CIBSE NEWS Technical research recognised with awards Last awarded in 1999, the Dufton and Barker medals have been reinstated Four technical papers covering a diverse range of issues of industry-wide interest have been recognised with awards by CIBSE. The papers covering energy and indoor environmental quality in schools; Passivhaus in tropical climates; daylight and overheating in low-energy design; and the effect of boiler Team MS Lighting Design won the 2021 Peer Prize 2020 in CIBSEs Building Services Research and Technical Journal (BSER&T). Joining the Napier Shaw and Carter Bronze Medal awards for technical papers are the newly reinstated Dufton Medal and Barker Medal last awarded in 1999 to allow more high-quality papers to be recognised. The Dufton Silver and Napier Shaw Bronze Medals are awarded for papers relating to fundamental research. The Barker Silver and Carter Bronze Medals are awarded to papers on application of research in practice. The Dufton Silver Medal for 2021 goes to Balancing daylight and overheating in low- Lighters compete in annual competition The Society of Light and Lightings Ready Steady Light (SLL) event, held in partnership with Rose Bruford College, took place in October. The annual competition sees teams compete to design and set up temporary exterior installations with limited equipment in three hours. Teams were tasked with lighting their site in its natural state with the equipment provided. While the lighting community has worked to overcome the challenges presented by the pandemic, new starters may have missed the crucial interaction of getting to work alongside colleagues in a shared space. As such, the SLL felt it was more important than ever to provide design practices, students and lighting professionals with an opportunity to have fun and work together, with the added element of some friendly competition. Three awards were up for grabs, with a panel of judges deciding the winners of the SLL Technical and Artistic Awards, supported by the IALD; the Peer Prize was decided by the contestants. Team Michael Grubb Studio won the 2021 Technical Award. Team Franklite won the 2021 Artistic Award, and Team MS Lighting Design won the 2021 Peer Prize. Further support and equipment are provided by Lee Filters, Light Collective, Signify, White Light, Whitecroft and Zumtobel Group. Students enrolled in Rose Bruford Colleges Lighting and Design BA course support the event, giving them the opportunity to see lighting professionals working in this unique environment. energy design using CIBSE improved weather by Eleonora Brembilla, Christina J Hopfe, John Mardaljevic, Anastasia Mylona and Eirini Mantesi. This considers the requirements to balance the light available in a space so as to reduce overheating risk, The Napier Shaw Bronze Medal is awarded to Roy Candra Sigalingging, David Chow and Steve Sharples for Applying the Passivhaus standard to a terraced house in a hot and humid tropical climate: Evaluation of comfort and energy performance, which considers how the Passivhaus approach can be adapted and adopted to this climate. The Barker Silver Medal is awarded to Building performance evaluation: Balancing energy and indoor environmental quality in a UK school building by Nishesh Jain, Esfand Burman, Craig Robertson, Samuel Stamp, Clive Shrubsole, Francesco Aletta, Edward Barrett, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang, Peter Raynham, D Mumovic and Mike Davies. It has been cited in 10 papers one of the highest levels of citation in BSER&T. The Carter Bronze Medal goes to George Bennett and Cliff Elwell for Effect of boiler study. It looks at the impact of a traditional Eleonora Brembilla Anastasia Mylona in everyday conditions, which has an impact on comfort and energy use. The awards will be presented at the CIBSE Presidents Awards dinner in February. CIBSE members can read the BSER&T Journal and Lighting Research and Technology (LR&T) Journal as part of their membership at www.cibse.org/knowledge Journal scores highly in survey A recent readership survey has revealed strong ongoing support for CIBSE Journal. More than 90% of respondents rated the Journal as excellent or good. When asked to rate the technical coverage, 87% rated it as excellent or good. Case studies, technical articles and CPD rated highest when asked to rate different sections, however, all sections rated highly. There was also feedback on how long people spend reading each edition: 42% said 30-60 minutes with 26% taking more than an hour over the monthly magazine, 37% of respondents said they accessed the Journal online, with 23% reading both the online and print edition, and 39% reading the print edition. The website received positive feedback, with 78% rating it as either excellent or good, while 93% of those who accessed CIBSE Journal webinars rated them as interesting/informative. The Journal podcast series was also positively reviewed with 88% of those who had listened rating them as interesting/informative. A large number of respondents were not aware or had not listened to them, so we will be doing more to promote these to a wider audience. Thank you to the 450 people who responded to the reader survey in October. 10 December 2021 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Dec21 pp10-12 CIBSE News.indd 10 26/11/2021 13:56