BREEAM Awards of Building performance Training Programme
The Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers have revealed the annual winner of the Building Performance Training Programme Award. The winner is BREâS Training sector, the BRE Academy. The award is for the BREEAM Associate course. The award is on amongst many used to celebrate innovative engineering. The other awards cover Facilities Management, Energy Saving Product of the year, collaborative working Partnerships; won by Joh Lewis, York/ Lateral technologies and Solutions/ Next Control Systems. Well established panel of judges taken from leading companies in the industry look at the products, projects and people that show excellence within the building industry. Other companies within the industry including HOK, Ferrovial, BT, BAM, SERGO, Grontmij, Arcadis, Assa Alboy, WSP/Parsons Birkerhof and ISG, had a hand creating the award winning course in a way that could develop the effectiveness of the application process of the BREEAM sustainability standard on a global scale. The BREEAM Associate course was created to allow efficient planning and educates its participants as to the right time to appoint assessors. The courseâs more important sections gives awareness to its takers of chances for getting the highest performance at the lowest possible cost while working within an acceptable range of parameters for a company. These parameters include health and wellbeing, energy efficiency, waste, water, pollution, materials, ecology and transport. The CIBSE Building Performance Awards were presented on the 7th February 2017 at Grosvenor House in Park Lane London. The CIBSE Building Performance Awards were presented at a special ceremony at the Grosvenor House in Park Lane, London on 7th February 2017. Previous winners of the Building Performance Training Programme Award include VolkerFitzpatrickâs Building Services Explained for VolkerFitzpatrickâs site teams, who won in 2016. The 2015 winner of the award was Operational Intelingent / Intel Chile for their Data Centre Risk and Energy Reduction Programme and Data Centre Client Requirements Workshops. Manufacturing & Engineering Magazine | The Home of Manufacturing Industry News
BT Announce New Fibre Optic Trial Success
BT have announced that they have had success in running two new fibre optic network trials, along with Chinese technology company Huawei. The first trial delivered 2 Terabits per second across a 727km live core link from Dublin to London, while the other pushed 5.6 Terabits per second through one optical fibre. The operator says that these trials are a big step forward from its previous closed network trial which took place in October 2014 and claimed record spectral efficiency. However, in this latest trial it is crucial that BT have been successful in applying that technology to their commercial fibre link, which can carry live customer traffic from Dublin to London. Although the latest trial is similar to the first closed network test of two years ago, it is a vision of what we could see in the future. The main of advantage of the upgrade would be that they will be done without the need for laying new fibre optic cables, which is a considerably cheaper method. CEO of BT Technology and Service, Howard Watson, said that BT Labs are still at the fore of research into photonics as they have been for over 30 years. He said it is crucial that BT’s core networks keep up with the growing demands for bandwidths that are spurred on by the high consumption of high-speed fibre broadband, 5G services and HD content. Watson added that BT are to invest in its core and in high-speed access technology including fibre broadband in order to ensure that the company delivers the fastest possible network for its customers. However, the operator will not be pushing the same improvements for its domestic connections as copper cables remain the primary limitation and would require much upgrading to keep pace with demand, something that shareholders would not be keen to invest in. Manufacturing & Engineering Magazine | The Home of Manufacturing Industry News
