These solutions enhance the efficiency and longevity of HVAC systems, while helping to achieve net-zero and decarbonization targets.
Category: Technical
Emergency lighting – UPS or static inverter/CBS? The tale of a penitent man
When disaster strikes, reliable emergency lighting is crucial for safety and evacuation. Therefore, it’s vital that the correct electrical back-up solution is in place.
Light2Perform: treading a circular path
As the lighting industry increasingly focuses on circularity and repair, an expert panel at Light2Perform discussed opportunities and challenges
Renewing tradition: installing PVs on King’s College Chapel
Grade I-listed King’s College Chapel, in Cambridge, is one of the UK’s most revered buildings, so a new photovoltaic array on the roof had to be designed with utmost sensitivity. Alex Smith finds out how Max Fordham’s design satisfied the planners
Doing more with less: interview with SLL president Dan Lister
Lighting design should prioritise people-orientated lighting solutions while reducing embodied and operational carbon, according to SLL president Dan Lister, who tells Molly Tooher-Rudd that lighters should learn lessons from the past, when high costs meant luminaires were used sparingly
Hello darkness, my old friend: award-winning lighting
How three award winners used discreet lighting to highlight heritage structures
Cutting carbon: Whitecroft Lighting’s C2C approach
Whitecroft Lighting won a CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award by adopting lean manufacturing and design to cut life-cycle carbon from its products by up to 46%. Molly Tooher-Rudd speaks to the firm’s Tim Bowes about its circular approach
A guide to trustworthy heat pump design
A new Passivhaus Trust guide to air-to-water heat pumps aims to highlight some of the complex aspects of design that are sometimes missed by experienced engineers, says Warm’s Sally Godber
Kilowatts to Kernow: Decarbonising Cornish housing
In developing a decarbonisation strategy for housing in Cornwall, Etude is recommending a heat pump-first approach for the majority of properties, as Chris Worboys, Naomi Grint and Kate Millen explain
From Covid to Cave: UCL’s living lab
Research into airborne transmission risks during Covid-19 played a pivotal role in re-opening the UK safely and led to the creation of a living lab that promises to reshape our knowledge of indoor environments, says UCL’s Dr Liora Malki-Epshtein