Please note that the presentations below are the personal views of the presenters who come from around the world so are based on their local understanding, custom and practice. They are made available here to provoke discussion and encourage further research. They must not be used or taken as a statement of any CIBSE or CIBSE ASHRAE Group policy or advice.

Wednesday, May 20th 2020

Unlocking the chain - blockchain from an engineer's perspective

Tom Dwyer

Download slides from Tom's presentation

A video of the presentation is provided below

 

Wednesday, November 27th 2019

Health and Wellness In The Built Environment - An Introduction

Dennis Knight

Download slides from Dennis's presentation (some with extra notes)

A video of the presentation is provided below

 

Wednesday, September 18th 2019

Development of Integrated Design

Andrew Jackson and Matthew Heywood

A video of the presentation is available below

 

Thursday, May 16th 2019

Effective Maintenance, Opportunities and Meeting the Resourcing Skills Gap

Bryan McClaggan

Bryan re-presented his fact-filled white paper on the skills shortage - click to download

 

Thursday March 28th 2019

Delivering zero net energy buildings .....for zero cost increase?

Ed Garrod and Nathan Millar

A video of the presentation is available below

 

Tuesday December 4th 2018

Microgrids- A new market opportunity?

Duncan Childs

Download slides from Duncan Childs presentation

A video of the presentation is available below

 

Wednesday November 14th 2018

Enhancing Building Energy and Environmental Assessment Certification (BEEAC)

Emeka Efe Osaji

Download slides from Emeka Efe Osaji

A video of the presentation is available below

 

Thursday May 10th 2018

Restraining building services systems against explosive blasts and seismic incidents

Jim Tauby

 

Thursday March 22nd 2018

The future of the construction industry in a low-carbon world

Andrew Bowerbank

 

Tuesday February 6th 2018

Employing alternative fuels for Combined Heat and Power

Paul Martin and John Hyde

Download slides from John Hyde

 

Wednesday December 13th 2017

Zone Fire Modeling and CFD Analysis

John Klote

CIBSE ASHRAE Group - Zone Fire Modeling and CFD Analysis - December 2017

Download supplementary questions with answers from John Klote

 

Thursday November 2nd 2017

Development of Integrated Chiller System with an Oil Free Compressor

Tom Watson

Download a copy of Tom's Paper

 

Wednesday March 8th 2017

Date Centres Update

PDF download of David McAuley's presentation - 'Ireland's Digital Success'

PDF download of Robin Steinbrecher's presentation - 'The work and output of ASHRAE Technical Committee TC9.9 - Mission Critical Facilities, Data Centers, Technology Spaces and Electronic Equipment'

CIBSE ASHRAE Group - Data Centres - March 2017

 

Wednesday Feb 15th 2017

Refrigerant choices

PDF download of Andy Pearson's presentation

Responses to questions from 15th Feb 2017 webinar

Refrigerant choices - Andy Pearson

Responses to questions from 15th Feb 2017 webinar

 

Wednesday Dec 14th 2016

Weather data for use in building energy calculations

PDF download of Joe Huang's presentation

Weather data for use in building energy calculations - Joe Huang

 

Wednesday Nov 9th 2016

The 'smart' answer to indoor air quality

PDF download of Max Sherman's presentation

Further information is available from https://eetd.lbl.gov/node/50631, https://eetd.lbl.gov/node/50631 and https://eetd.lbl.gov/publications/advanced-controls-for-residential-who

The ‘smart’ answer to indoor air quality

Thursday 12th October 2016

CIBSE ASHRAE 40th Anniversary Seminar

An excellent afternoon's set of presentations - pdfs downloadable below

Tim Dwyer - intro
Tadj Oreszczyn - welcome
Marcella Ucci - Health, wellbeing and indoor environmental quality
Sung-Min Hong - Delivering practically useful intelligence with building energy benchmarks
Tim Wentz - Energy labelling as an educational vehicle
Frank Mills - Cold climate design
Emilia Targonska - Delivering building services excellence

Thursday 3rd March 2016 (Joint meeting with IoR)

Supermarket energy use and emissions - technology options review

Download papers presented by Yunting Ge and Judith Evans

Wednesday Feb 10th 2016

Mitigating air-borne infection in ventilation systems with ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI)

PDF download of Hillary Spicer's presentation (revised with all references)

Video of Hillary Spicer's presentation (missing first few minutes of commentary)

January 13th 2016

Oversized air-conditioning systems and overcooled buildings in hot and humid climates

PDF download of Chandra Sekhar's presentation

Video of Chandra Sekhar's presentation

December 9th 2015

Whose green building standards are more effective - US or Europe?

