CIBSE

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The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) represents building services engineers and their various specialties. CIBSE is the prime source of expertise for sustainable building. It offers advice, information, skill development and recognition to members, as well as being dedicated to the development of better buildings.

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Building Services: a dynamic industry
Building Services engineering is an ever evolving profession governed by forces as diverse as climate, energy and industry. The scope of the sector is extensive, covering everything from lighting, heating and ventilation, lifts and escalators, acoustics, plumbing, power supply and energy management systems to security and safety systems. With such wide ranging responsibilities, building services play a major role within the industry as a whole and are relied upon to make buildings work and to bring them to life.

Membership
CIBSE is the professional home for over 18,000 members from all parts of the building services industry. Practitioners and academics and with all levels of competence and qualifications are welcome to apply.

Campaigns
The 100 Days of Carbon Clean up campaign in 2006 challenged organisations to cut carbon emissions from within their workplaces over 100 days using a number of simple steps, recording the results with the aid of CIBSE’s TM22: Energy assessment and reporting method publication. The campaign was extremely successful and well received in the trade and national press. The Institution is now considering future campaigns.


Publications
CIBSE publishes a wide range of guides, technical memorandums, commissioning codes as well as the knowledge series set of books. Best sellers include Guide A: Environmental design, AM10: Natural ventilation in non-domestic buildings, TM37: Design for improved solar shading control, Knowledge Series KS06: Comfort and TM22: Energy assessment and reporting method.

Training
CIBSE Professional Learning has developed a range of courses on the core areas of building services engineering which can be accessed either as one off courses or to form the basis for a full training and development plan for new designers.


The Low Carbon Consultants Register
The Low Carbon Consultants Register was launched in September 2006 and has gone from strength to strength since then. The aim behind the scheme was to create a register of professionals who can design and operate more energy efficient buildings.

The Society of Light and Lighting
The Society of Light and Lighting is the senior professional body in the UK representing the interests of those involved in the art, science and engineering of light and lighting in their widest definition. It offers authoritative publications, professional recognition and a wide range of learned society activities.

Although it was launched only in 1999, the Society builds on nearly 100 years of history. Its origins go back to the formation in 1909 of the Illuminating Engineering Society which had the aim of considering all applications of natural and artificial light.

The Society has been formed as part of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers to offer the best of both worlds: the strength of a chartered professional institution with the freedom to serve the world of light and lighting without being restricted to engineering aspects.

It is thus able to welcome all those who contribute to the world of light and lighting: lighting designers, lamp and luminaire manufacturers, sales people, consultants, installers, facilities managers, ergonomists, interior designers, ophthalmologists, architects, physicists, entertainment lighting specialists; in fact anyone who has an interest in any aspect of light and lighting.

The aims of the Society are:

• To promote the benefits of good lighting
• To provide professional recognition of those who have qualifications and/or experience in light and lighting
• To establish and promote good practice in lighting design and engineering in all their facets
• To provide a forum where people interested in all aspects of light and lighting can come together
• To set and maintain standards in education for light and lighting
• To advise government and other authoritative bodies on the best use and application of light and lighting.

Published advice on good lighting
For many years the IES, the CIBSE Lighting Division and now the Society of Light and Lighting have provided the authoritative guidance documents used by those involved in lighting, including regular revisions of the Code for Interior Lighting (now known as the Code for Lighting). This is now available in printed form or as a CD-ROM. The Society also has a wide range of Lighting Guides providing practical information on aspects of lighting ranging from subjects of general importance such as office lighting to more specialist documents such as that on specification and measurement of surface reflectance and colour. The Code for Lighting and Lighting Guides are regularly revised and updated, and new titles issued.

Benefits of membership
By joining the Society you will be able to:

• Participate in the activities of the country’s foremost lighting body including monthly meetings in London from September to May
• Keep up-to-date with developments in lighting design and technology, and with the innumerable other applications of light and lighting
• If you have suitable qualifications and experience in light and lighting, gain the right to use the designatory letters MSLL (Member) or FSLL (Fellow)
• Receive the Society’s Newsletter six times a year as well as receiving The Lighting Journal and the monthly official CIBSE journal, Building Services Journal
• Purchase all the publications of the Society of Light and Lighting and CIBSE publications (including those produced in electronic format) at substantial discounted prices
• Receive the world renowned quarterly research journal Lighting Research & Technology at a special members’ subscription rate
• Take part in forming policy on technical and design matters important to lighting
• Come to Society conferences and other events at concessionary rates
• Attend meetings on lighting and other topics organised by the CIBSE Regions
• Receive occasional free Factfiles on matters of topical interest ranging from the Building Regulations to car park lighting
• Take part in activities of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers at reduced member rates.

Classes of membership
• The Society offers a range of classes of membership related to members’ qualifications and experience in light and lighting, regardless of whether members are engineers or not.
• There is also a scheme for companies.

Daylight
The Society has close links with the CIBSE Daylight Group which organises regular events around the country.

Professional advice
The Society publishes a Directory of Lighting Consultants which is made available to those seeking independent professional advice on lighting matters. To be included in the Register, a practice must employ at least one holder of the Lighting Diploma. The Directory is revised annually and can be accessed on the Society

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