YOUNG ENGINEERS AWARDS | WINNERS Winner Laura Luckhurst have a big and positive impact on climate change. Thats one of the reasons I am really proud to be an engineer. Every single person at the awards has a role to play to have a positive impact on climate change over the course of their whole career in building services, he added. Technology drive Third-placed finalist Tom Lusty, who graduated from Coventry University in 2018, said the pivot point on which the three agendas sit, was constantly moving. Since I came to this industry in 2013, Ive seen the pivot change, the environment change and technology has developed rapidly. Whether we like it or not, the future is going to be technological, and weve got to harness that to strike a balance into the future. Lusty said the Internet of Things (IoT) a new language that can connect almost everything through the internet lighting controls and Power over Ethernet (PoE) could not only help occupant health and wellbeing, but also drive down energy use and maximise the needs of the global environment. Second-placed nalist Felix Cox Third-placed nalist Tom Lusty He said PoE had changed the convention and lighting was becoming a separate entity in building services engineering. You can have a data network and everything is interconnected, and that means every light fitting could be a monitoring point or smart sensor, said Lusty. Through this, we can monitor occupants and give feedback to stakeholders. Lusty said smart grids, networking and battery storage were helping to manage peak demand when the sun isnt shining and the wind isnt blowing, adding that technologies like electric vehicles and grid charging could inform the future. Lusty said combined heat and power at the right time in 2013 was the right energy solution but, as we start to decarbonise, we have to start looking at the electrification of heat and the idea that we are going to move away from gas, and electric-source heat pumps are going to become the future. He said this, together with vehicle charging, means there will be a higher demand for electricity. If renewables are going to plug that gap, we need to come up with a right time, right place solution. This is where smart integrated technologies like IoT can help us balance the supply and demand problem, he said. CJ Read about the Employer of the Year winners on page 17. 28 November 2019 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Nov19 pp26-28 Young Engineers Awards.indd 28 25/10/2019 14:45