E-Newsletter October 2009

 
Dear IBPSA-England Member
 
Welcome to the October edition of our quarterly E-newsletter.
 
Six points for you to scan this time.
 
1. Please don't forget to sign up for our event next week (30th October) at Anglia Ruskin University looking at how simulation can help SMEs to deliver innovative building designs and how Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) could help your company weather the current ecomonic climate. For more information visit http://www.ibpsa-england.org/

2. Immediately following our meeting on the 30th October we will hold our General Members Meeting. The main items on this agenda will include: report on past events; discussion of future events; and invitation for board membership.
 
3. The October edition of the IBPSA-news is now available and included as an attachment to this email.

4. Thanks to all of you who contributed views during the recent consultation period for Parts L and F of the Building Regulations. You can view CIBSE's response to CLG's consultation invitation at:
http://www.cibse.org/index.cfm?go=page.view&item=721

5. Following our Chelmsford event, our next event will be a workshop/ expert panel session held at UCL on the evening of December 8th. The workshop will discuss the management of thermal performance risks in buildings subject to climate change. This workshop forms part of an EPSRC-funded research project. The aim of the research is to introduce risk and risk acceptance into the discussion of adapting buildings to climate change. Initial results will be presented to co-researchers and to facilities managers and engineers from practice. The ensuing discussion will cover ongoing efforts in the field, and specifically invites stakeholders to provide a steer on the approach taken. Special guest at the workshop will be Jake Hacker of ARUP and CIBSE TM36 fame. If you would like to attend this event, please email Pieter DeWilde at pieter.dewilde@plymouth.ac.uk by November 20th.
 
6. Finally, advance notice of a large Pan European Symposium we are co-organising for 7-8 January 2010 at UCL on Passive Downdraught Cooling. Further details will appear on the IBPSA-England website soon.
 
Hope to see some of you next week.
 
Regards
Malcolm Cook
IBPSA-England Chair
 
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Dr Malcolm Cook
Reader in Building Performance Modelling Department of Civil and Building Engineering Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
 
Tel: +44 (0)1509 22 2816
Fax: +44 (0)1509 22 3981
Email: malcolm.cook@lboro.ac.uk