CIBSE NEWS Disruptive times ahead for services engineering IN BRIEF Inspiring the nextgeneration CIBSE Home Counties North East Region attended a Your Future 18 event at the Towngate Theatre, Basildon, in October. Armed with enthusiasm, stacks of leaflets, banners and a levitating ball machine, the CIBSE volunteers spoke to parents and students about possible careers in engineering. With an emphasis on building services, they sought to enlighten them about the rewards and prospects of choosing to go into the sector. It is rare to find a building services engineer who planned to become one, so it is essential that the industry does all it can to attract tomorrows talent. Such whole town events make very good use of volunteers time, and thanks go to Anas Yunis, Mohammad Rezvan, Andrew Saville, Curtis Gregory and AustinWilliamson for their help inBasildon. ANZ Region hears how industry must adapt to world of smart buildings CIBSE Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Regions seminar series, titled Anatomy of a smart building, in October, highlighted the many issues and challenges that building services engineers will face in the near future. According to the World Economic Forum, engineering and construction have been slow to embrace technological opportunities. Rapidly changing expectations of building owners and tenants, however, mean the anatomy of a smart building will look very different from that of its traditional counterpart. Jonathan Clarke, associate director, Norman Disney and Young, said: Why approach smart buildings in the same way as we have been doing automation for the past 15 years? CIBSE UK membership application deadline The next deadline for UK Associate (ACIBSE) and Member (MCIBSE) applications with IEng and CEng registration is 1 February 2019. A number of resources are available on the CIBSE website to help with the application process, including sample reports and webinars. CIBSE will be running application writing workshops and surgeries in the lead-up to the deadline. Find all the information you need to get started at www.cibse.org/ closingdate and make sure you follow #CIBSETopTips on Twitter and LinkedIn for application advice. Series speakers (from left): Wayne Gass, senior security consultant, Jacobs; Paul Dearlove, technical director, IBMS; Dr Hywel Davies, technical director, CIBSE; Jon Clarke, associate director and controls group manager, Digital Buildings, NDY; Brett Naylor, group manager digital delivery, BECA; Chris Wallbank, head of energy and sustainability services, JLL Australia; and (front) Andrew Crabtree, CIBSE WA chair According to seminar speakers, the industry can look forward to disruption. Companies building management and control systems may have a limited future if they continue to focus on traditional architecture, with software as a service and the Internet of Things solutions driven by organisations not normally associated with building services. People working in controls will need to find new ways of doing things, while a few in the installation, maintenance and diagnostics space can expect to be replaced by artificial intelligence and plug and play equipment. The hard part will be guessing how this disruption will play out, presenters stressed. Sensor technology, for example, has come on in leaps and bounds, and it is now possible to measure all sorts of parameters from occupancy and temperature through to CO2 and Volatile organic compounds levels throughout an occupied space. Who owns the data and has access to it, and how its manipulated, need consideration. Some new-generation sensors are coming from suppliers that have no track record. There may be concern about whether they will be in business in five or 10 years time, and what this could mean for a building owner who commits to 5,000 sensors if the supplier folds. The motivation for adopting new technologies and approaches is often the fear of being left behind, and the desire to do new and exciting things with our buildings. But as Matthew Clifford, head of energy and sustainability services, JLL, said: We need to avoid the situation where we create solutions looking for problems. Speakers also pointed to the need for services engineers to adapt to the problems associated with cyber security. 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