Aged just 19, BEA apprentice, Mikolaj Ogorek, has been named as the Engineer of the Year by the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE). Mikolaj was nominated by Whitecode Consulting for his outstanding performance in the last year,  with the firm calling the young apprentice "a superstar".

Mikolaj's work co-ordinating the building services across four sites for the London Borough of Hounslow infil sites programme, garnered praise for his "near faultless" mechanical designs and his efforts sourcing air source heat pump solutions and water heat recovery systems. Whitecode Consultancy also described how Mikolaj has been "holding his own in co-ordination meetings between the contractor and client, which at the age of 19 is just astonishing”. It certainly seems that Mikolaj has a bright future ahead of him in the building services engineering industry.

Whitecode took on Mikolaj as one of four apprentices they had hired from Wilmington Grammar School in 2021. As part of the appre

On Tuesday 21 January 2020, the winner of the Fan Makers Award, for the 2019-20 academic year was announced. The winner is Musab Mahmood, a first year apprenticeship student on the BEng Building Services Engineering course.

Musab was awarded a prize Bursary of £1,500. The School of BEA would like to congratulate Musab on his Award.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Every January, some of the best Institute of Acoustics (IOA) Diploma student final projects undertaken at the School of BEA, are presented by authors at the IOA London Branch meeting.

To add to that, a new IOA Diploma Student Final Project award competition was set up last year by course director Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina in collaboration with the IOA and the sponsor of the award, acoustics instrumentation manufacturer NTI-Audio.

At this year’s London Branch meeting held on 16 January 2020, two nominated finalists, of the first year of the competition, presented their work undertaken at LSBU in the last academic year (2018-19).

Paul Roberts presented his work on Sound Propagation From Lightwells and Jakub Hajko presented on Monitoring Aircraft Reduced Engine Taxi Using Sound Level Meters.

Charles Greene, General manager of NTI-Audio UK, presented the award and prize to the winner, Jakub Hajko.  

After the meeting and award ceremony we all went to the local pub to raise our glass

Dr Alex Paurine, one of the Acting Heads of Division for Civil and Building Services Engineering was recently informed by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) that his team had won the Happold Brilliant Award for 2018/19. The Award recognises excellence in the teaching of building services engineering.

The panel were impressed by the high quality of graduates produced by the university and felt that the project topics studied by the students cover a wide range of building services areas and include sustainability and renewable systems. They commented that LSBU has excellent links with the industry through the advisory panel as well as LSBU staff being involved in knowledge transfer partnership schemes. They also acknowledged that students are supported by experienced, helpful and dedicated staff throughout their course.

The award comes in the form of an engraved crystal chalice and will be presented at the CIBSE President’s Award Dinner on Friday 11 October

Dr. Mustafa Selçuk Çıdık, a senior lecturer in LSBU-BEA, has won one of the best paper awards in an international conference that was held in London between 19-21 June 2019. The conference was organised by Academy for Design, Innovation and Management. The paper, which is co-authored with Dr. V. Zerjav (UCL) and Ms. V. Papagiannopoulou (Faitful+Gould), explores what ‘managing as designing’ means for everyday practices of organisations based on the data collected by Ms. Papagiannopoulou during her master’s studies at UCL. Critical of the current hype about the step-wise methodologies of design thinking for management, the paper argues for a focus on everyday interactions and leadership for effectively ‘managing as designing’ in practice. You can access the full-paper by following the link below.

http://researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk/3250/1/ADIM2019-practice_of_managing_as_designing-final_submission.pdf