Susie: 07972 263 676Visit to Energy House 2.0
I was excited to be invited to visit the Energy House 2.0 facility at the University of Salford at the end of September. https://energyhouselabs.salford.ac.uk/ This is one of the largest building test facilities in the world, with 2 large open spaces, big enough to incorporate 4 full sized family homes for testing and monitoring purposes. […]
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Oct, 08, 2024
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Site visit to Cambridge Mosque
Last week I (Susie) had the opportunity to visit the very beautiful and RIBA award-winning Cambridge Central Mosque, which was completed in 2019. I visited with the design team appointed to work on a new mosque in Havering, East London that is drawing inspiration from Cambridge, albeit on a more modest budget. We were lucky […]
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- Sep, 18, 2024
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An issue with g-values
Inkling have recently become aware of a growing trend for specifying the g-value (solar transmittance) of glazing for windows as whole window values, which include the shading effect of the frame, rather than centre pane values where the solar control is purely a property of the glazing. We don’t think it is well understood within […]
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- Sep, 02, 2024
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Delivering Net Zero
This blog post is a hymn to collaboration. Late last year Inkling were delighted to be invited to collaborate with four other consultancies on a piece of work commissioned by a consortium of 18 London Boroughs. In light of a revision to Part L, the boroughs worked together to procure this research to help inform […]
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- Jul, 12, 2023
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CIBSE Technical Symposium 2023
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 (by train #VirtueSignalling) as it’s our favourite CIBSE event of the year. For me, the theme that emerged from this years event can be summed up with these three quotes: 💬 […]
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- Apr, 25, 2023
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Nerd alert! Do the automation
Automation opens up huge potential to make modelling software work harder so that I can focus my attention on the tasks that need a human brain – getting the initial model creation right, and interpreting the results.
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- Feb, 10, 2023
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Part O – the Inkling appraisal – Part 4 (modelling advice)
Susie recently collaborated with Ben Abel and Jack Harvie-Clark for a recent CIBSE Building Simulation Group event for modellers tackling Part O assessments using the Dynamic Thermal Modelling approach. We wanted to put our heads together and give advice on what we think are the trickiest and/or most confusing parts of the analysis as we […]
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- Nov, 18, 2022
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#EndGasNow
We thought hard before signing this pledge as we recognise the challenge that this presents, especially on refurbishment projects, but as part of the building services community we have been convinced that it is our responsibility to lead the charge away from fossil fuels and towards electricity which can be generated renewably. Alongside this shift […]
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- Sep, 14, 2022
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Part O – the Inkling appraisal – Part 3
Part O of the Building Regulations (England) came into force in June 2022. Susie Diamond shares her thoughts on the subject with a 3rd instalment. A lot of my concerns regarding the complexity of the Approved Document including the ‘simplified method’ and ensuring that all the fiddly requirements are met pre-planning to avoid costly redesign […]
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- Jul, 25, 2022
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CIBSE Technical Symposium 2022
Both Susie and Claire attended this years Technical Symposium at London South Bank University 21-22 April this year. We were slightly giddy at being out and about, catching up with people after so long, and mixing with so many humans in one place. As usual there was a great mix of academic researchers and industry […]
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- Apr, 25, 2022
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