EVENTS NATIONAL EVENTS AND CONFERENCES CIBSE Building Performance Awards Below-ground building drainage 15 February, London Power system harmonics The winner of the new Building Performance Engineer Award will be unveiled, along with 13 other category winners, during a celebration of excellence and achievement across the industry. Guest speaker is Dr Sarah Prichard, partner at BuroHappold Engineering. www.cibse.org/bpa 25 January, London CIBSE TRAINING 29-31 January, London For details, visit www.cibse.org/training or call 020 8772 3640 Overview of IET wiring regulations 8 January, London Successful design management 15 January, London Low carbon consultant design training 28-29 January, London The new London Plan 29 January, London Electrical services explained Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) 1 February, London Standby diesel generator 4 February, London Mechanical services explained 5-7 February, Birmingham HIGHLIGHTS Fire risk assessment to PAS 79 16 January, London Building services one-day overview 17 January, London Energy efficiency building regulations: Part L Dr Sarah Prichard will speak at the Building Performance Awards 18 January, London Low carbon consultant building operations training 21-23 January, London Practical controls for HVAC systems 23 January, London Ian Chapman will speak at the North East BIM event on 8 January Mentoring skills workshop 24 January, London Low carbon consultant design training 6-7 February, Manchester Air conditioning inspection for buildings 7 February, London Fundamentals of digital engineering (including BIM) 8 February, London Overview of IET wiring regulations (18th edition) 11 February, London Fire sprinkler systems: design to BS EN 12845 11 February, London Emergency lighting to comply with fire-safety requirements 12 February, London Fire safety in purposebuilt blocks of flats 15 February, London CIBSE GROUPS, SOCIETIES AND REGIONS For more information about these events, visit: www.cibse.org/events North East: Building information modelling 8 January, Newcastle upon Tyne Presentation by Ian Chapman, Mott MacDonald. West Midlands: Soft landings 9 January, Birmingham The 2018 Soft Landings Framework update and new publications to support clients and project-delivery teams. CIBSE closing date surgery West Midlands: Bluesbusting quiz night 24 January, Birmingham Join CIBSE WM YET to beat the January blues with a quiz night at Bierkeller. Preston: Technical meeting and Gilberts research centre visit 24 January, Blackpool Technical meeting at Gilberts, with live diffuser testing within the air-movement test centre. North West: Annual celebration dinner 25 January, Manchester Annual celebration dinner offering the chance to mingle with familiar and new faces from the industry. CIBSE ANZ: Power-outage solutions 12 February, West Perth Presentation on some of the most reliable backup power equipment manufactured by Magellan Power. CIBSE UAE: Annual dinner 10 January, London Member applicants can book a 20-minute slot with a CIBSE interviewer to discuss the draft Engineering Practice report and interview process. 20 February, Dubai With speaker Simon Penney, Her Majestys Trade Commissioner for the MEAP, from the British Embassy, Dubai. South West: Debate Passivhaus: the rewards and challenges in social housing East Midlands: Annual dinner 17 January, Bristol CIBSE and RIBA South West host a debate. North West: Annual celebration dinner 22 January, London With Andrew Hawes, director of special projects, Burgess Management Consultants 8 March, Nottingham With guest speaker Paul Boardman, stand-up comedian and writer. North East: Expert witness 12 March, Newcastle upon Tyne Gerry Brannigan, of HKA, will present on expertwitness work within building services engineering. SLL LightBytes 24 January, Liverpool 28 February, York 28 March, Bristol 25 April, Edinburgh 9 May, London The 2018-19 LightBytes series, in collaboration with the CIBSE Facilities Management Group, continues in 2019. There will be CPD peer-reviewed, bite-sized presentations on: how to specify a luminaire, with speakers discussing light sources, optics and electronics; retrofit and upgrade, exploring what needs to be considered with a retrofit project; emergency lighting, looking at emergency lighting throughout a building to beyond the exit door and a place of safety; and the Internet of Things, touching on the use of smart lighting for predictive or pro-active maintenance. Speakers will come from the Society of Light and Lightings (SLLs) sponsors, and will include: Les Thomas, Fagerhult; Richard Caple, Thorlux; Roger Sexton, Xicato; and Graeme Shaw, Zumbotel. For details, visit www.cibse.org/sll Richard Caple Roger Sexton 58 January 2019 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Jan19 pp58 Events.indd 58 21/12/2018 16:58