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CIBSE-certifi ed advisers kickstart non-dom Green Deal


 Muswell Hill Golf Club is fi rst lodged on register


The UK’s fi rst commercial Green Deal survey has been lodged by a CIBSE-certifi ed Green Deal adviser.


Adrian Sweetman, of


energy management company digitalenergy, is one of only two individuals to complete the new CIBSE Approval of Prior Experiential and Learning (APEL) route to become a Green Deal adviser. He was fi rst to lodge a survey – of Muswell Hill Golf Club’s premises – on the Green Deal national register. The fi rst CIBSE-certifi ed Green Deal adviser was Richard Hipkiss, chief executive of digitalenergy, which was the fi rst company to be APEL-accredited and helped the institution to develop the training. Hipkiss said: ‘The complexity of building services in non-domestic buildings is immense – heating, cooling, and ventilation. The amount of knowledge and experience needed to be an effective non-domestic adviser is signifi cant.’


The APEL route to certifi cation, which is accredited by UKAS, is already used by CIBSE to certify energy assessors. It allows experienced energy assessors and advisers, who aren’t necessarily chartered engineers, to build on existing experience to become


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BIM ‘wiki’ to target


supply chain


CIBSE is to launch a website aimed at demystifying building information modelling (BIM). BIMtalk will provide guidance aimed at the whole construction industry.


It will contain core


information on BIM and include signposting for essential online resources. Based around a managed ‘wiki’, the resource welcomes input from other industry bodies, and has already had input from the Landscape Institute.


Muswell Hill Golf Club Green Deal fi ndings: • Predominantly a 1930s building


• Solid walls • Not very good levels of insulation


• Ineffi cient lighting


Recommendations include: • Improve the loft insulation


• Replace the glazing throughout the building


• Replace hot water storage cylinders with


‘For this to work it is critical that all Green Deal advisers provide the best informed advice’


Green Deal advisers. Andrew Geens, head of CIBSE


Certifi cation, said: ‘CIBSE is welcoming the Green Deal initiative as a tool to help make buildings more energy effi cient. However, for this initiative to work it is critical that all Green Deal advisers provide the best informed advice on where energy


proper insulated units


• Change lighting to T5s and LED alternatives


• Include some solar hot water heating


• Replace electric heating in golf shop with an air source heat pump


performance improvements can be made.’


The commercial Green Deal became operational on 28 January in England, Scotland and Wales. The Muswell Hill Golf Club survey was one of a number of free, non-domestic Green Deal surveys that were carried out as part of the government’s ‘Pioneer Places’ scheme. The government will analyse the outcomes, which offered assessments in areas including Brent and Kent.


For more on the Green Deal, turn to page 20


The site has been set up by the CIBSE BIM Steering Group, chaired by Paddy Conaghan of Hoare Lea. He said: ‘We realised that there was a risk of a two-tier BIM society, not only in the world of the building services engineer, but across the whole of industry with a risk of many being left behind.’ ‘As part of the CIBSE BIM group we are developing a freely available web resource that will evolve into a non-partisan route to learning about BIM.’ CIBSE Journal technical editor Tim Dwyer said that BIM had to be accessible to the whole supply chain. He said: ‘There is a tangible disconnect – even a gulf in understanding – between many a ‘practitioner’ and the BIM cognoscenti.’ BIMtalk.co.uk is currently in beta mode, and will be launched at the end of this month.


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