Claire attends Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate The Year of Engineering

On Thursday 22nd November 2018 I attended a Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey with colleagues from CIBSE to celebrate The Year of Engineering 2018. The service was led by John Hall, Dean of Westminster and included personal testimonies from engineers about how engineering has changed their lives. These included an inspiring and moving testimony from Roma […]

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Nov, 23, 2018
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Inkling at Building Simulation and Optimisation 2018 Conference

I represented Inkling at the Building Simulation and Optimisation 2018 Conference at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on 11-12 September. I was able to attend two of the three keynote sessions, the first was from Dr Penny Carey of Portakabin on “Meeting the challenges of improving building standards within the construction industry”. This engaging presentation […]

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Sep, 28, 2018
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There may be trouble ahead

Claire has contributed an article to the RICS Property Journal. The article discusses the effect of the upcoming Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) Regulations on commercial rent reviews and lease renewals. MEES comes into force in under a month’s time on 1st April 2018 and makes it unlawful to let a substandard commercial or domestic […]

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Mar, 05, 2018
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Susie Diamond co presents CIBSE Weather Data Sets Webinar

Susie Diamond co presented the CIBSE Weather Data Sets Webinar on 23rd February 2017 discussing the new CIBSE weather datasets, their key characteristics and their use in practice. The event had over 300 attendees, also speaking were Anastasia Mylona, Research Manager at CIBSE and Dane Virk, Graduate Engineer at ATKINS.

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Mar, 20, 2017
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Weather files and modelling overheating risk

This blog offers our thoughts on the impact of weather file selection on modelling domestic overheating risk. This is part of an ongoing discussion currently taking place regarding defining a complete methodology for predicting domestic overheating risk which factors in weather file selection, occupancy and gain profiles and setting the pass/fail thresholds. The weather […]

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Mar, 31, 2016
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Inkling Peer review upcoming RIBA publication

Inkling have acted as peer reviewers for an upcoming RIBA publication on Building Physics. How Buildings Work by Huw Evans is due to be published in July 2016. How Buildings Work provides construction professionals with a clear understanding of the basic mechanisms of physics and how they affect the performance and operation of buildings. […]

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Jan, 20, 2016
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Susie and Claire on Scientific Committee for the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2016

Susie and Claire are acting as expert peer reviewers for the sixth CIBSE Technical Symposium to be held on 14th and 15th April 2016 at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. The symposium this year has the theme ‘Integration for whole life building performance’ inspired by CIBSE President Nick Mead who has called for the industry […]

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Jan, 13, 2016
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CIBSE AM11: Building Performance Modelling – what’s it all about?

The much anticipated update to the 1998 version of the AM11 CIBSE application manual on Building Performance Modelling was published in November 2015. The manual has been extensively updated reflecting the many changes in the building modelling landscape since the initial release, including advances in computing power and software, changes in legislation and increased industry […]

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Jan, 11, 2016
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Inkling carrying out modelling to assess window film performance

Inkling have been doing some work with Eastman to explore the properties of some of their glazing films and how well the dynamic thermal modelling tools (TAS and IES) can pick up their benefits. It has been an interesting exercise and we thought we’d share some of what we’ve learned in this blog post. […]

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May, 18, 2015
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New CIBSE publication on Integrated School Design

CIBSE have recently published TM57 Integrated School Design. This document covers various design aspects for schools such as thermal comfort, acoustics, daylighting, air quality and ventilation. It states: “Teaching and learning spaces pose a great challenge to designers and engineers as the environmental needs are more complex than with most rooms. The challenge […]

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Apr, 27, 2015
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