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• BSRIA offers guidance on wellbeing 

  The topical subject of wellbeing in buildings is discussed in a free downloadable guide from BSRIA. These topic guides are designed to be ‘at-a-glance’ publications to introduce readers to key industry topics and suggesting further reading. The guide (TG10/2016 At a glance — wellbeing) details factors such as thermal comfort, noise and indoor air-quality.

• BSRIA seeks to INSPIRE engineering talent 

  As part of its INSPIRE programme to help engage young people in engineering, BSRIA recently welcomed a group of year 9 (aged 13 and 14) pupils from Ranelagh School in Bracknell to its test facilities. They were presented with a challenge before their visit to design and make their own prototype ceiling grilles, which were then tested in a classroom mock-up.

• BSRIA launches guide to maintenance contracts 

  BSRIA’s guide ‘Maintenance contracts: a guide to best practice for procurement guide (BG66/2016)’ is aimed at helping clients, facilities managers and their organisations to understand better the key success factors in procuring maintenance contracts. It promotes ‘cutting-edge’ tender processes and procedures and supports the development of contract documentation.

• BSRIA controls study shows trend towards open protocols 

  The BACnet communications protocol for controls and building-management systems is increasing its dominance in the progress towards open communications protocols, according to BSRIA’s manager for intelligent buildings and homes Zoltan Karpathy (pictured), driven by the demand for increased integration. The trend is revealed in the recently published BSRIA market-intelligence study ‘World building automation and control systems 2016’.

• BSRIA Briefing looks at wellbeing in buildings  

  Delivering ‘wellbeing’ in buildings is more than ensuring that buildings ‘do no harm’ but to go beyond that to achieve buildings that ‘do good’ according to BSRIA’s new technical director Lynne Ceeney speaking at last month’s BSRIA Briefing ‘Making buildings better’. However, while wellbeing is a hot topic, she explained that there is no universally accepted definition for it — partly because wellbeing depends on context and task.