12 CIBSE News Journal and Knowledge Portal voted two of the top benefi ts; commission module goes live on web; have bursary, will travel: Dale applications open
OPINION
16 Letters Calculated performance; overstating the case?
17 Regulations
Making European construction standards mandatory
18 Designing reality
Why Passivhaus might not be all it’s cracked up to be
20 Opportunity costs
Using BIM will – and should – increase design costs
Features 22 Going for broke
Highlights from Ecobuild, the largest eco show on earth
26 COVER FEATURE New frontier
Aecom reveals the secrets behind Halley VI, the new modular pod housing the British Antarctic Survey’s laboratories
32 BIM, biomass and Joanna Lumley Ecobuild from a different perspective
34 Data input A new approach to data centre effi ciency 39 Little and often
Researchers crank up the heat on tankless water heater effi ciency
PEOPLE AND JOBS
56 Appointments Jobs at
jobs.cibsejournal.com
58 Looking ahead
Greenbuild EXPO 2013, plus industry- based conferences and training
Read the Schools and
Education Special with this issue and online at
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‘We don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of hitting the UK’s carbon reduction target by 2050’ Page 22
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LEARNING 47 CPD
Air source VRF systems for fl exible room heating and cooling, heat recovery and hydronic heating
CLASSIFIED 51 Products
A round-up of gadgets and services for the industry
55 Directory A guide to suppliers 22
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EXAMINATION PROGRESS
IN
BDP puts Irish school under the microscope in bid to understand performance gap
SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION SPECIAL
THE BAUHAUS SCHOOL Skanska pilots energy performance contract on listed college refurbishment
In association with DRAUGHT EXCLUDER
New guidelines in Priority School Building Programme tackle wasteful ventilation
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