Technical
September 2022
Ideal Heating Launches ECOMOD Natural Refrigerant Commercial Heat Pumps
The model is the first of a series next generation ECOMOD heat pumps to be released this…
May 2024
Driving advanced digital solutions for building services engineering: help shape the future of AEC products
Autodesk provides various channels and communities for you to share your feedback and insights. Learn how you…
May 2024
Sensible cooling: avoiding overcooling in buildings
When spaces are cooled to uncomfortable temperatures, negative impacts are seen on people’s health and the environment. Tim Dwyer looks at a new paper that…
September 2022
Cooling
The value chain: blockchain in the built environment
Blockchain is fuelling the digitisation of the built environment by providing a secure method of data exchange. IN2 Engineering’s Samreet Singh explores how it could…
September 2022
blockchain
Keeping it clean: award-winning UV-C lighting
The germicidal effects of UV light were discovered in 1877. Now, in the shadow of Covid-19, an application of UV-C is winning plaudits and a CIBSE…
September 2022
Lighting
Lessons from Nabers: how advanced modelling is transforming services design
Key to attaining a Nabers operational rating for a commercial building is the creation of a dynamic energy simulation model that closely predicts actual operational…
July 2022
Facing up to embodied carbon in façades
Façades account for up to 30% of a building’s embodied carbon, which is why the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology is working to produce…
June 2022
Embodied carbon
CIBSE awards data: fuller disclosure
CIBSE pioneered the disclosure of building performance data in its awards, giving the industry a unique opportunity to compare and share. Julie Godefroy analyses figures…
June 2022
Technical knockout: the 2022 CIBSE Technical Symposium
The CIBSE Technical Symposium returned as an in-person event for the first time since the Covid pandemic, with delegates given plenty to think about over the two days of…
June 2022
How desalination affects chiller energy use in the Middle East
When comparing the energy use of air-chilled and water-cooled chillers, power used in desalination plants must be taken into account in places such as the…
June 2022
Air conditioning
Clear evidence: applying cleanroom technology to commercial buildings
Cleanroom ventilation systems are used to ensure pathogen-free indoor spaces in life science buildings, but can the technology be used in commercial offices? Clean Air…
June 2022
COVID
Calculating whole life carbon in heating and cooling systems
To minimise carbon emissions from heating and cooling, the whole life of a system must be taken into account. Hoare Lea’s Will Belfield and Mathew Stark…
April 2022
Embodied carbon
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