CIBSE News

Article category: News
Published on: 18 Sept 26

CIBSE Building Safety 2026 conference focuses on delivering safer buildings in practice

CIBSE brought together industry experts at its Building Safety 2026 conference in London to explore the next phase of building safety reform and what it means in practice. The conference examined competence, accountability, building performance, lifecycle risk and the safety challenges associated with the transition to net zero, with keynote speaker Dame Judith Hackitt

Article category: News
Published on: 16 Sept 26

CIBSE joins All-Party Parliamentary Group for Healthy Homes and Buildings as sponsor

CIBSE has become a sponsor of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Healthy Homes and Buildings, strengthening its engagement with Parliamentarians with the Institution contributing technical expertise to help shape policy for healthier, safer and more productive buildings

Article category: News
Published on: 09 Sept 26

CIBSE welcomes IChemE to its headquarters in central London, bringing engineering communities closer together

CIBSE and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) are strengthening collaboration across the engineering profession as IChemE relocates its London base to CIBSE’s headquarters at Saffron Hill. Together, both organisations will create new opportunities for knowledge exchange, innovation and supporting the next generation of engineers

Article category: News
Published on: 03 Sept 26

CIBSE Scotland invites industry views on Passivhaus Equivalent Standard consultation

Join CIBSE Scotland for an interactive discussion on the Scottish Government’s Stage 2 consultation on the Passivhaus Equivalent Standard and its implications for building standards and energy performance in Scotland

Article category: News
Published on: 27 Aug 26

CIBSE Technical Director Dr Anastasia Mylona discusses the future of UK buildings in a hotter climate on BBC Radio 4

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, Dr Mylona highlighted the need for a fundamental shift in how the UK designs and operates buildings to cope with increasingly frequent periods of hot weather

Article category: News
Published on: 24 Aug 26

Lessons Learnt the Hard Way: Highlights and recordings

CIBSE ANZ's flagship 2026 seminar, Lessons Learnt the Hard Way, brought engineers together across six Australia/New Zealand venues for a day of candid project insights, with communication and teamwork emerging as the throughline across nearly every session. A highlight was the Soft Landings Workshop on overcoming barriers to better building outcomes and overwhelmingly positive attendee feedback. Thanks to Gold Sponsors Seber Recruitment and Optergy for supporting the day and Aurecon for their AV and venue facilities.

Article category: News
Published on: 10 Aug 26

We check tomorrow's weather. Why are we still designing buildings for yesterday's climate?

CIBSE Environmental Data Scientist Jasmine Ng explores why designing buildings around historical weather data is no longer enough as the UK’s climate changes. CIBSE’s future weather files enable engineers to take a risk-based approach, stress-test buildings against plausible future climates and create more resilient, safe and comfortable spaces

Article category: News
Published on: 07 Aug 26

CIBSE Economic Life Expectancy Tables 2026 now live with improved alignment with other industry data standards

The 2026 CIBSE Economic Life Expectancy Tables will strengthen data consistency across the industry to improve asset investment planning, maintenance and sustainability outcomes, and introduce expanded asset coverage – that has been embedded into a variation factoring tool, to support more accurate life-cycle forecasting

Article category: News
Published on: 06 Aug 26

SLL are supporting LiGHT 26

The SLL are delighted to be supporting LiGHT 26 at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London, on the 18th and 19th of November 2026.

Article category: News
Published on: 04 Aug 26

Khorshid Meihami is the recipient of the Jean Heap Bursary 2026

Khorshid Meihami is the recipient of the Jean Heap Bursary 2026.

Article category: News
Published on: 29 Jul 26

CIBSE ANZ announces judging panel for 2026 Young Engineers Awards

CIBSE ANZ is pleased to introduce the ten industry leaders who will judge the 2026 CIBSE ANZ Young Engineers Awards, chaired by Enda Seyama-Heneghan, CIBSE ANZ Young Engineers Network Chair.

Article category: News
Published on: 28 Jul 26

Aligned and ready: Verification to the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard is now open

From today, buildings and their evidence can be submitted for verification by Bureau Veritas, allowing robust Net Zero Carbon Aligned claims