Our past presentations can be found in the list below. These sessions are arranged by the Intelligent Buildings Group Committee and feature special guests to present on a variety of topics.
To suggest an idea for a future presentation, either speak to the Committee members at the next meeting or email [email protected].
2024 Presentations
2024 Presentations
CIBSE IBG Smart Building, past, present and future
Date and time: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 13:00 - 14:00 BST
About this event
The presentation will delve into the present and future outlook of the smart building market. It will draw insights from data collected through SmartScore scorecards from over 150 operational SmartScore buildings. Additionally, it will explore the technological evolution that has shaped these buildings. SmartScore, offered by WiredScore, is the premier certification for smart buildings globally.
Will Brouwer
Will Brouwer leads the product development of SmartScore at WiredScore. Before joining WiredScore in 2021, where he was involved from the start of SmartScore, Will was a digital strategy consultant at Accenture and WSP. During this time, he lived and worked across the Middle East, Asia, and America, supporting real estate companies worldwide to deploy smart city and smart building technologies.
Join us for the CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group AGM, where we'll gather in person to discuss all things smart buildings and make important
Date and time: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:00 - 19:00 BST
About this event
The AGM will be followed by a presentation: POE Lighting and Zero Carbon Intelligent Buildings.
The speaker will be Daniel Floyd. The presentation will followed by Panel discussion with Kristina Goncharov, Derek Clements. Chaired by Yan Xing.
CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group Annual General Meeting
Come join us for the CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group Annual General Meeting! This will be a hybrid event.
In accordance with the Institution’s rules, all of the committee shall retire at each AGM. Retiring Officers and committee members are available for re-election.
The membership is invited to submit additional nominations in writing (including electronic communication) to the Honorary Secretary. The nominations shall be accompanied by the written consent of the nominees, to accept office if elected.
Should there be more nominations than positions available, a ballot will be held.
The commercial sector has long relied on AC electrical distribution, witnessing advancements in efficiency and distribution strategies. Yet, the push for net zero carbon emissions demands come from conventional methods, urging innovation for more efficient approaches. This shift is crucial for the construction industry, offering precise control, real-time monitoring, and data-driven optimisation while reducing carbon footprint. Embracing these innovations is not just about following trends but adapting to a future of sustainability and efficiency.
Bio
Daniel joined Cundall in 2015 from Hoare Lea as a Graduate Electrical Engineer. I hold a BEng Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Derby. Since joining Cundall he has studied and passed my MSc in Building Services Engineering from the London Southbank University and has been granted CEng with the IET. During his engineering career, he developed an interest in sustainable electrical engineering and digital engineering. His current role allows me to create a sustainable future within building services and to develop my skills within the future of the digital engineering market.
Join us online to explore how technology innovations and human behavior can work together towards achieving a net zero carbon footprint.
Date and time: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:00 - 17:00 GMT
Advancing from Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 emphasises a value-driven approach by integrating human factors with technology to enhance systems and processes for societal benefit and global interaction, leveraging digital transformation through IoT, AT, big data and smart optimisation for decarbonisation and sustainable city development. It advocates for circular economy principles in construction to address global challenges across project lifespans, aiming for a net zero and nature-positive future, emphasising early action on embodied carbon for greater lifecycle savings. Dynamic energy simulation tools foster an integrated design approach, combining energy sources with UK and UAE case studies highlighting sustainable design. Moreover, understanding occupant behaviour's complex influences is crucial for accurate energy consumption predictions, supporting UN sustainable development goals through eco-business opportunities, socio-ecological sustainability, and equitable net-zero transitions.
Dr Tong Yang
Dr Yang started her career as a Structural Engineer in China, then pursued MSc study in Renewable Energy and Architecture, PhD research in CFD & field testing on Natural Ventilation in Buildings at the University of Nottingham. Further developed CFD and human thermoregulation model coupling simulation for human-environment interactions at De Montfort and Loughborough Universities. At Middlesex University, Tong's current research focuses on BIM-enabled digital transformation for realising intelligent & responsive buildings.
Dr Waleed Yagoub
Dr Yagoub has a wealth of Sustainability experience in the building construction industry, with a background in research and development of renewables and low-carbon technologies, and their applications in the built environment. After finishing his MSc degree and PhD research at the University of Nottingham, he continued working in the research field for a short period at Imperial College London. Throughout his employment in the consultancy industry, he has been collaborating with academia in the UK and UAE.
Innovative Approaches for Deep Decarbonization of Data Centers and Building Space Heating Networks
Date and time: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:00 - 15:00 GMT
About this event
CIBSE Intelligent Buildings invites you to join us for a webinar by Professor Xiaoshu Lu.
As the demand for data continues to surge, data centre usage intensifies, contributing to elevated global CO2 emissions. Addressing this challenge is crucial for mitigating climate change.
This presentation introduces a groundbreaking method for profound decarbonisation of data centres by leveraging liquid cooling technology to raise waste heat temperature for building space heating and introduces the concept of 'data furnaces,' where data centres directly supply waste heat to heat buildings on-site, offering a unique solution to reduce district heating consumption and lower CO2 emissions. Unlike traditional methods using heat pumps, our approach designs an efficient heat recovery system for liquid cooling, eliminating the need for a heat pump.Through a real data centre case study and a thorough assessment through a 25-year life cycle analysis (LCC), our approach showcases significant reductions in district heating consumption and CO2 emissions. The proposed heat exchanger designs represent pioneering solutions, particularly beneficial in challenging climates, offering substantial advantages for both liquid-cooled and air-cooled facilities. These findings mark significant strides towards achieving carbon neutrality in data centre operations.
