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Inkling Blog #3: Closing the Building Performance Gap

Our last Blog identified a number of ‘Performance Gaps’ caused by a wide spectrum of conceptual and quality issues ranging from a lack of clarity in the industry regarding building performance criteria to poor build quality on site.   So, what can we do to close these gaps?   As engineers, modellers and designers we […]

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Fine Tuning

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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Susie and Claire attend the ‘Building the future – Women in Construction’ report launch & debate in parliament.

Susie and Claire attended the ‘Building the future – Women in Construction’ report launch & debate in parliament. The report was published by the Smith Institute and edited by Meg Munn MP. Support was given by Wates Giving, Construction Youth Trust and the Construction Industry Training Board.   The report can be found here.  

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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 […]

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Claire writes WiBSE piece for CIBSE YEN newsletter

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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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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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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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Claire takes part in CIBSE HCNW panel discussion on Energy & Behavioural Change

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

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