2 CONTENTS News 8 News Covid-19 news and reactions; firms trial heat-as-a-service; Chancellor backs cleaner electricity and green heat; Fire Safety Bill 14 CIBSE news Technical Symposium postponed; undergraduate award opens for entries; industry-wide pledge to tackle climate change Voices 20 Look to the future While focused on the immediate impact of coronavirus, we need to look forward, too, says Hywel Davies 65 Q&A SoPHE Young Engineer of the Year award-winner Kier Loudon explains the inspiration behind his entry 36 Key influencers Features How Parrs Wood High students have responded to the climate emergency by making energy savings in their buildings 16 Mission Earth CIBSEs Vision, Mission and Values statements recognise members work in tackling the climate emergency 40 Building resilience into net-zero schools 22 An open book Andy Ford reviews Brian Fords book The Architecture of Natural Cooling 24 Ideal growing conditions Tim Dwyer gives a taste of the ASHRAE Winter Conference, which included seminars on the latest BACnet software 26 COVER FEATURE Preventing spread of Covid-19 in buildings Alex Smith summarises REHVA guidance on how to operate and use building services to minimise the spread of Covid-19 Educational Facilities Special 32 Core principles Andy Pearson looks at how the CIBSE award-winning retrofit of 22 Gordon Street saved 110,000 in annual bills Schools designed today must withstand future climate change Technical Read our Schools and Education Facilities Special from page 31 or online at www.cibsejournal.com 65 SPECIAL FEATURES Heating, water heaters and data centres 47 News A round-up of water heaters and data centre product news 50 Improvement measures Improving hot-water efficiency and space-heating provision 52 H2 water heaters Liza Young speaks to Rinnai about the challenges of trialling combustion from hydrogen 55 Power saving Phil Lattimore reports on using lithium-ion phosphate technology for data centre UPS backups 6 April 2020 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Apr20 pp06-07 Contents.indd 6 20/03/2020 17:22