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Alex Smith

@AlexSmith68

Tweeting mostly about the built environment – editor of CIBSE Journal

 Cambridge
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Joined March 2008
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Heat network policy session first up at @FutureBuildNow John Allison (left) DESNZ: ‘Heat Network Zoning provides confidence that heat networks are the right solution for selected urban areas. It doesn’t mean heat networks won’t be most effective solution outside heat zones’
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CIBSE@CIBSE17 Nov 2023
Podcast: tackling whole-life carbon in air conditioning: This @CIBSEJournal podcast sponsored by Daikin, discusses the challenges of decarbonising cooling across a building’s lifetime with 4 experts discussing how to reduce operational and embodied carbon buff.ly/49pWKWI
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Creating tiny pockets of air inside wood makes it three times as good at insulating heat and 10 times better at blocking sound newscientist.com/article/235…
High-tech wood filled with air cavities could insulate your home | New Scientist

High-tech wood filled with air cavities could insulate your home | New Scientist

Removing polymers from wood, leaving tiny cavities, can drastically improve the material's insulating properties without removing too much of its strength, which might make it useful in buildings

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Perfecting #Passivhaus - in @CIBSEJournal's recent article, our Passivhaus Leader @GwilymStill chronicles the development of the challenging #energy & comfort standard at our Practice, and explains why it's integral to our #netzero #carbon strategy: cibsejournal.com/uncategoriz…
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#COVID19 and #ventilation of #buildings during #winter2020: #RAMP #Task7 #document A massive efforts by team & a must read: Check out here arxiv.org/pdf/2009.12781.pdf @HenryBurridge @CathNoakes @pfl4539 @royalsociety @EPSRC @PhysicsofLifeUK @AirPollSurrey @GuildfordLL @CllrReeves
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Parts of Siberia are hotter than Washington, with temperatures nearly 40 degrees above average washingtonpost.com/weather/2… Snow cover is disappearing, sea ice is melting and fires, including possible ‘zombie’ blazes, are raging. @afreedma @MatthewCappucci
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...@FIcskk13 Apr 2020
Replying to @IntechsTV @xddchill
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Today's big deadline!! Finalising @CIBSE response to #PartL & #FutureHomes consultation. Great to work on this w/ @LETI_London @RTPIPlanners @The_CIEH @EdgeDebate @UKGBC .Huge thanks to all who sent ideas & #data. Have your say too!! cibsejournal.com/opinion/why… #NetZero #housing
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Our Joel Gustafsson will be speaking about "What we mean by Net Zero and Zero Carbon” at the #Cambridge Climate Emergency Conference on 24th March, hosted by @CarbonNtrlCambs and @CFCICambridge. Lots of other great speakers too! Book your ticket here: cfci.org.uk/cfci-event/243/
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Great to see so much of the cnstruction industry assembling outside The Building centre for the #ClimateStrikes
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Simon Wyatt@swyatt8229 Mar 2019
A key objective of the GLA’s London Plan was to deliver carbon reductions. In this month’s @CIBSEJournal I have taken a look back on its impact to date & with the new draft plan coming into force later this year what’s coming next. cibsejournal.com/opinion/met…
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Request: Where does HVAC go wrong? Working with @CIBSE on a project to inform designers about common pitfalls. Could this help us design problems out or provide simple tests to check for them happening? Tweet us what you observe with #HVACerrors @Sara_Kassam @ElinaGrigoriou
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Is there a place for swear words in the English language? F**k yes. Our language columnist Lane Greene explains why. *This film contains strong language. Obviously*
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YouGen@YouGenUK25 Jul 2018
As of 2:30pm today, Solar PV alone is producing ONE FIFTH of GB Electricity grid.iamkate.com/ #RenewableEnergy #Solar #PV #HeatWave #WednesdayWisdom @GawcottSolar
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We’ve published new rules to reform planning and deliver higher quality homes across England. We’ve summarised some of the key points of the revised #NPPF in the below animation. The full framework is available at gov.uk/government/publicatio…

National Planning Policy Framework

A short animation summarising some of the key points of the national planning policy framework, published today.

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The current #UKheatwave and water shortages highlight the need for Government to redouble its efforts to address the risk from climate change, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says today. Full statement here: bit.ly/2LjYo4x
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Well, I never thought I’d see a time when wind and coal were providing 8x more electricity than gas!!!! In one tweet that tells you how hard grid is working to manage our limited gas supply nitter.gq/myGridGB/status/969423…
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GB electricity, 4AM wind 31.0% coal 29.0% nuclear 19.5% gas 7.3% hydro 0.9% import 7.7% solar 0.0% biomass 4.4% storage 0.0% other 0.2%. Total Demand is 33GW
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#InsulationWorks #HeatPumpsWork Despite -6C outside and 1/6th the installed heat capacity of the original gas boiler when we moved in. Our insulated Victorian home is toasty warm. #Passivhaus #Enerphit
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Sir John Armitt is to lead the National Infrastructure Commission, while a replacement is found for Lord Adonis as chairman nic.org.uk/news/interim-arra…
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I have written up my notes from the two sessions I participated in at #Build2Perform Live last week. One was on the challenging aspects of TM59 (domestic overheating risk prediction) and the other on applications for city data. inklingllp.com/2017/11/30/bu…
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