Archive for April 17th, 2006
The changing role of the building services engineer
Last September an ‘open mike’ piece in Building magazine written by Bill Ireland of White Young Green addressed the identity crisis facing building services engineers. The piece (subscription required) mirrored my own views:
‘Over the past three decades the M&E engineer has moved on from just designing the ‘pipes and wires’ that service a building, [...]
2ºC rise - who’s in control of the thermostat?
Driving to the gym on Friday morning, I was somewhat bemused by a story reported on BBC radio news that Tony Blair had promised not to let the global increase in temperature rise above 2ºC. To me, it sounded as if he had control of the thermostat, which seemed a little extraordinary, if not a [...]
Impending Global Energy Consumption Explosion
Came across some scary figures via this article (opens a pdf file) written by 2 Stanford MBA students.
By their reckoning, the US accounts for 4% of the world’s population and uses 25% of world energy consumption. A sobering thought on it’s own. But their point is that in general global ‘economies’ appear to be holding [...]
