Breathing Buildings is set to showcase its complete ventilation solution of natural, hybrid, and mechanical ventilation for schools, colleges, and universities on Stand 208 at the Education Estates Exhibition and Conference. Taking place at the Manchester Central...
Breathing Buildings, a leading provider of controlled natural and hybrid ventilation systems, has added to its award-winning natural ventilation with heat recycling (NVHR) range with its new NVHR® 1700. This larger unit is ideal for leisure centres, halls, sport...
Breathing Buildings were delighted once again to attend the bi-annual MAGIC Partners Meeting held at Downing College, Cambridge on March 25th, 2019. Attendees came from across industry, policy and academia, with fascinating talks from, amongst others, Cambridge County...
Breathing Buildings is delighted to announce that it has won a prestigious Energy Award. Recognising the vital importance of good indoor air quality and thermal comfort in schools, the Cambridge-based company’s new energy efficient NVHR® (Natural Ventilation with Heat...
Breathing Buildings, UK’s leading provider of controlled hybrid ventilation systems, has launched a new sector-specific brochure aimed at ventilation applications in education. ‘Ventilation for Schools’ outlines key considerations for ventilation in schools and...
YMCA East Anton is a purpose-built nursery for 0-5 year olds which opened in October 2017. At early design stage it was suggested that the classrooms should have mechanical ventilation systems. However, YMCA had concerns about the energy use as well as maintenance...
21 st & 22 nd November 2017, Olympia, London Breathing Buildings is delighted to be presenting a seminar at the CIBSE Build2Perform Live, taking place on 21st and 22nd November 2017 at Olympia, London. Breathing Buildings’ Consulting Manager, Dr Owen...
The recently completed Bloomberg headquarters in London has set a new world record BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ sustainability rating for an office building at design-stage. It is hoped that the building will serve as a stimulus for other projects in London with...
Breathing Buildings use weather files provided by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) in order to model overheating in buildings throughout the year. CIBSE provides two types of weather file, for 14 locations across the UK: -The Test...
Our latest innovation is the NVHR+, it combines hybrid ventilation with automatic morning pre-heat, extreme weather heating and frost protection. The integrated LTHW heater coil is neatly integrated into the end of the NVHR unit adding just 500mm to the overall...
Breathing Buildings were recently invited to give a talk at the CABE (Chartered Association of Building Engineers) South West Regional Conference. This years event was held at the striking Haynes International Motor Museum in Somerset. The event was attended by 150...
Breathing Buildings are excited to announce that we will be co-chairing the CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group programme during Build2Perform Live, Nov 21-22 2017.The natural ventilation group programme includes sessions planned on: Assessment Methods (including...
In an article which first appeared in the CIBSE Journal August 2016, Breathing Buildings discusses how engineers need to think strategically to understand how sub-systems interrelate. It is right and proper that society demands higher quality buildings. By this,...
As Breathing Buildings celebrate their 10th anniversary, when better to pause, grab a brew and take stock of what’s happened! What have we done, who have we helped, and what’s next? We’ve emerged from a Cambridge University research project to a team of Chartered...
Breathing Buildings attended the 2016 CIBSE Technical Symposium at Heriot-Watt University. Dr Owen Connick highlighted the amazing impact engineers can have on a project if they are engaged at the start of a process. The case study on the net zero energy Costa Coffee...
Last week, three intrepid engineers from the Breathing Buildings ventured into the far north (Edinburgh) in search of Haggis, Kilts and the CIBSE Technical Symposium at Heriot Watt University. We failed to consume any Haggis and didn’t wear a kilt the whole two-days,...
Breathing Buildings has been following developments of Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament, which establishes a framework for the ecodesign requirements for energy-related products – in particular ventilation systems. These regulations officially came...
Breathing Buildings Consulting Engineer Dr Owen Connick has written an article for the latest edition of the CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group Newsletter. The article addresses overheating in London and reviews a recent CIBSE report into new London DSY weather...
The landmark Breathing Buildings Houghton-le-Spring Primary Care Centre is profiled in the August 2015 edition of the CIBSE Journal. (http://portfolio.cpl.co.uk/CIBSE/201508/natural-ventilation/) The article describes how the building is performing and reveals the...
100 pioneers and leaders from the construction industry came to the University of Cambridge organised Building the World of Tomorrow event on 21 July 2015. The afternoon comprised of a number of presentations designed to inspire and challenge the delegates. Prof Paul...
Shaun Fitzgerald spoke about the Breathing Buildings pioneering Houghton-le-Spring Primary Care Centre as part of the Natural Ventilation session chaired by Martin Liddament. See the June 2015 edition of CIBSE Journal for an article on the CIBSE Technical Symposium...
Prof Cam Middleton from the University of Cambridge and Breathing Buildings are arranging an Industry-Academia research event on Building the World of Tomorrow. The event is to be hosted at the Department of Engineering in the main lecture theatre LT0 on Tuesday 21...
Natural ventilation specialist Breathing Buildings has worked in collaboration with Emission Zero, design consultant and architect, and other members of the design and construction team to create the UK's first zero energy retail building for Costa. The impressive new...