Keeping up with the Volunteers

Article category: News
Published on: 03 Feb 25

Sharing my passion for façade engineering and volunteering

Senior engineer in WSP, Lida specialises in façade design, sustainability, parametric studies, and cast glass design. She started volunteering in 2024.

Article category: News
Published on: 17 Dec 24

Heritage meets Innovation: Inspiring Young Minds in the Built Environment

Discover how Lizzy Pettitt, CIBSE YEN London Chair, is inspiring A Level students exploring careers in the built environment. Read her story to see how volunteering can fuel your passion and career growth.

Article category: News
Published on: 10 Dec 24

Shaping Standards, Supporting Futures: Building a Stronger Industry Together

My career would not have been as successful without my journey with CIBSE...

Article category: News
Published on: 12 Nov 24

Mentoring with limited time…

I have often looked back on my early high school education and wondered “what if?”…

Article category: News
Published on: 10 Oct 24

In conversation with the CIBSE Minority Ethnic Groups Panel

This month, we caught up with some of our volunteers on the CIBSE Minority Ethnic Groups Panel (CMEGP), which is a sub-panel of CIBSE’s EDI Committee.

Article category: News
Published on: 28 Aug 24

Building connections – my journey with the CIBSE Yorkshire Region

I had a brief time working as an engineer in other industries before the call of the built environment brought me back to me senses...

Article category: News
Published on: 16 Jul 24

Volunteering to find a network, learning new skills and inspiring others

Having taken a year out from university after graduating, I was facing the exciting yet unnerving prospect of beginning a new career in a new city...

Article category: News
Published on: 17 Jun 24

Celebrating our Volunteers

During Volunteers week at the beginning of June, we were able to feature a number of our dedicated volunteers with the purpose to highlight their contributions and to celebrate our 1000+ volunteer team.

Article category: News
Published on: 16 May 24

Volunteering to find a professional support network

This month we caught up with the outgoing SLL President Helen Loomes to find out more about her time as President and the International Day of Light.

Article category: News
Published on: 16 Apr 24

From Member to Chair - How volunteering helped me develop new skills

I was asked if I would be interested in writing this article as I come to the end of my time with the SoPHE YEN and at first I was hesitant but it gave me a great opportunity to pause and look back at all the different opportunities volunteering has offered me.

Article category: News
Published on: 20 Mar 24

Volunteering on a CIBSE committee, giving back to the industry and finding a network for life

Dr Maria Spyrou, Associate Director at Turner and Townsend, has been an active volunteer of the Energy Performance Group since 2012...

Article category: News
Published on: 13 Feb 24

Empowering women in engineering: WiBSE's 2023 highlights and 2024 focus

Women in Building Services Engineering, also known as WiBSE, was set up in 2012 with a number of key strategic aims including to advise and engage with the CIBSE Equality, Inclusion and Diversity (EDI) Panel on all matters relating to the support and needs of women in the industry.