Next Showroom -
Heat Pumps and Noise: Are we running headlong into a cacophony?
1pm, 22 March, Francesco Pellisari and Jason Palmer
Expect one on your street very soon. Its effects will come at you at 343 metres a second - the speed of sound. But will it bother you? Will you even notice? We've taken measurements of noise at heat pumps installed in homes. There is clear evidence that acoustics play little part in the ways heat pumps are usually installed in buildings. Unsurprisingly, this creates problems and complaints - sometimes worse. However, there are ways to mitigate noise impacts from heat pumps. We'll tell you how.


The Golden Thread: A Personal Journey
This talk illustrates Gary Clark’s contribution to the golden thread of sustainable design beginning with his time at the Martin Centre in the early 1990s.

Designing for Efficient Effective and Health Enhancing Workplaces
Dr Stamatina Rassia, Lecturer Portsmouth University, CAR Associate Can we design office environmental layouts to influence occupant physical activity and health?Approach to environmental design: Experience

The Architecture and Engineering of Downdraught Cooling
Brian Ford, Chair in Bioclimatic Architecture, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham This talk described the results of a research and dissemination

Design Directions seen at CABE
Diane Haigh, Director of Design Review, The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment CABE reviews the designs for the most significant schemes in the

EEFIT Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Mission to Haiti
Keiko Saito, CAR The Mw 7.0 Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010 caused devastating damage to the already improvised nation. Remotely sensed images were used

“What, you mean you’re still using email?”: A personal view of the past, present and future of Internet communication.
Mark Skipper, CAR Associate “What, you mean you’re still using email?”: A personal view of the past, present and future of Internet communication 26 May,