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.
The #Ecobuild100 aims to provide a comprehensive list of the most useful and insightful sustainable construction, design and built environment oriented Twitter accounts. The list is comprised of public nominations, from which the Ecobuild team has carefully selected the final 100 based on relevant content, engagement and Klout score.
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
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
On 23rd September Susie spoke at a CIBSE organised event disseminating the new TM52 “The limits of thermal comfort: avoiding overheating in European buildings”. The event was well attended and the presentations given (including Susie’s) are available here: http://www.cibsetraining.co.uk/component/content/article/2973
http://www.cibsepresidentblog.co.uk/2013/07/energy-engineering-conscience-susie.html
Susie Diamond is delighted to have been asked to be a judge for the CIBSE Building Performance awards for a second year running. http://www.cibseawards.org/judging/susie-diamond/
http://www.evecracker.com/blog/00910/susie-diamond-my-story/
It’s not rocket science, but even if it was, engineers should be able to find the answer to recruiting more women into senior positions This morning, The Guardian published an article that I had been working on about the lack of women retained in the profession, WiBSE, and my personal experiences working in the built
More press about the Rising Star Awards 2013 this morning in Building magazine!
UK Green Building Council + PRP Architects conceived the Rising Star Award in memory of Mel Starrs, a prominent built environment practitioner and PRP employee who sadly and suddenly passed away in July 2012. The inaugural Rising Star award is to highlight the work of a built environment professional who has made a real difference
We were delighted to be to take a spot in the #BDTwitter100 Top 10 Consultants to follow on Twitter! Building Design said that the “top 10 were selected based on a number of factors: perceived usefulness of their recent Twitter activity, visible interactions with other architecture professionals, evidence of specialist knowledge sharing and the influence
