Parts of Siberia are hotter than Washington, with temperatures nearly 40 degrees above average washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/0… Snow cover is disappearing, sea ice is melting and fires, including possible ‘zombie’ blazes, are raging. Andrew Freedman Matthew Cappucci

One explanation for England’s stubbornly high number of daily Covid-19 deaths Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

#COVID19 and #ventilation of #buildings during #winter2020: #RAMP #Task7 #document A massive efforts by team & a must read: Check out here arxiv.org/pdf/2009.12781… Henry Burridge @CathNoakes @pfl4539 The Royal Society Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Physics of Life GCARE@AirPollSurrey @GuildfordLivingLab @CllrReeves

You would have had got pretty long odds on the first snow of winter being in Cambridge CB1 6/10 #uksnow

Perfecting #Passivhaus - in CIBSEJournal's recent article, our Passivhaus Leader Gwilym Still chronicles the development of the challenging #energy & comfort standard at our Practice, and explains why it's integral to our #netzero #carbon strategy: cibsejournal.com/uncategorized/…

Packed room for @NABERS_UK breakfast briefing this morning. Slide from Carlos Flores (he/him) NABERS illustrates financial benefits of having a #NABERS rating for a commercial building Better Buildings Partnership

Creating tiny pockets of air inside wood makes it three times as good at insulating heat and 10 times better at blocking sound newscientist.com/article/235335…

Podcast: tackling whole-life carbon in air conditioning: This CIBSEJournal podcast sponsored by Daikin, discusses the challenges of decarbonising cooling across a building’s lifetime with 4 experts discussing how to reduce operational and embodied carbon buff.ly/49pWKWI

Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation states that fossil-fuel boilers won't be allowed in new homes including hybrid boilers and hydrogen-ready boilers. gov.uk/government/con…

Heat network policy session first up at @FutureBuildNow John Allison (left) DESNZ: ‘Heat Network Zoning provides confidence that heat networks are the right solution for selected urban areas. It doesn’t mean heat networks won’t be most effective solution outside heat zones’

.@FutureBuildNow as busy as ever. Managed to get in a quick game of golf on CIBSE stand before first session on heat networks. All balls with 19 seconds left if anyone is competing.

5 years after signing net zero into law Rt Hon Chris Skidmore says Conservative approach is hugely damaging because of move to new oil/gas licences and jettisoning of world leading position on net zero. ‘It makes me angry this has been thrown away as part of a culture war’ @InstallerSHOW

In the opening keynote at CIBSE #Build2Perform President-elect Vince Arnold says building services engineers have a unique opportunity to shape buildings and communities, and the urban enviroments in which they exist. CIBSE

Standing room only at embodied energy session #Build2perform chaired by Dr Joe Jack Williams. Signed copies of TM65 available! CIBSE

Claire Brierley shares Hoare Lea comparison study on whole life carbon of MEP systems in offices. Refrigerant has big impact on embodied carbon. Original study here cibsejournal.com/technical/calc… 1/2

Since study there are more low GWP refrigerants available but system efficiency must be taken into account. Summary - minimise refrigerant volume, reduce leakage rates, gather data, specify low GWP. 2/2 #build2perform

Why certifying design rather than actual performance good for energy efficiency in buildings. As demonstrated by BBP’s Rob MacWhannell - the slide shows similar energy performance whatever the building's EPC rating #NABERSUK #Build2Perform

Talking heat policy and hybrid heat pumps on a cold day with @Baxiboilers Jeff House, and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Laura Brassell (hybrid heat pump policy lead at DEZNS)

This lady has been lying with a badly injured shoulder on an isolated footpath for an hour in Fen Ditton. Can she be prioritised? @EastAngilaAmb The Good Samaritans with her have already rung 999.