Speaker: Prof. Andrew Geens, Head of CIBSE Certification

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Talk Abstract:

Ventilation in buildings passes under most people’s radar most of the time. When it is working well, nobody notices, and it has to be working really badly before anyone complains. The last time anyone was this interested in ventilation the contaminant was tobacco smoke. With smoking there was an option to ban it.  With COVID not so.  With reference to the published CIBSE guidance Andrew will cover ventilation principles with the aim of helping people understand what to expect from ventilation and what is required to make sure that it performs as intended.

Speaker Bio:

Professor Andrew Geens is Head of CIBSE Certification based in London and is responsible for the operation of personnel and management system certification schemes primarily associated with the energy performance of buildings.  Andrew was formerly a Principal Lecturer and Professor of Building Services Engineering in the Faculty of Advanced Technology at the University of Glamorgan. He has a BEng (Hons) and a PhD in Environmental Engineering, and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. His particular interests in indoor air quality, energy performance of buildings and low energy design of buildings complement his current role perfectly. 

Although the driver was better energy performance Andrews PhD took him into the field of ventilation, developing techniques to increase the cooling capacity of Displacement ventilation systems in order to reduce dependency on chilled ceilings. It turned out in the years that followed that these techniques had an application in improving indoor air quality which was of interest to the hospitality industry at the time.  Andrew’s field work was unusual and sought after, taking him as far afield as Moscow for field trials and New York where he was commissioned as an expert witness by a US Law Firm. 

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