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 […]
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Following this weeks launch of the new CIBSE TM54, Inkling are keen to start offering this sensible methodology for predicting the operational energy performance of buildings. Contact us for details.
The Question Time style event took place on 12th September and was wide ranging with a line-up of short presentations on Tradeable Energy Quotas, Community Energy, Consumer Engagement and Smart Meters preceding the audience’s enquiries. The write up is available here: http://www.cibse.org/content/hcnw/12th%20September%202013%20energy%20and%20behavioural%20change.pdf
On 23rd September Susie spoke at a CIBSE organised event disseminating the new TM52 “The limits of thermal comfort: avoiding overheating in European buildings”. The event was well attended and the presentations given (including Susie’s) are available here: http://www.cibsetraining.co.uk/component/content/article/2973
