Archive for July 27th, 2006
100 Days of Carbon Clean Up
Photo from Flickr
CIBSE have been promoting the 100 Days of Carbon Clean-up, due to finish mid-September. I’ve just spotted that the BBC are following Fulcrum’s efforts on the news website - and they appear to be struggling with natural ventilation vs. a workable temperature in the heatwave too:
We’re too hot! Productivity in the office [...]
Comfort is a green issue
image from FlickrAs I have discussed before acceptable ambient temperatures in offices have a key role in carbon consumption. Whilst letting temperatures drift beyond say, 28ºC for more than 5% of occupied time in summer can be detrimental to performance, limiting temperatures to 20ºC in summer and 24ºC in winter is overkill, as CIBSE [...]
