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October 2009 Carbon agenda Client develops energy strategy YOUNG RECRUITS Can school diplomas ease the skills gap? WHAT GREEN SHOOTS? Company boss warns of more pain to come INDUSTRIAL HEATING Sector's latest trends and technologies www.cibsejournal.com 2 CIBSE Journal October 2009 www.cibsejournal.com p02_CIBSEMagOct09.indd 2 18/9/09 09:52:07 Contents October 2009 40 44 48 News 28 Legal column Classified British Standards and their use in 8 News specifications. 54 Products Top stories include: concerns over A range of products and services a surprise fall in air conditioning available from manufacturers in the inspections; and, a review of the Features building services arena. construction sector gets under way. 30 Interview 56 Directory Chief executive of NG Bailey Mark 16 CIBSE News A guide to suppliers in the industry. Andrews explains why the construction First survey of Low Carbon Energy sector has more pain yet to come. Assessors shows positive feedback. People & Jobs 36 Uncertain course 18 News analysis 59 CPD What are the benefits of vocational The role of building services The monthly personal development diplomas to building services? engineers looks set to change under module, which this time covers basic plans for a construction sector review. 40 Towering example psychrometric processes. How the Tower of London broke free 64 Looking ahead Opinion of its inefficient energy chains. Courses, training and conferences in 22 Letters 44 COVER STORY coming weeks. Micro-renewables do make sense; ambiguities in solar thermal advice. Measure for Measure 66 Appointments Small energy efficiencies add up to big Find your new building services job 24 Step into the limelight savings at client Leisure Connection, a here and online at: Why young engineers need to banish CIBSE Low Carbon Awards winner. http://jobs.cibsejournal.com their bashfulness. 48 Heat is on for system efficiency 70 Movers and Shakers 26 It’s all in the code The commercial and industrial Grant James at ABS London explains Part L of the Building Regulations is heating sector is pushing the his role as mechanical contracts wrong; it is better to follow the SLL boundaries of technology in pursuit director, plus a range of job moves Code for lighters. of energy efficiency. and appointments in the sector. www.cibsejournal.com October 2009 CIBSE Journal 3 Natural History More than 2,000 years ago Wind Towers in the also created the future of natural ventilation with Middle East were used to provide buildings Sola-boost. Using solar energy to drive an integral with natural ventilation. Today, Monodraught fan Sola-boost increases the fl ow of fresh air Windcatcher natural ventilation systems use through the Windcatcher system to improve the the same principles. With the added benefi t of natural ventilation rate or, when there is no wind, sophisticated control dampers and intelligent to create a downdraught of fresh natural air. Even control systems, Windcatchers are harnessing when external temperatures are 25°C+. This is the power of the wind, applying atmospheric achievable, sustainable energy from Monodraught. principles, bringing fresh air into buildings using only renewable wind energy. Monodraught has © Kavandi. Dowlat Abad House Baadgir, Iran Abad House Baadgir, Dowlat © Kavandi. 4 CIBSE Journal October 2009 www.cibsejournal.com p04_CIBSEMagOct09.indd 4 18/9/09 09:53:05 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] Senior Designer: David Houghton editor Advertisement Sales Head of Business Development: Aaron Nicholls Tel: 020 7880 8547 Email: [email protected] Sustaining the agenda Sales Manager: Steve Soffe Tel: 020 7324 2785 Email: [email protected] hose pessimists who thought that The problem is, this leads us into crystal-ball Display Sales Consultant: Jim Folley Tel: 020 7324 2786 the worldwide economic recession gazing. Keith Clarke, the Atkins boss who will Email: [email protected] Senior Sales Executive: would be an enormous setback for initially lead the new task force for developing the Leon Dominion Tel: 020 7880 6206 sustainability appear to be being construction low-carbon agenda, predicts that, in Email: [email protected] Tproved wrong. Not only have China and India 10 years’ time, building services engineers will Senior Recruitment Sales: Ali Scott Tel: 020 7324 2787 given a huge boost to hopes for a carbon- be chiefly preoccupied with ‘building physics’ – Email: [email protected] Advertising Production: Jane Easterman cutting agreement at the climate change talks designing for low-carbon fabrics and technologies Tel: 020 7880 6248 in Copenhagen next month, but the drive for rather than specifying a load of mechanical plant Email: [email protected] such as fans and pipes. But, of course, what For CIBSE sustainable industry moves on. Publishing Co-ordinator: Nicola Hurley When Britain’s Business Secretary Lord these technologies are and who will pay for their Tel: 020 8772 3697 Email: [email protected] Mandelson took