June’s
soaring temperatures were a useful reminder for anyone working in building
design that overheating in buildings is an issue we must urgently address.
Increasingly airtight and highly insulated urban homes are particularly prone,
with excess glazing meaning mechanical ventilation is required to keep
buildings comfortable in summer.
Overheating is just
one of the issues we can tackle at MACH Energy. We are now applying our
technical and creative expertise to analyse a building’s performance
holistically, using modelling to understand how a range of scenarios affect
both the form and function of a building. Using this data, we can optimise the
design and identify the ‘sweet spot’ where a building’s level of comfort (heat,
light, noise) is balanced against its energy use and construction cost.
For this holistic approach,
we use our dynamic building physics modelling software to calculate how
ventilation, thermal comfort, daylighting and acoustics all interact. In the case of overheating, we look beyond
the design of the building’s envelope/façade to see how adjustments to its
orientation, u values, glazing and shading would enhance the design.
Find more information through http://www.machacoustics.com/explore/mach-energy/home, or get in touch
regarding your project or organise a CPD by emailing info@mach-energy.com
Charity
Efforts - T-Rex Marathon
On a more human scale
overheating is a familiar experience for one of our team, Chris Jones. Chris is
presently training to run the 2018 London Marathon wearing an inflatable 7 ft.
T-Rex costume, to raise money for the Evelina Children's Hospital in
London, which has supported his 6 year old cousin James through his
life-changing illness and operations for the past four years.
Ze Nunes, MACH Acoustics’ founder, has promised
to match any money raised in July for the appeal and will also contribute £5
for each comment received on this newsletter, so please support Chris via the
links on the left and follow the training antics until the big day!
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Thursday 20 July 2017
Summer Newsletter
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