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Think in £s not kWhs and Start Reaping the Rewards
Often considered an unwelcome expense, the truth is that investing in energy saving initiatives offers significant financial benefits, as well as enhancing an organisation’s environmental credentials....
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Smart Building Conference – The Human Factor
On 7th October I attended the SmartBuilding Conference in central London, in the course of which we were treated to the views of a range of industry-experts including BSRIA’s own Jeremy Towler. Like...
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The BIM Level 2 jigsaw – nearly complete?
In my blog article back in June I discussed how the UK Government had refined its Level 2 BIM requirement and express it in the form of compliance with seven components: PAS 1192-2:2013 Specification...
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Emerging themes from Innovate UK’s BPE programme
Back in May 2010, Innovate UK (formally TSB) embarked on four year programme, providing £8m funding to support case study investigations of domestic new build and non-domestic new build and major...
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Global BEMS Market set to Approach $7 billion by 2020
If I could point to a market which is already worth some $3.5 billion, or 3 billion Euros, and which is growing globally at well over 10% per annum, at a time when growth in building automation is a...
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Disparate Calls For Disparate Measures
I’m Mark Glitherow, Key Account Manager at Trend, and in this blog I’ll explain why devising and implementing an energy management strategy across a number of disparate buildings needn’t be as daunting...
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BSRIA Diamond Group Forum – A glimpse of the future?
How buildings can improve productivity and wellbeing will continue to be one of the most researched questions over the next decade. This touches all aspects of building design, construction, use, and...
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Why the industry needs to be uncomfortable with current ways of working
I am delighted to have this opportunity to contribute a blog – particularly at a time when a hugely influential industry like BSRIA is exploring the need for the industry to change its processes. I...
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Using Robotic Total Stations to drive down the cost of construction
Since the days of the Latham report in 1994 there has been a desire to cut the cost of construction, mainly by finding more efficient ways of doing things. Of course, there will always be people who...
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Betting on the general election? Think again
There are number of ways of predicting the outcome of the general election and an equal number of ways of being wildly incorrect. Bookmakers across the land are considering the 7th May to be a field...
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BSRIA relaunches Topic Guides
BSRIA is pleased to announce the relaunch of our information topic guides with the first release of this ‘At a Glance’ series TG07/2015 At a Glance – Airtightness available to download from the BSRIA...
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Being a Young Engineer
What is it like to be a young Engineer? I think it’s fair to say the term Engineer in itself is very broad so for the purpose of this blog my focus is my discipline, Building Services Engineering. So...
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The practicalities of classification in a BIM Level 2 environment
I first raised the issue of classification in the BSRIA blog back in March 2014 – my, how time flies. As you would expect (or at least hope) things have moved on and there are some issues within the...
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Ideas competition – How would you make buildings better?
BSRIA and Designing Buildings Wiki are giving you the chance to win £500 of BSRIA membership, training or publications and to be featured in Delta T magazine by suggesting ways that buildings can be...
View ArticleConstruction quality could be catching up with other industries
If you order steak and chips at a restaurant, but the waiter delivers hake in strips, you would be rightly annoyed. Instinctively you blame the waiter, but it could have been a problem with the...
View ArticleIntroducing….BG71/2017 Building Services Reports
Anyone involved in technical work can appreciate the challenges presented when trying to communicate their ideas, information, proposals or recommendations to others. To be effective an engineer must...
View ArticleBSRIA and our approach to BIM
As part of an upcoming BIM blog series following on from the Open BIM REC webinar series BSRIA answered the following questions. What has been the key to your success with BIM? The key to a successful...
View ArticleThe importance of investigating failures in building services
In May 2009, a lift at London’s Tower Bridge tourist attraction suffered a vital mechanism failure that sent it falling with 9 people in it, four of whom suffered bone fractures. The malfunction was...
View ArticleAcoustics in the workplace – What’s the “new normal”?
Occupant wellbeing was a prominent consideration prior to lockdown, and this included provision of a good acoustic environment, but how are new COVID-secure workplaces affecting the acoustic environment?
View ArticleMaintenance of drainage systems to prevent flooding and water pollution
As with maintenance of any building services systems, the first step is to know what you’ve got. Every site should have a drainage plan, showing which drains are located where, what direction they flow...
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