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October 2010 ENERGY CHECK Sainsbury's under the spotlight BLACK WATER How to recycle foul waste FUEL CELLS Harnessing hydrogen power Refi t takes off Terminal gets M&E facelift Performance www.cibsejournal.com Enter the CIBSEClosing Building date 8 October 2010 Awards 2011See pageNOW 14 CIBSEoct10 pp01 cover.indd 1 24/9/10 15:39:13 The Zip HydroTap delivers boiling and chilled filtered drinking water instantly. boiling+chilled So convenient. There’s no more water to boil and no more bottled water to buy, transport or store. Zip HydroTap is safer than a kettle. The tap stays cool filtered water to the touch, has a safety lock and can be easily installed on a free-standing font (shown) or at a sink. To find out more about the exciting Zip HydroTap please instantly call 0845 602 4533 or visit www.zipheaters.co.uk 2 CIBSE Journal October 2010 www.cibsejournal.com p02_CIBSEMagOct10.indd 2 20/9/10 14:23:01 Contents October 2010 44 38 57 News 28 Legal column Learning Don’t rest on your laurels just 6 News because the new Parts L and F of the 63 Design masterclass part 3 Top stories include: UK to extend Building Regulations are due out this The mechanics of room air ‘green deal’ for homes and month – prepare for the next round. movement. businesses; institutions demand 67 CPD more coordination of building regs. Features The application of gas absorption 19 CIBSE News COVER STORY heat pumps in a variety of buildings. What does climate change mean for 30 Terminal refit takes off at you?; getting the BEST from training; London Heathrow Classified Soft Landings Down Under. How one of the world’s busiest 72 Products airports was transformed into a The latest products and services 22 Young contenders prepare high-quality, modern building. for battle currently available in the industry. 38 Tall order We take a look at the credentials of 76 Directory An innovative approach to water this year’s six hopefuls fighting for the Suppliers for building services and recycling in a new London dockside 15th CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of the related industries. Year award. development. 44 Greening the aisles People & Jobs The second in a series of CIBSE- Opinion sponsored studies takes a critical look 77 Looking ahead 24 Letters at a ‘green’ supermarket. The low carbon challenge, plus events and training across the sector. We need more POE data; outliving its 50 All for one illuminance usefulness; and, stop this One hotel ‘greens up’ its 79 Appointments street-light wastage. environmental credentials using clean Find your next job here and online at jobs.cibsejournal.com 26 Opinion heat and power technologies. Why industry is still operating in the 57 The power of hydrogen 82 People dark when it comes to the great A client throws convention to the Farah Naz explains how she breathes British refurb. wind and installs a hydrogen fuel cell. life to new buildings. www.cibsejournal.com October 2010 CIBSE Journal 3 CIBSEoct10 pp03 contents.indd 3 23/9/10 17:55:33 4 CIBSE Journal October 2010 www.cibsejournal.com p04_CIBSEMagOct10.indd 4 20/9/10 14:23:52 Editorial www.cibsejournal.com Editorial From the Editor: Bob Cervi Tel: 01223 273520 Email: [email protected] Reporter: Carina Bailey Tel: 01223 273521 Email: [email protected] editor Senior designer: David Houghton Technical editor: Tim Dwyer Advertisement sales Learning curves – and blind alleys Sales manager: Jim Folley Tel: 020 7324 2786 Email: [email protected] f you believe the rhetoric of the coalition sustainable buildings group, AECB (see News, Sales consultant: Mark Palmer Tel: 020 7324 2785 government – which of course is simply page 10). A separate study of heat pumps by the Email: [email protected] Sales executive: Darren Hale repeating the mantra of its Labour Energy Saving Trust raises concerns about the Tel: 0207 880 6206 Email: [email protected] predecessor – the green-technology industry performance, design and commissioning of this Recruitment sales: Stephen Fontana I has the potential to provide major sources of new technology (see page 8). Such tests and trials of Tel: 020 7324 2787 Email: [email protected] jobs and wealth in Britain. That claim, like much installations are, of course, crucial to identifying Advertising production: Jane Easterman of the technology that is presented as the best what works best and where. But, under pressure Tel: 020 7880 6248 Email: [email protected] thing since sliced bread, is so much hot air. There to become a cleantech nation, we are in danger For CIBSE is no sign yet that ‘cleantech’, whether in the of proliferating certain ‘solutions’ before Publishing co-ordinator: Nicola Hurley automotive, energy or indeed building services establishing whether they are any such thing. Tel: 020 8772 3697 Email: [email protected] sectors, will grow so dramatically in just a matter The UK government’s planned Renewables