We are well underway with the final preparations for this years culmination event on Friday 17th June.
We are holding our first Burgess Hill science week and hope our schools enjoy themselves.
For more information and how you may wish to take part next year, please contact MSSW.
We need to harness the younger generation and at BSE 3D we are keen for the ‘young people of today’ to become the ‘engineers of tomorrow’. For that we need to engage with them early enough to develop and may be ‘light a spark’!
BSE 3D in partnership with the Local Authority and primary schools from the Crawley area have been given the opportunity to be involved. Students from years 2 and 3 have been selected for this special science engineering project.
BSE 3D Director, Carl Morphew will be visiting each school to announce the project and what their task will be. We don’t want to give too much away at this stage, all we can say…’it will be a fantastic opportunity to put their imagination to good use‘.
We are delighted to offer this wonderful experience to the younger generation to help develop and broaden their horizons and inspire them for the future.
“At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative practical solutions. It’s a noble profession.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II
BSE 3D are represented at MIPIM and will be attending the pre-launch event for an evening of networking!
MIPIM, now in it’s 30th edition, gathers the most influential professionals from all sectors of the property industry, from over 100 countries across four days in March.
Investing in your business by expanding your network, meeting potential new business partners, investors and showcasing your own projects to international buyers.
Bringing together the entire value chain and unrivalled access to development projects worldwide.
You may or may not be aware that the GLA have released new guidance for the production of a London Plan energy report. The upshot is that whilst the over target of improvement of Part L hasn’t changed, the way you achieve it has, which puts more onus on the fabric and services before renewable technologies are considered.
In October they changed the way energy assessment needs to be calculated and written for Domestic and Non-Domestic Buildings. The changes to the method of reporting has been summarised below:
Modelling the energy hierarchy in IES or SAP:
Be Lean – Includes passive measures as before but also has to include active measures (lighting, HVAC efficiencies etc). The results of the Be Lean phase then have to result in the following improvements:
The green measures will then further improve to hit the 35% reduction in CO2 over Part L 2018 requirement.
Overheating has to follow guidelines (Cooling hierarchy) as required in Policy 5.9 of the London Plan and also as detailed in the guidance.
The results then have to be reported as stipulated on pages 16-20 of the document. Figures need to be converted into Tonnes of CO2 per annum.
The targets highlighted in items 1 and 2 above potentially will have an impact on how we design buildings as we now have two targets to hit. Firstly passing Part L 2013 by 15% without any renewables, which can be difficult to achieve for certain types of buildings and then secondly achieving the overall 35% reduction with renewables.
And in addition to, the document states the following (At the Be Green Stage)
“The GLA expects all major development proposals to maximum on-site renewable energy generation. This is regardless of whether a 35% target has already been reached through earlier stages of the energy hierarchy. In particular, solar PV should be maximised on roof spaces”
and
11.5. For the avoidance of doubt, heat pumps are categorised under this third and final element (be green) of the energy hierarchy (not the first element, “be lean”).
Which changes the approach for the first level of carbon savings.
Directors Phil Todd and Carl Morphew joined hundreds of industry professionals at the awards’ ceremony in London. Honours are awarded to recognise achievement in design excellence within the United Kingdom.
Working in partnership with Architects’ Brick by Brick and appointed contractor, BSE3D were part of the design team working to develop the planning scheme and complete the detailed design for delivery of the Station Road project which is currently under construction and featured in the article below from The Architects’ Journal.
Picture from The Architects’ Journal
Article in The Architects’ Journal – Drawn up by Brick by Brick, the arm’s length development company of Croydon Council, this year’s masterplan category winner is a truly pioneering piece of pan-borough urban thinking.
The Croydon Smaller Sites Programme sets out how more than 1,000 new homes will be built on 50 infill plots previously considered to be unviable, combining them into a single masterplan with ‘far-reaching placemaking benefits’.
The jury said: ‘This is a ground-breaking approach. The programme has created a strategy for maximising leftover spaces in the borough and making sure these were developed using an innovative model, which was a at the same time ambitious for quality and equitable for the citizens of Croydon.
‘Rather than development being done to the borough, the borough is driving its own development.’RW
BSE3D are delighted to have been associated with such a ground breaking design.