Archive for October, 2006
Best biz school in the north
I’m attending the best business school north of Warwick. Bizarre way to present the results, but it sounds better than 8th best in the country, I suppose.
Corporate Wisdom - Sir John Parker
I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend Leeds University Business School’s third Corporate Wisdom event last night. The speaker was Sir John Parker, chairman of National Grid. A fellow countryman, he started his career at Harland and Wolff in Belfast and has sat on many boards over the past 25 years or so.
Sir [...]
Cost Benefit Analysis for Windsave system
Mark Brinkley has bought a domestic wind turbine. If you don’t know who Mark is, he is author of cult self-build manual ‘The Housebuilder’s Bible’. I couldn’t resist running the numbers Windsave quote on their website to see how long Mark will have to wait to see a return on his investment of £1498.
I’ve kept [...]
UK Building Regulations Part L2A & L2B - iSBEM has been updated
From the website 4 October:
An updated release of the Part L calculation software SBEM has today been made available for designers wishing to demonstrate compliance for buildings other than dwellings.
The development team at BRE has been responding to feedback from the market on the previous release in May and has incorporated a number of improvements [...]
Part L1A & L1B - changes to application
Announced today on the BRE website:
Large dwellings over 450 m2
The limitation of SAP to dwellings of floor area not exceeding 450 m2 has been removed and SAP, rather than SBEM, should be used for Part L compliance for such dwellings.
Is this the beginning of the end for SBEM? Or might this be due to the [...]
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
Turns out the message isn’t half as important as how the message is conveyed. Sounds rational, doesn’t it? I started writing this post with a view to reviewing carbon rationing but it quickly evolved into a lesson on communicating and persuasion. I’ll begin with a video of Mayer Hillman on YouTube from BBC Breakfast [...]
Websites round two: CIBSE vs. ASHRAE
I felt a little guilty for picking on CIBSE in my last post, so I thought I’d check out the competition across the pond: ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers - almost as snappy a title as Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers).
I’ll give them top marks for having some podcasts available [...]
