CIBSE NEWS Talented trio recognised at CIBSE ANZ awards IN BRIEF CIBSE Covid-19 guidance accessed by thousands CIBSEs eight Covid-19 guidance documents were downloaded almost 40,000 times in 2021. Of these, Covid-19 Ventilation guidance v4 was downloaded 12,908 times in 2021, and v5, which was published in July, 8,631 times. The total number of downloads for the eight guides is 39,347 for 2021, while across 2020 and 2021 it is 73,000. Covid-19 guidance is available for free at www.cibse.org/ Coronavirus-(COVID-19) Young engineers impress judges with quality of their submissions and research Three young industry talents have been recognised for their outstanding work at the CIBSE Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Young Engineers Awards. Vivien Kha, of the University of New South Wales, an undergraduate hydraulics engineer at Northrop, won the Mark Griffin Award, Student of the Year. Neyra Nie, graduate electrical engineer at Beca, won the Graduate of the Year award, which has been renamed in honour of CIBSE ANZ and New South Wales committee member Haris Moraitis, who died in 2021. Bob Bean, lighting past president, dies It is with great sadness that CIBSE learned of the death of Robert (Bob) Bean, past president of the CIBSE Lighting Division, forerunner of the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), in October. Bob, who joined the Illuminating Engineering Society in 1964, was the first in Britain to provide education on illumination considering lighting equipment, photometry and lamp performance. Among publications, he co-authored with Ron Simons Light Fittings Performance and Design was one of the standard lighting text books in the 1970s. Bob had been an honorary fellow of the SLL since 2014, and was a member of the Lighting Research & Technology panel. Student of the Year, Vivien Kha CIBSE part of airborne infection research CIBSE is a key strategic partner supporting research on airborne infection reduction. The research hopes to help support the minimising of the risk of airborne transmission, acknowledging any implications on energy use and thermal comfort, along with indoor air quality and occupancy levels. Airborne Infection Reduction through Building Operation and Design for SARS-CoV-2 (Airbods) is a UKRI-funded research programme led by Professor Malcolm Cook, at Loughborough University, in partnership with University College London, the universities of Nottingham, Cambridge, and Sheffield, London South Bank University and Wirth Research. Information will be held at www.airbods.co.uk Graduate of the Year, Neyra Nie The Jack Pirie Award, Young Engineer of the Year, was won by Arky Elston, mechanical engineer at Aurecon. The awards are open to students, graduates and young engineers from Australia and New Zealand, who had to submit a three-minute video outlining how we can create spaces designed to last several generations while retaining flexibility to change, according to requirements, technology and cultural trends. The awards, hosted by Prateek Alkesh, the new ANZ Young Engineers Network chair, were held online in November, and featured a message from CIBSE chief executive Ruth Carter. . Young Engineer of the Year, Arky Elston Volunteers sought by PCC to help uphold professional conduct CIBSEs Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) is seeking additional volunteers to ensure its Code of Conduct is fit for the future, writes PCC chair Doug King. The PCC is tasked with maintaining the code and administering CIBSEs disciplinary procedures. As recent Journal articles have highlighted, new regulations on competence will require members of the Institution to demonstrate that they have appropriate skills, knowledge, experience and behaviour issues that are already at the heart of the Code of Conduct. The PCC meets three times a year, but additional work may be required from time to time, including implementing disciplinary procedures. Membership is open to CIBSE members of any grade. However, some experience of dealing with disputes or contractual issues as well as an interest in ethics would be beneficial. We particularly welcome expressions of interest from those who can bring experience or knowledge of groups or sectors that are traditionally under-represented in the professional engineering institutions. Send your CV and a short statement explaining your interest in professionalism in the construction industry to Laura Webb, director of membership, standards and networks, at lwebb@cibse.org by 31 January 2022. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a short online interview. 12 January 2022 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Jan 22 pp12-14 CIBSE News v2.indd 12 23/12/2021 12:44