All Technical Bulletins

The BREEAM AP provides the design team with guidance and support from the early stages of the design process, through to construction, to ensure that good environmental and sustainability practice is incorporated into a building in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

ISO50001 is an international energy management standard that provides a framework around people, information systems and technology to deliver sustained year on year energy and carbon savings. b:ssec is collaborating with IQS (UK) to offer full compliance and accreditation services.

b:ssec has been commissioned on many occasions to provide due diligence assessments of CHP (combined heat and power).

b:ssec was commissioned by one of the leading and fastest growing high street retailers to provide a due diligence assessment regarding voltage optimisation and the suitability of this technology for the retailer’s estate.

b:ssec was commissioned by an industrial manufacturing client to provide a due diligence assessment of a proposal received from a lighting supplier to change out lighting in 5 large industrial buildings.

b:ssec has worked with the carbon trust over the last year to compile three sets of case studies on the use of biomass in different sectors.

Weather Data: Future-proofing Low Carbon Buildings Climate change is happening, and although weather patterns are notoriously difficult to predict, it is a worthwhile exercise to look at the best available data and to incorporate this into the design of buildings.

Malmo is in the south west corner of Sweden. It is the nation's third largest city and is now the world's 4th greenest city claiming its green credentials on the basis of the exceptionally high level of low and zero carbon technologies, and associated renewable energy resources, that have been implemented in the city over the last half century.