Editorial advisory panel of years. The simple reason for this is that such Heat Incentive and the push for feed-in tariffs are Laurence Aston, Director, Buro Happold technologies need a lot of investment to emerge, cases in point. Wholly laudable as they are, these David Clark, Partner, Max Fordham Consulting Engineers and when they do so, they take a considerable carrots need to be provided with some thorough Patrick Conaghan, Partner, Hoare Lea amount of time to and serious health warnings Consulting Engineers David Hughes, Building Services Consultant, establish themselves in about the technologies and MTT Consulting the marketplace as both Users and installation services that are Philip King, Director, Hilson Moran Chani Leahong, Senior Associate, effective and affordable currently available. Fulcrum Consulting installers Alan Tulla, President, The Society of Light green solutions. A less widespread but po- and Lighting In the building services should be at tentially powerful technology Professor John Swaffield, CIBSE Past President engineering sector this is the heart of our is electricity generated by hy- Ged Tyrrell, Managing Director, very apparent when it comes drogen fuel cells, which have Tyrrell Systems cleantech Ant Wilson, Director, AECOM to heating technologies. been adopted for a number Morwenna Wilson, Graduate Engineer, Arup Responding to the carrots future of commercial and public Terry Wyatt, Consultant to Hoare Lea Christopher Pountney, Graduate Engineer, and sticks of national and sector developments (see AECOM local government regulations and incentives, page 57). All credit to Transport for London CIBSE Journal is written and produced by Cambridge Publishers Ltd. Tel: 01223 477411. www.cpl.biz manufacturers in the sector rush headlong into and others for taking a lead in applying this 275 Newmarket Road, Cambridge CB5 8JE. Editorial copy deadline: First day of the month developing and promoting various types of boiler, technology; we now need to sit back and take a preceding the publication month heat pump and combined-heat-power service. cool look at the various performance outcomes, The opinions expressed in editorial material do not necessarily represent the views of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). Unless specifically Commercial and residential property owners when they become available, before rushing stated, goods or services mentioned in editorial or advertisements are not formally endorsed by CIBSE, which and users become the guinea pigs for these to judgement. does not guarantee or endorse or accept any liability for any goods and/or services featured in this publication. green ‘solutions’; eventually we discover that the As another recent study – this time on smart CIBSE, 222 Balham High Road, London SW12 9BS Tel: 020 8675 5211. www.cibse.org technology either doesn’t work as it’s supposed meters (see page 12) – underlines, a great deal ©CIBSE Services Ltd. ISSN 1759-846X to, and/or it has been badly commissioned, by of the success of cleantech is down to the level Subscription Enquiries If you are not a CIBSE member but would like to receive CIBSE Journal, subscribe now! Costs are £80 (UK) and which time, for the user it is too late to turn back of knowledge, understanding and commitment £100 (international). For subscription enquiries, and any change of address information, please contact: the clock. that users can bring to it operationally. And Nicola Hurley at [email protected] or telephone 020 8772 3697.Individual copies are also available at a cost To take one example: the stampede by local this is where the politicians have a duty to put of £7 per copy plus postage. Cover photo courtesy of Morgan Sindall authorities towards specifying biomass boilers as education of users and installers at the heart of Professional Services part of the process of meeting local renewables our cleantech future. targets is certainly cause for concern. Some of the questions surrounding this technology Bob Cervi, Editor ABC audited circulation: 19,728 January to December 2009 have been succinctly stated in a study by the [email protected] www.cibsejournal.com October 2010 CIBSE Journal 5 CIBSEoct10 pp05 editorial.indd 5 23/9/10 17:25:43 News News in brief UK to extend ‘green deal’ Huhne aims to be greenest Energy Secretary Chris Huhne for homes to businesses told last month’s Liberal Democrat annual conference The coalition government amount of investment per building, homes in the UK could save, on that the coalition government’s n has confirmed that it intends she said. average, around £550 per year. ambition was to be ‘the greenest to extend its ‘Green Deal’ initiative Ministers are aiming to extend All measures paid for through government ever’. He said its for retrofitting Britain’s homes to the scheme to 2.8m businesses the scheme, for both domestic and ‘Green Deal’, aimed at creating nearly 3m businesses.