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.

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 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.

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.

Susie attended this years CIBSE conference on behalf of Inkling. It was a good conference with key themes of well-being and data management.

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!

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.

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.
The write up of the round table discussion Susie participated in on the future of HVAC is in this months CIBSE Journal. You can read it here: http://www.cibsejournal.com/technical/what-next-for-heating-cooling-and-ventilation/
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
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
In her role as vice-chair of the new CIBSE Resilient cities group Susie was asked to contribute an opinion piece for the October issue of the CIBSE journal. You can read it here.
Susie is vice-chair of the new CIBSE Resilient cities group. The groups first initiative has been to set up a blog stream giving voice to opinions across the industry on what it means to equip our cities for the late 20th and early 2st centuries. Susie has written the first post for the blog, setting