Sustainability & Energy – Friday 28th September Rising energy costs, combined with the effort to reduce carbon footprints, have made energy efficiency a top priority. Analysis of high-performing...
Glare and visual comfort – Thursday 27th September People naturally prefer daylight to other sources of illumination. Daylight has a positive effect on the biological rhythms of our...
In July 2018, the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee released their latest publication exploring how heatwaves affect people and infrastructure in the UK. The report looks in detail...
Heat Rejection – Wednesday 26th September In the quest for energy efficiency, most modern buildings are highly insulated and ‘airtight’. However, these qualities significantly increase the risk of over-heating...
Health & wellbeing are hot topics across the board these days. Offices, homes, schools and other public buildings are taking into account how the occupants’ interact with the building...
World Green Building Week 2018 starts today and at the BBSA we support the World Green Building Council and any initiative that encourages new buildings to embrace passive heating...
Have you ever walked in to your child’s bedroom and thought it was too hot, or too cold? Probably. If you live in a ‘smart building’ where everything is...
‘…old buildings, after all, may have existed for centuries and been through much extreme weather. Just as people changed clothes to adapt to changing seasons, they also used additional...
Do heatwaves affect students’ performance? A new study has been published which assesses the performance of two groups of students during a heatwave; one group who had air-conditioning and...
In the space of three days last week (August 2018) The Guardian published three articles addressing the growing issue of buildings overheating to dangerous levels. The headlines alone provide...
Kathryn Brown, a Senior Analyst at the Committee on Climate Changes’ Adaptation Sub-Committee produced a report identifying three of the key reasons why overheating should be deemed an environmental...
Winifred Robinson investigated how blinds can keep homes cool on BBC Radio 4’s programme You and Yours, 13th August 2018. With a guest speaking appearance from Zoe De Grussa...
London South Bank University has conducted research that has proven blinds can significantly reduce overheating in UK homes by helping to lower internal temperatures. This study involved environmental monitoring...
The article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44466214 Our response On reading the recent article by Chris Baraniuk, ‘How trying to stay cool could make the world even hotter’ as the Operations Director...
World Environment Day – 5th June World Environment Day is held on 5th June every year. This year it is being hosted by India and the theme for it...
