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IBSE has updated its Technical Memorandum 40: ‘Health and well-being in building services’. This new version reflects significant changes in the environmental conditions we are exposed to and advances in our knowledge of how these environments affect our health, comfort and cognitive performance. CIBSE TM40 addresses key environmental parameters that impact well-being in the design, construction and operation of buildings, specifically thermal conditions, humidity, air, light, acoustics, electromagnetic fields and water.
This revision updates the original version of TM40, published in 2006. A significant change in the document is the focus on performance outcomes. The revised document summarises existing health-based guidance and regulations and proposes recommended levels for each key environmental parameter. These may then be used as targets in new buildings, fit-outs and refurbishments, or as benchmarks in existing buildings to define priorities and improvement programmes. This technical memorandum suggests that a useful approach to designing for health and well-being is to develop a design strategy for the people in a space and not for the space itself – which may result in a scheme meeting the desired environmental conditions only in the occupied space (rather than in the whole volume).
Looking ahead, CIBSE TM40 acknowledges that health and wellbeing is an evolving subject and that there is still much
debate, research and development in numerous areas. To ensure professionals are aware of the current limits of knowledge, the document has collated these as emerging themes in each chapter of the TM.
generation, driven by the switch from coal to gas and the growth in renewable energy. Costs have fallen so quickly that offshore wind, onshore wind and solar are likely to be the UK’s primary source of electricity in the future. This has, unsurprisingly, already impacted demand for talent.
“However, as the Chancellor points out, the power generated by these renewable sources is dependent on the weather. As such, the Government is now focusing its attention on low carbon power from technologies such as nuclear, gas with carbon capture and storage (CCS), and hydrogen – which will further impact skills demand in the medium and longer term.
“Against this backdrop, we support F
ollowing last week’s Budget announcement, where
Chancellor Rishi Sunak, pledged to create ‘high-wage, high-skill, low- carbon jobs of the future’, a specialist recruiter has voiced support for the Government’s commitment to green energy – but warned that plans must be put in place to ensure that the UK has sufficient skills to realise this ambition.
Jamie Wilson, director at WR HVACR, commented: “While we applaud the Government’s plan to decarbonise industry and cut UK emissions, there are concerns among the clients we work with that significant changes to legislation will exacerbate existing skills shortages across the sector.
“As this latest Budget highlights, the Government has already made significant progress in reducing carbon emissions from electricity
the Chancellor’s ongoing commitment to apprenticeships – which was also underlined in yesterday’s budget - specifically the Apprenticeship Levy which has enabled the government to raise the standard of apprenticeships, supporting employers to make a long-term, sustainable investment in training. Through investing in skills development, we can build strong pipelines of talent which our clients are relying on to deliver future-fit instillations and maintenance.”
G 10 April 2020
iven the developing situation regarding coronavirus, a new engineering services industry survey has been launched by BESA, ECA and SELECT.
The survey aims to obtain an early picture of the current and anticipated business impact in the engineering services sector and its supply chain, to enable effective representation and advice on important issues.
The survey can be completed here -
www.surveymonkey.co.uk/ r/2CWB95Z
ECA Director of CSR Paul Reeve commented: “Coronavirus is a fast- moving situation with significant social and economic implications. It is vital that we understand the key problems being faced by companies and how to both represent and practically support our industry in what is fast becoming a changeable and challenging near future.” BESA Director of Legal and Commercial Debbie Petford added: “Our biggest challenge is ensuring our members have certainty in this extraordinary and evolving situation – especially when we do not yet know how long it will last or what extent the economic impact will be. We have already provided guidance on range of topics on our website but this survey is necessary to ensure nothing is overlooked.”
The survey, which is completely confidential, should take around three minutes complete. The initial deadline for responses is Friday March 27 2020 at 4pm.
The survey comes as Build UK and CECA have stated that construction ‘sites may have to close’ due to coronavirus. The two bodies will be asking Government to ‘identify safety critical work on the infrastructure network that is essential and must be continued’.
ECA is monitoring the situation closely and has created an employer advice portal at
www.eca.co.uk/ coronavirus. Likewise all updates and advice about the Coronavirus from BESA are available here at
https://www.thebesa.com/ coronavirus-updates/
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