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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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Inkling at CIBSE Technical Symposium 2018

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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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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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Acoustics vs overheating risk – resolving the tension

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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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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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BB101 – what’s happening?

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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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Inkling respond

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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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Inkling and TM59

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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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Susie’s notes from CIBSE Technical Symposium 2017

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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: https://storify.com/InklingLLP/technical-symposium-2017 moved to https://wakelet.com/wake/867a1968-581c-4553-8b05-74f102cda065 Image tweeted by Tom Corbett‏ @Corbssss Conclusions listed are: The carbon intensity of the UK national grid has […]

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Susie Diamond co presents CIBSE Weather Data Sets Webinar

Susie Diamond co presented the CIBSE Weather Data Sets Webinar on 23rd February 2017 discussing the new CIBSE weather datasets, their key characteristics and their use in practice. The event had over 300 attendees, also speaking were Anastasia Mylona, Research Manager at CIBSE and Dane Virk, Graduate Engineer at ATKINS.

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