The Building and Industrial Services Pipework Academy (BISPA) is working with the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) to proactively tackle pipework and installation challenges in the UK building and industrial services market, by joining the prominent trade association as a Bronze Affiliate member. The BESA is the leading trade organisation for building engineering services contractors […]
The importance of pre-commission cleaning of pipework systems cannot be emphasised enough. Not only could this prevent your pipework system from experiencing early failure, but it can have a more immediate impact during the actual construction and hand-over phase. Incorrectly pre-commission cleaning can influence flow rates within the system, resulting in project specifications not being […]
BISPA is already working on developing a design platform in virtual reality (VR) for building services engineers. However, it is also important to develop tools for on-site use. This is where Augmented Reality (AR) becomes attractive. The idea is to superimpose high-resolution photorealistic information on top of the real world. This means anyone with an […]
Technology is evolving at a rapid pace. One of these technologies; Virtual Reality (VR) has seen considerable hype these past couple of years. It is anticipated that VR with blockchain will be the internet 2.0 and revolutionise how we work and communicate with each other. Whilst there is rapid development by the gaming industry in […]
In a recent conversation with a prominent building services consultancy about pipework systems, we discovered that all of their HVAC systems employ variable flow pumps. This can drastically reduce the energy demand of the system but the sizing and design calculations still follows the same process as a constant flow system. With this in mind […]
A team of 40 Hoare Lea staff visited BISPA labs on the 5th of July 2018. Numerous research themes such as experimental rigs, BIM and Virtual Reality (VR) was presented to the visitors. Most of the visitors were design engineers and consultants and thus it was an in depth technical tour. Numerous challenges that are […]