Breathing Buildings, a provider of controlled natural and hybrid ventilation systems, has announced that its ‘Ventilation for Education and Commercial Buildings’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course is now approved by CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers).
The course is designed to give attendees a better understanding of the different ventilation strategies that can be used in education and commercial buildings, with a focus on natural, hybrid and hybrid heat recovery technology, and why these systems are needed under current building regulations.
Continuing Professional Development is a long-term commitment to undertake, maintain, improve, and broaden knowledge and skills. CIBSE members are required by the Code of Professional Conduct to maintain professional competence, with CIBSE providing clear guidance and support for professional development to enable members to develop their career. Breathing Buildings’ aim is to help construction professionals widen their knowledge regarding the different ventilation strategies available to ensure buildings have energy efficient ventilation that improves indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort.
The Breathing Buildings ‘Ventilation for Education and Commercial Buildings’ CPD therefore provides delegates with a greater understanding of: the basics of natural ventilation; mixing ventilation; new hybrid heat recovery and mixing systems; current requirements and legislation affecting buildings; ventilation strategies; and examples of natural ventilation applications.
Within the one-hour CPD, delegates will have the opportunity to find out more about the next generation of sustainable hybrid ventilation with heat recovery, such as the company’s NVHRe – Natural Ventilation with Heat Recycling and Heat Recovery. This is timely since the CPD comes as CIBSE introduced a mandatory requirement from 2024 for members to undertake CPD courses around sustainability and safety.
Louise McHugh, Product Manager at Breathing Buildings, comments, “We are thrilled that this CPD course is now CIBSE-approved. ‘Ventilation for Education and Commercial Buildings’ aims to help specifiers select the right solution for their building.
“The UK has a legal target to meet net zero by 2050 so it’s vital that specifiers consider how to reduce carbon in our buildings. Choosing a low carbon ventilation strategy can help, such as natural, hybrid or hybrid with heat recovery ventilation. This CPD outlines these systems as well as how they can help meet regulations and provide good indoor air quality and thermal comfort.”
Delegates will find out more about how specifiers can reduce the amount of energy used in a building and reduce carbon emissions by using natural ventilation within a ventilation strategy, whether natural, hybrid or hybrid with heat recovery ventilation.
Natural ventilation is a low energy way to provide a flow of fresh air through a building using the natural forces of wind and/or buoyancy. With modern buildings tending to be well insulated, to prevent rising CO2 levels you need to provide fresh air. Natural ventilation is a low energy way to provide this fresh air using the natural tendency of hot air to rise and cold air to sink.
Meanwhile, the CPD will explain how hybrid ventilation combines both natural and mechanical ventilation solutions using mechanical fans only when natural ventilation is not sufficient. The CPD will also outline the latest hybrid technology.
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