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.

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.

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.

Susie has been working with the Future Homes Hub and others to better understand the implications of AD-O.
Here are some of her (constantly evolving) personal opinions on the subject.

Inkling are proud to have been on the working group delivering the newly published 2022 update to CIBSE TM54.

In December 2021 the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (formally known as MHCLG) published updates to the building regulations which included the introduction of AD-O. Here’s our take.

Inkling first started providing building physics consultancy in September 2011. Since then we have achieved a great deal to be proud about.

Susie has collaborated once again with Julie Godefroy on behalf of the GHA for Woodknowledge Wales to write guidance on the use of BPE to help deliver high quality new homes.
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

Inkling were very excited to win the tender to produce a new Good Homes Alliance tool to assess overheating risk in new homes at the early design stage, back in October 2018: https://inklingllp.com/2018/10/17/inkling-win-gha-tender-for-overheating-research/ Susie has worked closely with Julie Godefroy (Julie Godefroy Sustainability) and Nicola O’Connor (Mandarin Research) with support and feedback from an expert

We were asked by the CIBSE Journal to respond to a recent Telegraph article that criticised the modelling community and pointing the finger at us for the performance gap. Our response was printed in the June edition and we’ve reproduced it below.

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.