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Tag Archives: overheating

Nerd alert! Do the automation

Automation opens up huge potential to make modelling software work harder so that I can focus my attention on the tasks that need a human brain – getting the initial model creation right, and interpreting the results.

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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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Part O – the Inkling appraisal – Part 2

This blog follows on from one published in February that you can read here: https://inklingllp.com/2022/02/15/part-o-the-inkling-appraisal/ The new Part O of the Building Regulations comes into force in under 3 months. DLUHC are adamant that these tough new criteria will be beneficial for reducing overheating risk across all new homes built under them. I have been working […]

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New Building Regulation: Part O – the Inkling appraisal

In December 2021 the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (formally known as MHCLG) published updates to the building regulations which will come into force in June this year. Changes to Part F and Part L have pulled most of the focus in the press and on social media, but this post is about […]

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Inkling research featured in CIBSE journal

Our collaborative Carter Bronze medal-winning research paper ‘Predictions of summertime overheating: comparison of dynamic thermal models and measurements in synthetically occupied test houses’ features in the September 2020 CIBSE Journal Claire and Susie worked alongside partners from Hilson Moran and Loughborough University to produce the joint research paper.

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Inkling awarded CIBSE Carter Bronze Medal for overheating research paper

Inkling have been awarded the prestigious CIBSE Carter Bronze medal for research into summertime overheating prediction in UK homes. Claire and Susie worked alongside partners from Hilson Moran and Loughborough University to produce the joint research paper ‘Predictions of summertime overheating: Comparison of dynamic thermal models and measurements in synthetically occupied test houses’. The research […]

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Inkling co-author new GHA overheating tool

Inkling were very excited to win the tender to produce a new Good Homes Alliance tool to assess overheating risk in new homes at the early design stage, back in October 2018: https://inklingllp.com/2018/10/17/inkling-win-gha-tender-for-overheating-research/ Susie has worked closely with Julie Godefroy (Julie Godefroy Sustainability) and Nicola O’Connor (Mandarin Research) with support and feedback from an expert […]

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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 co-author new Zero Carbon Hub publication on overheating

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Claire and Susie have recently co-authored a new Zero Carbon Hub publication ‘Assessing Overheating Risk – Evidence Review’, which was launched at EcoBuild 2015.   This Evidence Review forms part of a wider evidence gathering exercise being conducted by the Zero Carbon Hub for the ‘Tackling Overheating in Homes’ project. It provides a summary of […]

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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 […]

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