This webinar will be chaired by Dr Yangang Xing, Chair of CIBSE Intelligent Building Group.
Professor Xiaoshu Lü leads the Renewable Energy and Built Environment team at the University of Vaasa and is an Adjunct Professor in AI Applications to Buildings at Aalto University in Finland.
She earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Jilin University in China and Ph.D. from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland, followed by postdoctoral research at KTH in Sweden. Her expertise lies in low-energy and low-carbon strategies and technologies for the built environment at building and district scales. Awarded the Napier Shaw Bronze Medal by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), her current research focuses on hybrid renewable and storage energy systems, utilizing demand-response control and optimization strategies to address the intermittency challenges of renewables for decarbonizing buildings.
Her extensive publications span various topics, including demand-controlled ventilation, heat exchangers, indoor environmental quality, efficiency technologies for renewable and unconventional energy resources, waste heat utilization in data centres, and the application of AI and digitalization (e.g., computer vision, machine learning, and BIM) to optimize building performance while reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.
CIBSE IBG & CIB present Data Centres - the challenges in the current arena
Date and time: Wed, 8 May 2024 13:00 - 14:00 BST
About this event
Everybody, everyday uses data centres whether they realise it or not. All of our lives are entwined with these facilities from banking, shopping, entertainment, work, research. The media often portrays these facilities in a poor light, energy vampires, no more power for new homes, unsightly, low employers etc. During the course of this presentation, I will examine some of the challenges data centres currently have in respects of 'cloud' 'AI' and other technologies. I will also look at some of the engineering solutions that are being used to combat the problems of excess heat, high power draw and renewable energy, along with the talent crisis.
About the Presenter
James Rix is a subject matter expert in data centre design and delivery, having delivered projects in over 14 countries and 3 continents, often with diverse and remote teams. During his data centre career, he has carried out due diligence reports and feasibility studies, white space fit outs, refurbishments, migrations and new build projects. The client base for these projects have been enterprise organisations, co-location providers and hyperscale owner/operators. He has been closely involved with the campus planning of large hyperscale facilities along with the test fits for template design on sites. As a specialist in early works, he delivers ‘shovel ready’ campus’ as well as bringing projects through to final completion. Within the data centre community, he has lead specialist interest groups for companies and speaks regularly at international conferences on a variety of data centre subjects. He is the winner of two industry awards for his contribution to early years careers development. He is also the author of the ‘Bytes, Watts and Carbon’ newsletter on LinkedIn.
CIBSE IBG, CIB and UCL present Off-Grid 100% Renewable Energy Buildings
Date and time: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:00 - 17:00 GMT
About this event
Dr Pietro Elia Campana has been a visiting researcher at the Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Zhejiang University, and the Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research of China, and research assistant at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He has written over 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, conferences, books, monographs, and book chapters, including one paper on Nature Energy. His research fields include agrivoltaic systems modelling, distributed renewable energy systems modelling, energy in buildings, solar radiation assessment, water-food-energy nexus, environmental monitoring, and artificial intelligence for energy issues. He is the head of the agrivoltaic group at Malardalen University, counting two senior researchers, one postdoc, and three Ph.D. students.
His talk, titled "Off-grid 100% renewable energy buildings", will focus on modelling high renewable penetration buildings with special consideration to modelling off-grid multifamily buildings that can self-produce electricity, heat, and water under the challenges of the Nordic climate.
Dr Pietro Elia Campana
Associate professor and senior lecturer at Malardalen University, Division of Sustainable Energy Systems, Sweden. Ph.D. in energy and environmental engineering. Associate editor of the prestigious Elsevier Journal of Applied Energy.
Join CIBSE Intelligent Buildings for a webinar on Liveable Buildings for the 21st Century.
Date and time Mon, 4 Mar 2024 16:00 - 17:00 GMT
This presentation will focus on the need for buildings to not only be sustainable but designed for achieving environments that are conducive for health and well-being. Can Intelligent Buildings provide alternative approaches to heating, ventilation and air-conditioning of buildings? Today, sensitive control of these needs may use either traditional or new solutions, or a blend of these, but we have to understand that the built environment is fundamental to mankind's sense of well-being and that it is the totality of this idea that we need to understand and value even in this low carbon economy age. Intelligent buildings respect these values for the individual, the business organisation and the society, and we can learn about intelligent buildings by looking at the history of world architecture and seeing how people have adapted buildings to deal with the rigors of climate and the changing face of civilisation.
Prof. Derek Clements-Croome has worked in the building design and contracting industry before entering university life. He has also worked in architecture and building engineering at the University of Bath (1978-1988) with Sir Ted Happold. He founded the CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group in 2006 and co-founded the CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group in 1992 and was commended by the CIB for linking the CIBSE IBG with his work as Coordinator for the W098 Commission on Intelligent and Responsive Buildings.
CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group and UCL invite you to a webinar on Enhancing Energy Performance in Urban Commercial Buildings.
Date and time: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:00 - 17:00 GMT
Kartik's talk will focus on energy reduction in existing large commercial Grade A city or urban centre-based office buildings in the UK and EU. He will cover NABERS UK and Display Energy Certificate (DEC) metric as a marker of energy performance.
Speaker: Dr Kartik Amrania
Dr Kartik Amrania is the Head of Building Sustainability at Sweco UK. Specialising in the sustainable design of the built environment, Kartik has close to two decades of experience in building sustainability. His key focus is setting out low-energy and zero-carbon solutions using pragmatic, cost-effective methodologies for commercial and residential buildings. As a chartered mechanical building services engineer, it gives him a unique insight into incorporating practical low-carbon solutions into building design.
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