Acoustics vs overheating risk – resolving the tension
Best practice members met on 17th January 2018 to discuss the conundrum of balancing the need to mitigate overheating risk in homes with the competing requirement to maintain a comfortable internal acoustic environment. Bluntly – opening windows to cool an apartment risks increasing the external noise audible inside to unsatisfactory levels. Poor external air quality will also […]
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- Jan, 26, 2018
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Inkling at CIBSE Build2Perform Live
I (Susie) participated in two sessions this year. I spoke on the afternoon of the first day in the session: ‘Designing out domestic overheating risk in challenging urban environments’ The session was chaired by Becci Taylor from Arup. I opened the session with an introduction to CIBSE TM59 (more here) and […]
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- Nov, 30, 2017
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BB101 – what’s happening?
We wanted to do some digging to understand what’s happening with the new version of BB101 and what impact it may have on modelling for schools. We thought we’d share what we found in case it is useful to others in the modelling community. Please share and let us know if you have any experience […]
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- Oct, 11, 2017
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Inkling respond
We were asked by the CIBSE Journal to respond to a recent Telegraph article that criticised the modelling community and pointing the finger at us for the performance gap. Our response was printed in the June edition and we’ve reproduced it below. A recent article in The Telegraph, ‘Energy scandal: misleading efficiency claims leading to huge bills […]
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- Jun, 06, 2017
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Inkling and TM59
Inkling are very proud to have been involved in the writing of the new CIBSE TM59 Design methodology for the assessment of overheating risk in homes. Susie was part of the team right from the beginning, participating in the early Zero Carbon Hub workshops and collaborating all the way through to publication with CIBSE, UCL, Arup […]
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- May, 22, 2017
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Susie’s notes from CIBSE Technical Symposium 2017
Susie was the Inkling representative at this years Technical Symposium held in Loughborough 5-6th April 2017. She diligently tweeted and took notes, and has compiled this storify to offer an impartial digested read of proceedings: https://storify.com/InklingLLP/technical-symposium-2017 moved to https://wakelet.com/wake/867a1968-581c-4553-8b05-74f102cda065 Image tweeted by Tom Corbett @Corbssss Conclusions listed are: The carbon intensity of the UK national grid has […]
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- Apr, 07, 2017
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Inkling at CIBSE Conference 2016
Susie attended this years CIBSE conference on behalf of Inkling. It was a good conference with key themes of well-being and data management. Here is the Storify which links all Susie’s tweets from the two days: https://storify.com/InklingLLP/cibse-conference-2016 moved to: https://wakelet.com/wake/350c08bf-d5b6-4198-8a09-fd7c472630eb
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- Nov, 21, 2016
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Susie interviewed for CIBSE podcast
This month I was asked to take part in a new CIBSE podcast initiative. As a big fan of podcasting, and with the subject of ‘Women in engineering’ I could hardly say no! I was interviewed at my kitchen table by Matt Snowden from CIBSE. We discuss the inception of WiBSE and the benefits of a […]
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- Jul, 15, 2016
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What’s with the weather?
We have been taking a look at the new weather files that CIBSE have put out to replace the TRY and DSY datasets produced in 2005. The same 14 locations have been used, but the files have been through a rigorous process to select the data using an updated baseline of weather years (1984 to […]
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- May, 25, 2016
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Susie’s symposium special
Rather than blog my notes from the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2016, I’ve decided to add them to a Storify which links all the tweets I sent during the event. Seems a good way to collate my thoughts. https://storify.com/InklingLLP/techsymp2016 moved to: https://wakelet.com/wake/a0b680b3-f3d2-454c-9420-e860535a0697
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- Apr, 18, 2016
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