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Decarbonisation District Heating in Southwark

|Date: 11 June, 2024

Decarbonisation District Heating in Southwark

Heat from the chalk aquifer beneath London is being used to heat three South London housing estates by re ...

Heat from the chalk aquifer beneath London is being used to heat three South London housing estates by retrofitting heat pumps to save carbon emissions, explains Anastasia Mylona, Technical Director o ...

11 June, 2024
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CIBSE welcomes new regulations that enable the Building Safety Act to be fully implemented

|Date: 29 August, 2023

CIBSE welcomes new regulations that enable the Building Safety Act to be fully implemented

CIBSE welcomes the publication of new regulations for Higher Risk Buildings (HRBs) and the major changes ...

CIBSE welcomes the publication of new regulations for Higher Risk Buildings (HRBs) and the major changes to the Building Regulations that will enable further elements of the Building Safety Act to be ...

29 August, 2023
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CIBSE | Award winning performance

|Date: 15 June, 2023

CIBSE | Award winning performance

Swansea Council and the Welsh School of Architecture won the Domestic Project of the Year category at thi ...

Swansea Council and the Welsh School of Architecture won the Domestic Project of the Year category at this year's CIBSE Building Performance Awards for the energy efficiency retrofit of six bungalows. ...

15 June, 2023
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Elta Fans on a sustainability charge with new TM65 Embodied Carbon Reports

|Date: 17 February, 2023

Elta Fans on a sustainability charge with new TM65 Embodied Carbon Reports

Elta Fans is pioneering the industry toward Net Zero as it becomes one of the first to offer TM65 Embodie ...

Elta Fans is pioneering the industry toward Net Zero as it becomes one of the first to offer TM65 Embodied Carbon reports for its building services products. Created by CIBSE in 2021 (the Chartered In ...

17 February, 2023
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Building safety and zero carbon headline at CIBSE event

|Date: 22 November, 2022

Building safety and zero carbon headline at CIBSE event

Practical actions on building safety and accelerating the UK's progress to meeting its 2050 net zero emis ...

Practical actions on building safety and accelerating the UK's progress to meeting its 2050 net zero emissions target are the focus subjects of this year's Build2Perform Live, the flagship event of th ...

22 November, 2022
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New conference series supports professionals in delivering a safer built environment

|Date: 7 July, 2022

New conference series supports professionals in delivering a safer built environment

CIBSE and the Society of Digital Engineering (SDE) are launching a new series of conferences, providing c ...

CIBSE and the Society of Digital Engineering (SDE) are launching a new series of conferences, providing clarity and a practical understanding of the Building Safety Act and the Golden Thread requireme ...

7 July, 2022
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Grenfell is the building industry’s Piper Alpha says CIBSE

|Date: 21 June, 2022

Grenfell is the building industry’s Piper Alpha says CIBSE

The recent passage of the Building Safety Act is a welcome recognition of the fact that making safe build ...

The recent passage of the Building Safety Act is a welcome recognition of the fact that making safe buildings is a highly skilled operation says the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineer ...

21 June, 2022
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Coalition of leading industry bodies join forces to develop UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard

|Date: 13 May, 2022

Coalition of leading industry bodies join forces to develop UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard

A cross-industry steering group, representing stakeholders across the built environment, have joined toge ...

A cross-industry steering group, representing stakeholders across the built environment, have joined together to develop a standard for verifying UK buildings as net zero carbon. The UKGBC’s Whole Lif ...

13 May, 2022
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Committee on Climate Change calls for UK to “end its contribution to global warming” by 2050

|Date: 3 May, 2019

Committee on Climate Change calls for UK to “end its contribution to global warming” by 2050

In ‘Net Zero — the UK’s contribution to stopping climate change’, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) c ...

In ‘Net Zero — the UK’s contribution to stopping climate change’, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) calls for the UK to adopt a new, net zero* greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050, and large-sc ...

3 May, 2019
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Good practice in the design of homes

|Date: 13 July, 2018

Good practice in the design of homes

Ashley Bateson from CIBSE explains the value of engineering and the early involvement of engineers in ens ...

Ashley Bateson from CIBSE explains the value of engineering and the early involvement of engineers in ensuring good practice in the design of homes. There is a growing body of evidence of a performanc ...

13 July, 2018
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