CIBSE NEWS
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secretary@cibse.org President: George Adams CEng FCIBSE | Chief executive: Stephen Matthews
New training programme announced
Mid Career College has announced a new programme of training for the autumn and through to July 2014, with a number of new courses added, including Construction Project Management for building services professionals. You can find details of the programme in the handy brochure enclosed in this edition of the CIBSE Journal. You can also view the courses at
www.cibsetraining.co.uk
Simplified membership renewals
For quicker, more convenient membership subscription renewal, CIBSE offers those with UK bank accounts the option to pay their membership subscription by direct debit (DD). Members who renew via DD will receive a discount on their standard membership. International members now have the added convenience of paying by continuous credit card authority (CCA). To register for DD or CCA, call the membership team on +44(0)20 8772 3655 and have your bank/card details ready. For further information, email
membershipsubs@cibse.org or visit
www.cibse.org/fees where you will find full information about CIBSE membership subscription fees and the discounts available.
●Big names speak at Young Energy Performance Group series at UCL
Hundreds of young engineers attended a series of lectures on energy performance at UCL last month. The six presentations in the Rethinking Energy Performance series featured leading experts from academia and industry, including Bill Bordass of the Usable Building Trust, Debbie Hobbs, sustainability manager at Legal and General Property, and Rokia Raslan, lecturer in environmental design and engineering at UCL.
The talks, organised by the CIBSE Young Energy Performance Group (YEPG), tackled subjects such as the performance gap, retrofits and FM. Zack Gill, organiser and committee member of YEPG, said: ‘The aim of the series is to spread information on topics that people may not know too
much about, and open people’s eyes to new areas. ‘We were a bit nervous about the lectures, but we were pleasantly surprised. They worked really well. There were a good range of speakers and good debates that stimulated ideas for further debate.’ The simulation lecture asked whether engineers were using software to tick boxes, rather than optimising building design. Raslan and Roger Smith, senior engineer at Parsons Brinckerhoff, flagged up current issues with simulation tools such as the proliferation of software, the importance of intelligent application and the moral obligation on engineers to design low-energy buildings.
Greig Paterson, doctoral candidate at Bartlett UCL/Aedas, discussed his app, which offers a ‘sanity check’ for architects by showing energy performance of designs according to different parameters.
For more information, and presentations visit
www.cibse-epg.org/yepg
Summer programme attracts hundreds of young engineers
Rokia Roslan Greig Paterson
Abstracts invited for BSO14 simulation conference
The second IBPSA-England national conference, organised in association with CIBSE, has been announced and will be hosted by University College London (UCL) next June.
BSO14 will provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge on the development and application of building performance simulation to the optimum design and operation of buildings. The conference will have four broad themes: new performance models and
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simulation methods; procedures for optimising design and operation; real-world case studies; and, visualisation in the built environment. The organisers are inviting submissions of new and original research abstracts that tackle one of the key themes of the conference. Successful authors will be asked to submit a full paper, which will be published at the conference. The deadline for submission is 20 September 2013. For more information, visit
www.bso14.org
www.cibsejournal.com
Pictures: Holly Wright
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