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UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard Pilot

The much anticipated Pilot Version of the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard was published on 24th September 2024. The Standard and associated documents can be downloaded here.  This document has been long in the making and has been developed thanks to a vast collaboration between a wide range of stakeholders in the UK built […]

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Visit to Energy House 2.0

I was excited to be invited to visit the Energy House 2.0 facility at the University of Salford at the end of September. https://energyhouselabs.salford.ac.uk/ This is one of the largest building test facilities in the world, with 2 large open spaces, big enough to incorporate 4 full sized family homes for testing and monitoring purposes. […]

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Site visit to Cambridge Mosque

Last week I (Susie) had the opportunity to visit the very beautiful and RIBA award-winning Cambridge Central Mosque, which was completed in 2019. I visited with the design team appointed to work on a new mosque in Havering, East London that is drawing inspiration from Cambridge, albeit on a more modest budget. We were lucky […]

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Marcus gains Chartered Engineer status

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An important milestone in the career of any engineer is to achieve chartered status and we are therefore delighted to announce that Marcus has had his application for CIBSE Member (CEng MCIBSE) approved. In the words of CIBSE, this status is reserved for those “engaged in leadership roles with technical responsibility, developing solutions to complex […]

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Claire marks 10 years with Inkling

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I became a partner at Inkling in September 2013. To celebrate my first 10 (and a half) years at Inkling I have been looking back at some of my achievements during that time, it turns out I have been quite busy! In 2014 I became a CIBSE Fellow (2014), the most senior grade of CIBSE […]

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Winners!!

We are thrilled to have won Consultancy of the year (up to 50 employees) at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2024 last month. <CR> This recognition means the world to us. We are very fortunate to work with some amazing clients and collaborators (you know who you are), and we are grateful to the CIBSE […]

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Inkling team photos

We took the opportunity of all being in the same place at the same time for our 2023 Christmas get-together to have some pictures taken of the whole Inkling team. We booked the kind and helpful Joscha Mayer to do the honours in the Granary square area behind Kings Cross, and we are really pleased […]

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Delivering Net Zero

This blog post is a hymn to collaboration. Late last year Inkling were delighted to be invited to collaborate with four other consultancies on a piece of work commissioned by a consortium of 18 London Boroughs. In light of a revision to Part L, the boroughs worked together to procure this research to help inform […]

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Susie wins a CIBSE medal

Susie was delighted to receive a CIBSE bronze medal during the proceedings at the Technical Symposium in Glasgow last month. The nomination was for a range of contributions she has made to CIBSE and industry over the last 20 years.

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Part O – the Inkling appraisal – Part 3

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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. A lot of my concerns regarding the complexity of the Approved Document including the ‘simplified method’ and ensuring that all the fiddly requirements are met pre-planning to avoid costly redesign […]

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