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CIBSE News from August

Young Engineers in the Spotlight

Arup, Imtech Aqua Ltd and IMA Cooling Sytems have been announced as winners of the Young Engineers Champions Awards 2010. Now in their second year, the awards - sponsored by Baxi Commercial Division - recognise innovation in developing engineers of the future, and seek to reward those organisations that proactively champion industry's young people.  Click here to read the full article.

Help Test New Online Interface

A new online interface, the CIBSE Knowledge Portal, is to be launched to improve acess to information. The portal will ensure all of the institution's codified information is available via an online interface, with enhanced searching and browsing capabilities. Direct links to the LUCKINSlive product directory and BSI standards are some of the extra features that will be included to assist members and others in their day-to-day work. To make sure the interface offers the searches and results members need, CIBSE is looking to form a user group to test it for user friendliness and intuitiveness during its development stage.  If you are interested in helping to test it, and could spare time for two or three meetings in the next four months, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Helping Members in Need

Members are being reminded to get in touch with the CIBSE Benevolent Fund if they require help or support during a personal crisis. With some 20,000 members within the CIBSE family, it is inevitable that personal situations will arise due to bereavement or other domestic crisis. The fund, set up in 1933 helps those who may need a contribution twoards funeral expenses, for example, or financial help during sickness, or simply someone to listen and share a problem. Regional almoners provide this support, visiting and keeping in touch with needy cases. Should you be made aware of a member or dependant who is in need of the assistance available through the Benevolent Fund, contact your regional almoner, whose details are available from your regional secretary or from CIBSE. The fund is always in need of volunteers to help in its work, and should you feel able to offer some help towards the role of regional alomoner, it would be most welcome. 

The Great Renewable Heat Debate

The new coalition government has been active in many areas in its early days in office. One area has been subject to much discussion, reporting, and even rumour: the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Initially, it was not mentioned in the coalition agreement, provoking early anxiety that it would be scrapped. However, as officials pointed out in private, many topics were not covered, but this should not be taken to indicate that RHI would not go ahead. What they could not details however, was the form that the final RHI might take. Click here and scroll to page 16 to read the full article.

CIBSE News from July

Help Youngsters to Get Inspired

CIBSE is offering built environment professionals the opportunity to help entice youngsters into the building services industry. As reported in March, CIBSE signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Sector Skills Council, SummitSkills.  The agreement commits the institutions to working together to promote and develop the Building Services Engineering (BSE) Ambassadors scheme - part of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Ambassadors programme, which has more than 20,000 volunteers across the UK. STEM Ambassadors are all volunteers who act as inspiring role models to young people. Click here to read the full article in this month's CIBSE Journal.

YEN Champions

The shortlist for this year's YEN Champions Awards 2010 - recognising innovation in developing engineers of the future - has now been announced.  The awards, sponsored by Baxi Commercial Division, seek to reward those organisations which proactively champion young people in the industry.

Click here to see the shortlist.

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on 8 July, with each receiving a trophy and £1,000 of CIBSE training vouchers.  An additional trophy for the overall winner will also be presented.

Undergraduate Award 2010

This is your last chance to enter the CIBSE Undergraduate Award 2010. Sponsored by Hays Building Services, the award offers newly graduated students from BSc, BEng, MEng or MSc programmes industry recognition, as well as encouraging academic excellence. The first prize is £500, with a runner-up prize of £100.  To enter, simply send a 2,000 word synopsis of your final year project, together with the completed application form, by 31 July 2010. Click here for more information.

Graduate Entries Sought

The closing date for this year's CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of the Year award, sponsored by BAXI Commercial Division, is fast approaching. Entries need to be received by 30 July. Judging will take place on 7 October.  The award, which recognises the achievements and potential  of young engineers who have graduated in the last two years, offers the winner a trip to the ASHRAE winter conference in Las Vegas. Click here and scroll to page 16 for more information.

Annual General Meeting

CIBSE has held its annual general meeting (AGM).  An offical record of the meeting can be found in the July issue of CIBSE Journal.  Click here to see this.