NABERS UK for stepped office refurbishments

Claire discusses how NABERS UK can be applied when refurbishment is stepped to coordinate with the expiry of tenant leases.
Claire discusses how NABERS UK can be applied when refurbishment is stepped to coordinate with the expiry of tenant leases.
Claire became a partner at Inkling in September 2013. To celebrate her first 10 (and a half) years at Inkling she looks back at some of her (many) achievements during that time.
Susie and Claire give their feedback on attending (and presenting papers at) the 2024 CIBSE Technical Symposium in Cardiff.
We were beyond thrilled to win CIBSE
Consultancy of the year (up to 50 employees)
at the Building Performance Awards 2024.
We took the opportunity of all being in the same place at the same time for our 2023 Christmas get-together to have some pictures taken of the whole Inkling team.
On 11 October, Claire shared her NABERS UK experiences at a CIBSE BSG Event – “NABERS UK through the lens of a modeller and two members of the IDR”, hosted by Hilson Moran.
This year’s technical symposium took place at Strathclyde University, Glasgow last week (20-21st April). Claire and I both made the journey up from London as it’s our favourite CIBSE event of the year.
Here is Susie’s write-up featuring the tweets sent during the event (embedded below) and her thoughts on the key talking points and themes.
Does everybody need good NABERS?
The National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) has proved itself effective at significantly improving in-use energy performance in (initially mostly office) buildings in the Australian market, and is now being introduced to the UK.
Inkling first started providing building physics consultancy in September 2011. Since then we have achieved a great deal to be proud about.
Inkling are excited to announce that Claire has been appointed as a member of the NABERS UK Independent Design Review panel.
Susie and Claire will be attending the 2020 CIBSE Technical Symposium, which takes place on 16-17th April in Glasgow. This is always a very interesting and well attended event with some thought-provoking papers and great networking. CIBSE are keen to stress that the symposium is not just for academics, but also industry practitioners such as