Claire attends Service of Thanksgiving to celebrate The Year of Engineering

On Thursday 22nd November 2018 I attended a Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey with colleagues from CIBSE to celebrate The Year of Engineering 2018. The service was led by John Hall, Dean of Westminster and included personal testimonies from engineers about how engineering has changed their lives. These included an inspiring and moving testimony from Roma […]

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Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
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Nov, 23, 2018
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Inkling win GHA tender for overheating research!

The tender panel were impressed by the winning bid team’s pertinent experience, well thought-through methodology and enthusiasm for the project. Contract awarded for GHA overheating research project We are very excited to be part of this project with the Good Homes Alliance and our excellent bid team (Julie Godefroy Sustainability and Mandarin Research). A key part […]

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Oct, 17, 2018
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Inkling at Building Simulation and Optimisation 2018 Conference

I represented Inkling at the Building Simulation and Optimisation 2018 Conference at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on 11-12 September. I was able to attend two of the three keynote sessions, the first was from Dr Penny Carey of Portakabin on “Meeting the challenges of improving building standards within the construction industry”. This engaging presentation […]

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Sep, 28, 2018
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Inkling at CIBSE Technical Symposium 2018

Susie represented Inkling at this years Symposium, and as had become traditional, has written up her notes, thoughts and tweets from the event. With the demise of Storify we have moved to Wakelet – here’s the link to the full story: http://wke.lt/w/s/OA0GS If you don’t have time for the whole thing – this is the […]

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Apr, 18, 2018
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There may be trouble ahead

Claire has contributed an article to the RICS Property Journal. The article discusses the effect of the upcoming Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) Regulations on commercial rent reviews and lease renewals. MEES comes into force in under a month’s time on 1st April 2018 and makes it unlawful to let a substandard commercial or domestic […]

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Mar, 05, 2018
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Acoustics vs overheating risk – resolving the tension

Best practice members met on 17th January 2018 to discuss the conundrum of balancing the need to mitigate overheating risk in homes with the competing requirement to maintain a comfortable internal acoustic environment. Bluntly – opening windows to cool an apartment risks increasing the external noise audible inside to unsatisfactory levels. Poor external air quality will also […]

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Posted by Susie Diamond
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Jan, 26, 2018
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Inkling at CIBSE Build2Perform Live

I (Susie) participated in two sessions this year. I spoke on the afternoon of the first day in the session: ‘Designing out domestic overheating risk in challenging urban environments’ The session was chaired by Becci Taylor from Arup. I opened the session with an introduction to CIBSE TM59 (more here) and […]

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Nov, 30, 2017
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BB101 – what’s happening?

We wanted to do some digging to understand what’s happening with the new version of BB101 and what impact it may have on modelling for schools. We thought we’d share what we found in case it is useful to others in the modelling community. Please share and let us know if you have any experience […]

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Oct, 11, 2017
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Inkling respond

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. A recent article in The Telegraph, ‘Energy scandal: misleading efficiency claims leading to huge bills […]

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Jun, 06, 2017
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Inkling and TM59

Inkling are very proud to have been involved in the writing of the new CIBSE TM59 Design methodology for the assessment of overheating risk in homes. Susie was part of the team right from the beginning, participating in the early Zero Carbon Hub workshops and collaborating all the way through to publication with CIBSE, UCL, Arup […]

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May, 22, 2017
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