PDF download of Tom Lawrence's presentation

Tom Lawrence's presentation

November 11th 2015
CIBSE ASHRAE Group with B&ES
Indoor air quality - how can buildings become safe havens from pollution?

PDF of Bjarne Olesen's presentation available for download

Video of both Bjarne Olesen's and Georgiana Hendriks' presentations and Q&A

May 20th 2015
CIBSE ASHRAE Group with CIBSE FM Group and BCIA
Taking Control - How Controls, Commissioning and Collaboration are coming together to narrow the building performance gap

PDFs of Steve Harrison's presentation and Mike Malina's presentation available for download

How Controls, Commissioning and Collaboration are coming together to narrow the building performance gap - May 20th 2015

March 5th 2015
Understanding and reducing environmental impact of urban buildings

David Cowan and Andy Ford's paper is available for download

To see the presentation video a free login will be needed - click the image below ....

February 11th 2015
Data Centre Energy Efficiency: Who, What, Why, When, Where and How

A (2.6Mb) pdf file of Don Beaty and Paul Finch's slides is available for download

Data Centre Energy Efficiency: Who, What, Why, When, Where and How - Don Beaty and Paul Finch - February 2015.

January 15th 2015
Principles of humidity, its measurement and practical advice for building commissioning

A (1.5Mb) pdf file of slides is available for download

Principles of humidity, its measurement and practical advice for building commissioning - Jeremy Wingate - January 2015

December 17th 2014
Designing MEP Systems and Code Compliance in the Middle East - Covering the GCC Region... Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

A (2.6Mb) pdf file of slides is available for download

Designing MEP Systems and Code Compliance in the Middle East - ChewPieng Ryan and Cathy Elliott-Scott - December 2014

March 12th 2014
Simple GSHP Systems: Lower Cost, Higher Performance

A (7Mb) pdf file of Steve Kavanaugh's slides is available for download

Simple Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) Systems: Lower Cost, Higher Performance - Steve Kavanaugh - March 2014

February 19th 2014
Differences Across the Atlantic: International Perspectives on Building Energy Labelling - Event supported by TROX UK and IERC, Ireland

A (0.9Mb) pdf file of Jose Ortiz's slides (a braodly 'UK' perspective) is available for download

A (1.1Mb) pdf file of Adam Hinges's slides (a broadly 'US' perspective) is available for download

December 11th 2013
Is the adoption of an old hydronic solution contributing to the current performance gap? - Simon Mitchell

A (0.7Mb) pdf file of Simon's slides is available for download and a video of his main presentation is below (note that the finalised set of slides is as per the pdf - there is a minor correction to the slides 11 and 15)

Is the adoption of an old hydronic solution contributing to the current performance gap? -Simon Mitchell - CIBSE ASHRAE Dec 2013

November 13th 2013
The Coming Age of a Smart Grid and Smart Buildings - Tom Lawrence

A (2Mb) pdf file of Tom's slides is available for download and a video of his whole presentation is below

The Coming Age of a Smart Grid and Smart Buildings from Tim Dwyer on Vimeo.

May 16th 2013
The Human Element in Data Centres - Sophia Flucker and Robert Tozer

A pdf file of Robert and Sophia's slides is available for download

March 13th 2013
Sustainability and Smoke Control - John Klote

A pdf file of John's slides is available for download

February 13th 2013
Humidity control - solving building performance issues worldwide - Lew Harriman

Sorry there is no recording available - but you can download the pdf file of Lew's slides complete with all the slide builds (its a big file at 24Mb)

January 10th 2013
Debate: Heat Pumps or Passive Cooling - the most effective low carbon solution? - Becci Taylor and David Butler

As co-organisers the Institute of Refrigeration recorded the event and this is available online (you will need to register for free to watch the video)

December 12th 2012
Towards Net Zero Energy Buildings

Full video with Frank Mills' commentary and Q&A

November 14th 2012
Unclean, unclean! Health threats from ventilation and air conditioning

PDF file of Ghasson Shabha's slides

Full video with Ghasson Shabha's commentary and Q&A

March 14th 2012
Practical Application of BIM in building design - now & future, reality & expectation PLUS BIM in action

PDF files are available of Dave Branson's slides and Neville Glanville's slides (Large'ish file of 4MB)

