Fine Tuning

Claire has written an article for the Oct 2014 CIBSE Journal on our experience of using TM54. http://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/CIBSE/201410/energy-performance-tm54-review/ CIBSE TM54: Evaluating Operational Energy Performance of Buildings at the Design Stage (2013) was designed to close the performance gap by enabling more accurate modelling of building performance, but how effective is it in the field?

Posted by Susie Diamond
Posted in CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik, Media
Sep, 29, 2014
Comments Off on Fine Tuning

What is adaptive thermal comfort?

Overheating in buildings has historically been quantified by the number of occupied hours per year that the indoor temperature exceeds a particular temperature, irrespective of external temperatures. However, recent research has shown that comfortable room temperature changes with the external air temperature meaning that occupants are comfortable with higher room temperatures during warm weather. This […]

Post Tagged with adaptive thermal comfort, overheating, TM52

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in Research, Training
Jun, 30, 2014
Comments Off on What is adaptive thermal comfort?

Claire Das Bhaumik is now a CIBSE Fellow

Claire Das Bhaumik is proud to be a CIBSE Fellow (‘FCIBSE’). Fellowship is the most senior grade of CIBSE membership. The work of an FCIBSE is characterised by the ability to develop appropriate solutions to engineering problems using new or existing technologies, through innovation, creativity and change. Claire is a Chartered Engineer and […]

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in Awards, CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik
Jun, 05, 2014
Comments Off on Claire Das Bhaumik is now a CIBSE Fellow

Mind the ‘Performance Gap’ – Inkling offering CIBSE TM54 predicted in-use energy modelling

The “Performance Gap” – the difference between design predictions and operational energy use – is a serious issue for our industry. The CarbonBuzz web site shows that many buildings consume between 1.5 and 2.5 times the predicted design energy. In order to address this, the industry needs both better energy-use predictions and a greater […]

Post Tagged with TM54

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in CIBSE, Training
May, 27, 2014
Comments Off on Mind the ‘Performance Gap’ – Inkling offering CIBSE TM54 predicted in-use energy modelling

Isabel working on Land Art Generator competition entry

Isabel has been working with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects on an entry for the Land Art Generator competition. This is the third year of the competition which invites interdisciplinary teams from around the world to submit their ideas for public art that provides utility-scale clean energy to the grid. This year the competition site is in […]

Posted by Susie Diamond
Posted in Competitions, Research
May, 20, 2014
Comments Off on Isabel working on Land Art Generator competition entry

Susie confirmed as CIBSE awards judge 2015

Susie has been confirmed as a member of the judging panel for the CIBSE Building Performance awards 2015. This will be the 3rd year running that she has been a judge. The launch event for the awards takes place at M&S on the 18th June. More info here: http://www.cibse.org/bpalaunch More information about the awards and how […]

Posted by Susie Diamond
Posted in Awards, CIBSE, Susie Diamond
May, 13, 2014
Comments Off on Susie confirmed as CIBSE awards judge 2015

Inkling to offer more training sessions

Following on from our first (sell-out) training day on predicting in-use energy performance (in association with Colin Lillicrap): http://www.colinlillicrapassociates.co.uk/8.html which took place on 7th May (the next date with places still available is 4th June – follow the link to book); we are now working with Sarah Davis at Skills4Stem to develop further #BuildingPhysics related training sessions […]

Posted by Susie Diamond
Posted in Training
May, 07, 2014
Comments Off on Inkling to offer more training sessions

Claire to present at CIBSE ASHRAE Technical symposium 2014

Claire is to present research at the CIBSE ASHRAE Technical symposium 2014 in Dublin next month on ‘A comparison of the CIBSE Guide A and TM52 overheating criteria for a range of building types’ The aim of the research was to investigate how the same building performs with different compliance criteria. Three different building […]

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in CIBSE, Claire Das Bhaumik, Events, Research
Mar, 20, 2014
Comments Off on Claire to present at CIBSE ASHRAE Technical symposium 2014

Part L2A 2013 – “How to pass” – Part 2

The Notional Building To assess carbon compliance with the Part L 2013 building regulations, the building as designed is entered into modelling software and compared to a baseline building known as the ‘Notional’ building. The Notional building is defined by the rules in the NCM modelling guide (for buildings other than dwellings). The following […]

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in Research, Training
Mar, 20, 2014
Comments Off on Part L2A 2013 – “How to pass” – Part 2

Part L2A 2013 – “How to pass” – Part 1

Part L2A 2013 The Building Regulations Approved Document Part L2A 2013 for non-domestic buildings have recently been released. These regulations come into force in England on 6th April 2014. Separate rules apply to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Transitional arrangements will apply and these are the same as for the 2010 regulations update […]

Post Tagged with Part L 2013

Posted by Claire Das Bhaumik
Posted in Research, Training
Mar, 20, 2014
Comments Off on Part L2A 2013 – “How to pass” – Part 1