CIBSE NEWS IN BRIEF Wanted: applications for lighting bursary Applications are invited for the SLL Jean Heap Research Bursary. Open to anyone with an interest in light and lighting, the bursary makes available up to 4,000 for a specific piece of lighting study or research designed to benefit SLL members and industry. Launched in 2014, the bursary is a tribute to the commitment to lighting research and education that Jean demonstrated throughout her career in the lighting industry. Manuel Spitschan won the 2020 bursary for his research proposal luox.app: development, validation and refinement of a free, openaccess tool for calculations related to light and lighting. To apply and to view Spitschans video, visit bit.ly/CJMar21CN1 The entry deadline is 31 March 2021. CIBSEs unsung heroes tackling the global pandemic CIBSEs 19 Special Interest Groups publish key Covid-19 advice while engaging online, as Julian Jones, senior membership services coordinator, explains TM65 embodied carbon methodology now available CIBSE Knowledge has released a new publication: Embodied carbon in building services: a calculation methodology (TM65). It presents why the assessment for embodied carbon of products linked to mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) systems is needed to facilitate research in whole-life carbon in MEP systems. It also offers guidance on using environmental product declarations (EPDs) for MEP systems and how to estimate the embodied carbon of MEP products when EPDs are not available. Download your copy at cibse.org/TM65 Dont lose your membership CIBSE is busy managing membership renewals at this time. Thank you to all who have renewed. In the last year, membership has granted you access to 20 new titles produced by the CIBSE Knowledge team Portal. CIBSE has also brought to you a large number of webinars and events. CIBSEs training offering has grown, and in 2021 the discount members can receive for training has increased to 15%. Receive all the benefits of being a CIBSE member by renewing your membership today. Email membership@cibse.org Volunteers from CIBSEs Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have spent the past 12 months navigating the Covid-19 crisis with a combination of resilience, intelligence and technical expertise. As well as publishing key guides on reducing the risk of Covid-19 in the built environment, they have also had to manage the migration online of committee meetings and technical discussions. The SIGs contribute towards research and knowledge in specialist areas of the built environment, for the benet of CIBSE members and beyond. All have a common objective: to improve the built environment with a focus on the sustainability and health and wellbeing of buildings. The industrious work these volunteers carry out justies their status as the unsung heroes of CIBSE. One early adopter of online meetings was the Intelligent Buildings Group (IBG), which aims to help built environment specialists use intelligence (in systems, scope or design) to realise buildings with high social, environmental and economic objectives. Professor Derek Clements-Croomes monograph Designing buildings for people: sustainable liveable architecture was published in June 2020. This work typies the IBGs approach to transdisciplinary research, and it has collaborated with designers, architects, planners, digital sociologists and many others. Online seminars have been held on intelligent buildings post-Covid, with subjects including intelligent campuses, biophilic design, and the fourth industrial revolution. Other groups have been working to minimise the disruption caused by the pandemic. The Energy Performance Group, chaired by Roger Macklin, has migrated online its popular power hour sessions, in which speakers give speed presentations on topics such as carbon offsetting, responsible refurbishment, low carbon heat networks, and energy use under Covid-19. The Young Energy Performance Group delivered a series of CPD sessions and podcasts aimed at engineers starting out on their careers. High-calibre technical guidance has also ourished despite the pandemic and, in many cases, has been led by the group volunteers. Among the most ambitious technical outputs has been that of the Lifts Group, which published a comprehensive revision of Guide D: Transportation systems in buildings in 2020, overseen by Dr Gina Barney, group chair. First issued in 1993, this document has been revised on a ve-year cycle to cover the latest developments in the design, installation and safe use of mechanical transportation in buildings. 12 March 2021 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE March 21 pp12-13 CIBSE News.indd 12 19/02/2021 15:28