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Contents


NEWS 7 News


New rules on refrigerants; Cameron fi res up shale gas; Cambridge district heating plan abandoned


14 CIBSE News


Gearing up for Ecobuild; technician apprenticeships in the spotlight


OPINION


22 Taxpayer value in a pickle Hywel Davies considers the value of making the details of Energy Performance Certifi cates more widely available


24 Don’t bin the tracing paper yet Geoffrey Palmer fears engineers are becoming over-reliant on building information modelling software


26 The selfish giants


Modelling needs to take more account of surrounding buildings, otherwise energy strategies will not deliver, argues Julie Futcher and Gerald Mills


Features


28 Global gathering Showcasing the fi nalists in the newest category to be added to CIBSE’s Building Performance Awards – International Project of the Year


32 Technical merit Liza Young looks at the environmental features of the venues playing host to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics


36 Russia’s green revolution


Englishman Guy Eames, head of the Russian Green Building Council, is leading the country’s move to low-energy design. Liza Young reports


39 Olympic gains Richard Perry and Tom Ren explain how athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics were kept warm by heat extracted from a sewage treatment plant


The Russian government is starting to see the economic benefits of energy efficiency, as it can make much more money exporting energy than it can by supplying it to heavily subsidised domestic markets


Page 36 www.cibsejournal.com 46 Buildings with brains


New technologies, smart materials and robotics are already shaping the future of buildings, says Professor Derek Clements-Croome


52 Joining the dots


Size really does matter when it comes to district heating schemes. Some are too small to reap the benefi ts, says Andrew Brister


58 Talking headers


David Palmer offers some design guidance when it comes to installing low loss headers for boilers


February 2014 CIBSE Journal 3 LEARNING


65 CPD Continuous airfl ow measurement in ventilation and air conditioning systems


CLASSIFIED 70 Products


A round-up of gadgets and services for the industry


73 Directory A guide to suppliers PEOPLE AND JOBS


74 Appointments Jobs at jobs.cibsejournal.com


78 Looking ahead


Ecobuild, Building Performance Awards and the Technical Symposium


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