BUILDING REGULATIONS SEMINAR

In one of our lunchtimes, many of the staff attended a buildings regulation seminar, which discussed the new building regulations for 2010 onwards. It was said that in 2016, there will hopefully be 0% carbon buildings, as the carbon fuels are rapidly become dangerously low. There was also discussion on how there should be much more care on water temperatures, as temperatures such as 55 degrees Celsius can instantly kill if someone was to bathe in them. There was also background information of how fossil fuels are running at an all-time low, and graphs were made showing how else we can deal with this- by use of renewable sources- which all of us watched intently. The regulations for buildings part L (part L is conservation of fuel and power) will be made from 16th October 2010, where it will be extremely difficult to get the ventilation and the elevations to meet protocol. I found this meeting very interesting, but I feel that as I am very inexperienced in this at the moment I definitely would have understood the impacts for the buildings a lot less than anybody else!

The Seminar

Tim mulling over what to do.