Full video with Dave Branson and Neville Glanville's commentary and Q&A

February 15th 2012
How the US keeps 50 year old air conditioning systems operating and energy efficient
Supported by CEREB
To download a PDF file of David Arnold's slides click here

December 14th 2011
Smart Grid: A Building - Utility Partnership
Supported by HVCA and CEREB
To download a PDF file of Steve Bushby's slides click here

Full video with Steve's commentary and Q&A

November 16th 2011
New standards to beat Legionella in HVAC
Supported by HVCA, Lochinvar and UCL

To download a PDF file of Bill McCoy's slides click here

Full video with Bill's commentary and Q&A

May 18th 2011
Playing with fire - best practice for fire and smoke damper installation
HVCA presentation supported by the CIBSE ASHRAE Group

See and hear Jim Murray's presentation

May 11th 2011
True Life Cycle Costing

CIBSE ASHRAE Group - Life Cycle Costing.

Download pdf of Scott West's presentation and 1Mb pdf of Tony Willis' presentation

March 3rd 2011
Carbon dioxide refrigeration with heat recovery for retail applications

Download Ina Colombo's paper

January 12th 2011

BIM bam! - without the flim flam (Building Information Modelling)

See and hear Dennis Knights presentation below

BIM bam!- without the flim flam (Building Information Modelling)

November 24th 2010
Fire Engineering: Sprinklers and Smoke/Heat Vents - do we need both?
To download a PDF file of David Smith's slides click here or see the video below!

....or click here to see the video on an external site

May 12th 2010
Green buildings or green wash?
To download a PDF file of each of the four presentations .....
Benny Skelton's CHICAGO, USA Presentation (Large PDF file 2.5Mb) click here
Bill Jolly's DUBAI, UAE Presentation click here
Ashish Rakheja's NEW DELHI, INDIA Presentation click here
Wojtek Stec's LONDON, UK Presentation click here

February 10th 2010
How Engineers Can Reduce Building Carbon Emissions in Reality, Not Virtual Reality
To download a PDF file of the Nigel Banks's Presentation (Large PDF file 4.5Mb) click here

January 13th 2010
The Big Carbon Debate
To download a PDF file of the William Orchard's slides click here
and for Williams's supplementary handouts click here
To download a PDF file of the James Thonger's slides click here

December 4th 2009
Low Carbon Supermarkets
To download a PDF file of the Andy Campbell's slides (Its a BIG file at over 5 MB) click here

November 11th 2009
Wind Turbines - Large Small and Unusual
To download a PDF file of the Geoff Leventhall's slides (2.2 MB) click here

 

May 13th 2009
Urban Wind Turbines - saviours or statues
To download a PDF file of the Steve Dance's slides click here and for Tony Day's click here

 

February 11th 2009
CHP comes of Age
To download a PDF file of the David Shaw's slides click here

January 15th 2009
The Cooling of Terminal 5
To download a PDF file of the Derek Moore's paper click here

December 10th 2008
Solar Water Heating
To download a PDF file of the David Pepper and Steve Addis' slides click here or see the video below!

November 12th 2008
Dubai and the Middle East - a sustainable cocktail of building designs and standards?
To download a PDF file of the Kevin Mitchell's slides (as presented by Andy Keelin) click here

September 18th 2008
Energy Certificates for all - 12 days to lift off!
To download a PDF file of the Hywel Davies' slides click here

May 14th 2008
Hospital Design - An ocean apart?? - US and UK Practices Compared
To download a PDF file of the Frank Mill's slides click here

March 12th 2008
The Atlantic Bridge - A report on closer working between the US and UK
To download a PDF file of the Michael Norton's slides click here

February 13th 2008
Performance Modelling
To download a PDF file of the Matt Hermann's slides
Note that this is a big file (8Mb)click here

December 12th 2007
Air-conditioning Inspection to meet the EPBD
To download a **Version 2 ** PDF file of the Hywel Davies' slides including web links to find those hidden documents
click here

November 14th 2007
CIBSE Guide L meets ASHRAE Green Guide - Parts 1 & 2
To download a PDF file of the Tim Dwyer's slides (with thanks to Tom Lawrence) click here
To download a PDF file of the Hywel Davies' slides (with thanks to David Cheshire) click here

Jeff Gatlin's presentation from June 13th 2007
Lack of Mutual Recognition of Engineers:
A Hindrance in the Global Economy
To download a PDF file of the presentation click here