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INDUSTRY news THE HEAT IS ON FOR GREEN HOME GRANTS Using a high-tech thermal imaging camera to measure heat loss from roofs, Bluesky International is helping to identify poorly insulated homes and other public buildings. The property level heat loss maps provide an accurate and up-to-date picture that could be used to pinpoint homes eligible for financial support such as the UK Government’s Green Homes Grants. The Chancellor recently announced a package of grants worth a total £2 billion for energy-efficient home improvements, including installing insulation, double glazing and replacing old boilers. The remaining £1 billion will be spent making public buildings including schools and hospitals more environmentally friendly, with £50 million going towards retrofitting social housing with insulation, double glazing and heat pumps. "The government announcement of support for homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their homes as part of a wider green jobs package brings thermal surveys to the forefront," commented Rachel Tidmarsh, MD of Bluesky International. "The intelligence we can derive from a thermal image can help target this money highlighting at a glance properties that would benefit from additional insulation and double glazing." www.bluesky-world.com ACTIVE HEARING PROTECTION MANDATE Galliford Try's Highways business has implemented a new mandate requiring all of its sites to adopt Active Hearing Protection from July. The measure will become part of the business's standard PPE requirements to try and clamp down on noise induced hearing loss (NIHL), which is the most commonly reported occupational disease in Europe. Highways has adopted smart tech company Eave's Active Ear Defenders, which use a best-inclass 'hear through' technology. Unlike standard passive ear defenders, the Eave solution allows the wearer to continue to hear environmental sound, vastly improving the safety of workers. The unique highways work setting makes it more imperative for operatives to be constantly aware of ambient noise, while also protecting themselves. The smart headsets also monitor and map noise exposure, displaying it via a cloudbased software platform, allowing the business to analyse in real time each worker's noise exposure across a site. www.eave.io £2BN GREEN ENERGY BLACKOUT BILL FOR UK The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has published a collection of papers by energy expert Dr John Constable, documenting the rapid decay of the UK electricity system, with system balancing costs spiralling out of control in june. The cost of balancing the grid over the last Bank Holiday weekend amounted to £50m, and National Grid has predicted additional costs of £700m from May to August alone. It has taken desperate measures in an attempt to reduce the bill, but according to expert observers, these may well prove futile. GB system balancing costs have been rising sharply over recent decades, as inflexible 3D Repo are working on a solution that will significantly improve remote working in the AEC industry by replacing screen sharing with distant 3D navigationand could see ~million-times reduction in internet bandwidth and latency demands.The innovative idea comes after the recent lockdown uncovered new problems for remote working and BIM coordination. Work on the project started in June after recently winning funding from Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency, in a competition which aims to fasttrack the development of innovations borne out of the coronavirus crisis whilst supporting cutting-edge UK start-ups. The competition is also part of a larger £40 million government investment to drive forward new technological advances. Choppy audio and video while teleconferencing during lockdown has agitated many professionals working from home renewables have taken a leading role in electricity supply, driven by £10 billion a year of subsidies and price-fixing arrangements. In 2002 system balancing cost £367m, but by 2019 it had risen to just under £1.5bn, a level that was expected to be sustained this year. However, because wind and solar can’t respond to the low demand caused by lockdown, National Grid now expects the total to be about £2bn, and even that figure is based on the assumption that costs return to normal after August. If the lockdown runs on into the autumn, the cost could easily rise by hundreds of millions more. https://bit.ly/2Zmbi7K DISTANT 3D NAVIGATION FOR AEC WORKERS during the pandemic. Adding 3D rendering into the mix makes screen sharing in AEC virtually impossible. Head of Construction at Innovate UK, Simon Hart, said: "3D Repo has quickly responded to new implications brought to light by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their innovative solution has the capacity to significantly improve the remote working experience for AEC professionals while at the same time speeding up the internet for everyone else." The solution will rely on remote 3D rendering and navigation sharing. Each user will be able to instantly become a presenter in 3D space with avatars denoting, in real-time, who is working on what at any given location. Instead of screen sharing, a domain-specific remote rendering solution based on the 3D Repo Digital Construction Platform in the cloud will be used, with navigation updates exchanged in real-time. https://3drepo.com 8 July/August 2020
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