CIBSE NEWS
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secretary@cibse.org President: George Adams CEng FCIBSE | Chief executive: Stephen Matthews
Lateset guides focus on public health and climate projections
Guide G and Probabilistic Climate Profiles now available in the Knowledge Portal
The ever-popular CIBSE Knowledge Portal recently added two important releases to its extensive catalogue. The updated Guide G: Public Health and Plumbing Engineering was produced in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE). This new publication has been updated to refl ect recent changes to UK water and sanitation standards , including developments in codes overseas. It provides guidance to public health designers and installers, as well as architects and authorities that – while not directly concerned with public health engineering – need to understand the advice offered to them by specialists. Together with TM13, the guide complements the Health and Safety Executive’s revised Approved Code of Practice L8 on the control of legionella bacteria in water systems.
Paul Angus, chair of the Guide G steering group, and hydraulic and fi re associate director at Engineers for Building Services, said: ‘The modern public health design engineer has a signifi cant role to play, not only in reducing the consumption of water and energy, but also in looking at the wider environmental impact of the systems designed
ProCliPs look at future-proofi ng buildings against the impact of climate change
and materials specifi ed. The chapter on conservation and sustainability is a useful overview of advice on such matters.’ The second release, Probabilistic Climate Profi les (ProCliPs) – The effective use of climate projections in building design addresses the adaptation and future -proofi ng of buildings to mitigate the impacts of climate change using the UKCIP09 climate projections.
Future weather data for building simulation and design is highly complex, and could require a lot of additional resources in performance analysis during the design stage. The ProCliPs provide a simple way of
presenting climate projections and their impact on individual
locations. They also provide a methodology for selecting future weather fi les
appropriate to the project and help
in interpreting the results.
ProCliPs are already used by a number of organisations at design stage, aiding the communication of climate uncertainty to the design team and the client. Modellers fi nd the profi les viable for selecting weather fi les appropriate for the performance analysis of building solutions.
Both guides are available now at www.
cibseknowledgeportal.co.uk
Look out for the Knowledge Portal special in next month’s CIBSE news.
Society AGM The Society of Light and
Lighting (SLL) AGM will be held at the National Maritime Museum on 29 May 2014, and will be followed by an awards ceremony. SLL is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help play a part in developing the way the society runs events and presents itself to the outside world. To get involved or attend the AGM, contact
SLL@cibse.org, or meet the team at one of the events.
14 CIBSE Journal March 2014 Which CIBSE region are you in?
There are 16 CIBSE regions within the UK, each of which ha s a committee of volunteer members arranging regular technical and social events. If you don’t know which region you are in, get in touch with us at
membership@cibse.org to fi nd out how you can get involved.
CIBSE also has three international regional committees operating in Hong Kong, Australia/ NZ and the Republic of Ireland, and is developing membership in Canada, Qatar, UAE, Sri Lanka, Singapore and China. For more on the regions visit
http://bit.ly/Oa3kHF
www.cibsejournal.com
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