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 […]

Post Tagged with Blog Posts

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik, Susie Diamond, Training
Apr, 27, 2015
Comments Off on New CIBSE publication on Integrated School Design

Inkling @ #CIBSESymposium 2015

At Inkling both Susie and Claire made contributions to the organising of the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2015. We were keen to attend the two-day event event at UCL, and have taken this opportunity to write up and share our experience of it. Sergio Fox (Architecture without Engineers) opened the event with an interesting and entertaining […]

Post Tagged with Blog Posts

Posted by Susie Diamond
Posted in CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik, Events, Susie Diamond
Apr, 21, 2015
Comments Off on Inkling @ #CIBSESymposium 2015

Susie features on the CIBSE blog

Susie features on the CIBSE blog: ‘A day in the life of a Building Performance Awards Judge‘ – http://www.cibseblog.co.uk/2014/09/day-in-life-of-building-performance.html The Awards shortlist has been announced and can be viewed here: http://www.cibse.org/Building-Performance-Awards/Awards-Shortlist The awards dinner takes place on 10th February 2015 when the winners will be announced.

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in Awards, CIBSE, Events, Susie Diamond
Oct, 23, 2014
Comments Off on Susie features on the CIBSE blog

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?

Posted by Susie Diamond
Posted in CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik, Media
Sep, 29, 2014
Comments Off on Fine Tuning

Claire Das Bhaumik is now a CIBSE Fellow

Claire Das Bhaumik is proud to be a CIBSE Fellow (‘FCIBSE’). Fellowship is the most senior grade of CIBSE membership. The work of an FCIBSE is characterised by the ability to develop appropriate solutions to engineering problems using new or existing technologies, through innovation, creativity and change. Claire is a Chartered Engineer and […]

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in Awards, CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik
Jun, 05, 2014
Comments Off on Claire Das Bhaumik is now a CIBSE Fellow

Mind the ‘Performance Gap’ – Inkling offering CIBSE TM54 predicted in-use energy modelling

The “Performance Gap” – the difference between design predictions and operational energy use – is a serious issue for our industry. The CarbonBuzz web site shows that many buildings consume between 1.5 and 2.5 times the predicted design energy. In order to address this, the industry needs both better energy-use predictions and a greater […]

Post Tagged with TM54

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in CIBSE, Training
May, 27, 2014
Comments Off on Mind the ‘Performance Gap’ – Inkling offering CIBSE TM54 predicted in-use energy modelling

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 […]

Posted by Susie Diamond
Posted in Awards, CIBSE, Susie Diamond
May, 13, 2014
Comments Off on Susie confirmed as CIBSE awards judge 2015

Claire to present at CIBSE ASHRAE Technical symposium 2014

Claire is to present research at the CIBSE ASHRAE Technical symposium 2014 in Dublin next month on ‘A comparison of the CIBSE Guide A and TM52 overheating criteria for a range of building types’ The aim of the research was to investigate how the same building performs with different compliance criteria. Three different building […]

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik, Events, Research
Mar, 20, 2014
Comments Off on Claire to present at CIBSE ASHRAE Technical symposium 2014

Claire peer reviews CIBSE’s new AM11

Claire is a long-standing technical peer reviewer for CIBSE (The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) and has recently reviewed CIBSE’s updated Applications Manual 11 on Building Performance Modelling. This update is a complete revision of the previously published Manual AM11 and covers topics such as – thermal and energy modelling – ventilation modelling […]

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik
Feb, 07, 2014
Comments Off on Claire peer reviews CIBSE’s new AM11

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 […]

Post Tagged with Other

Posted by Susie Diamond
Posted in Awards, CIBSE, Susie Diamond
Nov, 25, 2013
Comments Off on Susie judges CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2014

Category Archives: CIBSE