up his post a year ago, I was development and installation, lies only within Editorial advisory panel highly sceptical about his green credentials – the crystal ball. Existing renewables technology Laurence Aston, Director of Mechanical Engineering, Morgan Professional Services wasn’t he a buddy of big business and unlikely to is proving difficult enough to make work and David Clark, Partner, Max Fordham offer environmental leadership? Well, the answer to fund. And Clarke seems to have his eye on Consulting Engineers Patrick Conaghan, Partner, Hoare Lea is both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. the commercial and industrial Consulting Engineers First with aerospace and property sectors; what about David Hughes, Building Services Consultant, MTT Consulting manufacturing, and now It is now the knotty problem of existing Philip King, Director, Hilson Moran with construction, he is residential properties, which Chani Leahong, Senior Associate, clear that Fulcrum Consulting pushing for a low-carbon overall have been making little Stephen Lisk, President, The Society of Light and Lighting agenda that would be the built environment headway with becoming more Professor John Swaffield, CIBSE Past President driven by cutting-edge can and should be at sustainable? Ged Tyrrell, Managing Director, technologies – which As ever, the best course to Tyrrell Systems the heart of the new Ant Wilson, Director, AECOM ultimately would be very steer is between the optimists Morwenna Wilson, Graduate Engineer, Arup good for businesses and global drive and pessimists. The creation Terry Wyatt, Consultant to Hoare Lea the economy (see pages to cut carbon of the task force – the CIBSE Journal is written and produced by Cambridge 8, 12 and 18). Construction Innovation and Publishers Ltd. Tel: 01223 477411. www.cpl.biz 275 Newmarket Road, Cambridge CB5 8JE. This strategy certainly emissions Growth Team, to be led by a Editorial copy deadline: First day of the month preceding the publication month makes sense for new chief construction officer, The opinions expressed in editorial material do not necessarily represent the views of the Chartered Institution manufacturing, for example with greener cars when he or she is appointed – is an extremely of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). Unless specifically stated, goods or services mentioned in editorial or and new fuel technologies such as hydrogen important development for the sector, and advertisements are not formally endorsed by CIBSE, which does not guarantee or endorse or accept any liability for any goods and/or services featured in this publication. cells. But, when it comes to the construction reflects the seriousness with which the UK CIBSE, 222 Balham High Road, London SW12 9BS Tel: 020 8675 5211. www.cibse.org sector, the task is less clear and probably more government regards it. All parts of the sector ©CIBSE Services Ltd. ISSN 1759-846X tricky. Mandelson seems to want the UK now need to do what they can to help the task Subscription Enquiries If you are not a CIBSE member but would like to receive sector to become a world leader, in business force achieve its aims. Few can now doubt that CIBSE Journal, subscribe now! Costs are £80 (UK) and £100 (international). For subscription enquiries, and any terms, through the delivery of new low-carbon tackling climate change is becoming the top change of address information, please contact: Nicola Hurley at [email protected] or telephone 020 8772 3697. technologies. In the face both of the recession global priority for world leaders; and it is also Individual copies are also available at a cost of £7 per copy plus postage. and the huge challenge to radically reduce clear that the built environment can and should Cover photo: Courtesy of BDP greenhouse gas emissions, the optimists would be at the heart of that common goal. ABC audited circulation: 19,851 argue that technology will come to the rescue, February to April 2009 by delivering economic growth and beating the Bob Cervi, Editor climate change challenge. [email protected] www.cibsejournal.com October 2009 CIBSE Journal 5 6 CIBSE Journal October 2009 www.cibsejournal.com p06/07_CIBSEMagOct09.indd 6 18/9/09 09:54:23 www.cibsejournal.com October 2009 CIBSE Journal 7 p06/07_CIBSEMagOct09.indd 7 18/9/09 09:54:38 News Rules on Alarm raised over surprise drop low-carbon buildings in inspection of aircon systems Concerns have been raised Industry commentators have trading standards officers, who hit by ‘poor n over figures showing a suggested that the fall-off in enforce the inspections. fall in the number of inspection inspection work contracts being The threat of fines of only £300 enforcement assessments of air conditioning placed reflects a lack of awareness for non-compliance, compared systems, the Journal has learned. or even willingness to comply with with the £2,000 average cost of regime’ The drop comes despite the inspection requirements.
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