Fine Tuning

Claire has written an article for the Oct 2014 CIBSE Journal on our experience of using TM54. http://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/CIBSE/201410/energy-performance-tm54-review/ CIBSE TM54: Evaluating Operational Energy Performance of Buildings at the Design Stage (2013) was designed to close the performance gap by enabling more accurate modelling of building performance, but how effective is it in the field?

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Sep, 29, 2014
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Isabel working on Land Art Generator competition entry

Isabel has been working with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects on an entry for the Land Art Generator competition. This is the third year of the competition which invites interdisciplinary teams from around the world to submit their ideas for public art that provides utility-scale clean energy to the grid. This year the competition site is in […]

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May, 20, 2014
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Susie confirmed as CIBSE awards judge 2015

Susie has been confirmed as a member of the judging panel for the CIBSE Building Performance awards 2015. This will be the 3rd year running that she has been a judge. The launch event for the awards takes place at M&S on the 18th June. More info here: http://www.cibse.org/bpalaunch More information about the awards and how […]

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May, 13, 2014
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Inkling to offer more training sessions

Following on from our first (sell-out) training day on predicting in-use energy performance (in association with Colin Lillicrap): http://www.colinlillicrapassociates.co.uk/8.html which took place on 7th May (the next date with places still available is 4th June – follow the link to book); we are now working with Sarah Davis at Skills4Stem to develop further #BuildingPhysics related training sessions […]

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May, 07, 2014
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Inkling won’t be sending Christmas cards this year

We were trying to source something fun to send as Christmas cards to the people we’ve worked with this year. Then we came across this site: http://www.crash.org.uk/event/crash-no-christmas-card-appeal-2013/ No brainer. We won’t be sending any cards. Instead we’ve given the money we would have spent to Crash who are a charity constructing a future for […]

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Dec, 04, 2013
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Inkling Blog #1: What is Building Physics?

We are often asked what Building Physics is so it seems like a good subject to kick off the Inkling blog. The short answer is that Building Physics is the science of analysing and optimising the metabolism of a building; how it keeps warm, stays cool, responds to daylight and breathes. This analogy […]

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Dec, 03, 2013
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Susie judges CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2014

For the second year running Susie was asked to be a judge for the CIBSE Building Performance awards. The judging took place in November, but the winners won’t be announced until the awards ceremony in February. “I really enjoyed the judging process – it’s a privileged to be asked and to review such a range […]

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Nov, 25, 2013
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Claire writes WiBSE piece for CIBSE YEN newsletter

Claire wrote this piece introducing WiBSE (Women in Building Services Engineering) for the CIBSE YEN North-East newsletter. More about WiBSE can be found here.

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Nov, 04, 2013
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Inkling presenting at CIBSE Technical Symposium – Dublin 2014

Claire is presenting a poster at the CIBSE ASHRAE Technical Symposium at the Dublin Institute of Technology on the 3rd and 4th of April 2014. Our poster is entitled ‘A comparison of the CIBSE Guide A and TM52 overheating criteria for a range of building types’ http://www.cibse.org/index.cfm?go=events.view&item=4703

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Oct, 23, 2013
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Susie and Claire attending RAEng/IBPSA Performance Gap Symposium

Susie and Claire are heading to Plymouth for the RAEng / IBPSA-England Symposium on ‘Bridging the Energy Performance Gap’ on October 25th. The program looks good and it will be a nice excuse to catch up with our building physics friends! http://www.ibpsa-england.org/news/raeng-ibpsa-england-symposium-bridging-the-energy-performance-gap

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Oct, 23, 2013
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