2019
March 2020: Cameron Foly. TBC
February 2020: Robyn Pender, Historic England. “Medieval thermal comfort”
January 2020: Dr Scott Steedman, Director of Standards, BSI. “standards in the industry”
December 2019: Michael Samadhin, Clarke Samadhin Associates. “district cooling in the UAE”
November 2019: Tom Barton, Executive Director of Get it Right Initiative. “Get it Right Initiative”
October 2019: Rudi Klein, CEO of SEC Group. “The Post Carillion Landscape: What needs to change to create a vibrant building services sector”
2018
March 2019: William Orchard. “Is Energy our optimal metric to tackle global warming?”
February 2019: Stephen Lisk, President of CIBSE. “Presidents Speech”
January 2019: Ant Wilson & Mary-Ann Clarke of AECOM. “The Times they are a Changing: His and Her Views.”
December 2018:
November 2018:
October 2018: Dr Stephen Dance, “Urbines”
2017
December 2017: Geoff Taylor “View from the Developer’s end of the telescope”
November 2017: David Frise “Performance Gap? Are we treating the symptoms, not the disease”
October 2017: Max Fordham “The Bigger Picture – A view of the future“
April 2017: Martin Liddament: “A debate on the original question posed by the Rumford Club” Read the blog
March 2017: Tony Howard, Head of Education and Training at BESA, on “In this time of austerity, will we still have a recognisable BSE sector or has the sector become fractionalised into traditional trades?” Read the blog
February 2017: Stephen Matthews: “The future of Professional Bodies in the age of austerity: A view from CIBSE” Read the blog
January 2017: Bridget Bartlett: “The future of Professional Bodies in the age of austerity: A view from the CIOB” Read the blog
2016
December 2016: Rudi Klein: “The future of Trade Associations in the age of austerity” Read the blog.
November 2016 – Dr Mike Hammond spoke on “Industry demand for manpower: an analysis of future manpower and skills availability”. Read the blog.
September 2016: Black Tie Dinner at the Caledonian Club. Lord Redesdale spoke as quizmaster. Read the blog.
March 2016 – Fiona Cousins (Arup) and Julia Evans (BSRIA) with Rod Bunn (BSRIA) as facilitator: “Should Integrated Performance Contracts be the norm in the UK by 2020?” Read the blog
February 2016 – David Arnold (Partner at Troup, Bywaters & Anders) and Stuart Thompson (Senior Design Manager at Morgan Sindall) with Ewen Rose as facilitator: “Will the performance of buildings be helped or hindered by the lack of practical skills in the next generation of design engineers?” Read the blog
January 2016 – Cat Hirst – UK Green Building Council with Alex Smith (CIBSE Journal) as facilitator: “What might the future look like in a world of advancing technology and finite resources?” Read the blog
2015
December 2015 – Benita Mehra – President of WES (Women in Engineering and Science) and Robin Nicholson (Senior Practice Partner, Cullinan Studio) with Rod Bunn (BSRIA) as facilitator: “The recent Edge Commission Report on the Future of Professionalism”. Read the blog
November 2015 – Prof Derek Clements-Croome (Professor of Architectural Engineering at the University of Reading and Les Copeland (Senior Technical Director at WSP/Parsons Brinkerhoff) with Ewen Rose as Facilitator: “What might cities of the Future look like – Biophilic or Smart?”
October 2015 – Neil Sturrock and Yaniv Peer provided keynotes presentations to seed the debate “Can new buildings be truly ground breaking or is innovation simply a copy of the past?”
March 2015 – Brian Moone on “Managing Client Expectations – A Main Contractors View Point” [Download Presentation]
February 2015 – George Adams “A Contractors View of Client Expectations – its all about relationships” [Download Presentation]
January 2015 – Gary Middlehurst on “Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Performance v Productivity Owner Occupier Expectations” [Download Presentation]
2014
December 2014 – Rod Bunn on “Health, wellbeing and productivity – Where next for building metrics?” [Download Presentation]
November 2014 – Derek Allen on “In-house versus outsource – the ascent of ‘data-centre kind'” [Download Presentation]
October 2014 – Anna Carolina Menezes on “Improving Predictions of Operational Energy Performance Of Buildings ” [Download Presentation]
March 2014 – Mark Hughes on F-Gas and a new generation of refrigerants
February 2014 – George Adams CIBSE president spoke on “Sustainable Cities” joined by the CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of the Year 2013 award winner William Holley of Buro Happold, and runners-up Kathryn Dryden of Atkins, and Emily Woodhouse of AECOM. who contributed to “Sustainable Cities”.
January 2014 – Panel debate chaired by Eszter Gulacsy ‘Are there front line issues our industry needs to address before we can fully take advantage of “next gen” tools like BIM?’
2013
December 2013 – Cathie Simpson “Thermography in Action” including hands-on experiments on the night!
November 2013 – Geoff Prudence on “Effective Maintenance Strategies, inspite of BIM, whims and other distractions”
October 2013 – Mark MacCraken on “Cooling systems for the SMART GRID” [Download Presentation]
September 2013 – Claire Malpas was Guest speaker on our Annual Partner’s Dinner.
March 2013 – Rear Admiral Nigel Guild on “Engineering the Warship: a system of systems”
February 2013 – CIBSE President, Professor David Fisk on “Knowing it All? Mega-information but Nano-Knowledge”
January 2013 – Angela Malynn (moderator), Lee Tabis, Chris Marien, Dinachi Onuzo, Georgina Donnelly in our Young engineers dinner presented on the topic “What does sustainability mean to our young engineers”
2012
December 2012 – Professor Sir Deian Rhys Hopkin on “Digital Dumbing Down – The ‘shallowing’ of knowledge and the trivialisation of communication”
November 2012 – Libby Jackson on “The Ultimate Zero Carbon Building? – The International Space Station”
October 2012 – Professor Li Shao on “Extreme weather, climate change and dwelling adaptation”
May 2012 – 65th Anniversary Dinner. Professor Frank James on “Brief early history of the Royal Institution”
April 2012 – ASHRAE President, Ron Jarnagin speaks at Rumford.
March 2012 – Ian Butler from Eurovent Certification Company on “Effective collaboration within the HVAC&R Industry through its associations”
February 2012 – CIBSE President, Andy Ford.
January 2012 – Rob Manning from AECOM on “What future for design, constuction & operation?”
2011
December 2011 – Tim Dwyer from UCL on “BIM Bam or Flim flam – Time to take the lead in Building Information Modelling”
November 2011 – Hywel Davies “Innovation- in a squeeze!” [Download presentation] and some notes to accompany the presentation
October 2011 – Keith Marshall from Summit Skills on “Can Employers Collaborate to Achieve a Genuinely Employer-led Skills System?”
July 2011 – Lord O’Neill of Clackmanan was Guest speaker on our Annual Dinner
April 2011 – George Adams on “A Contractor’s model of good relations”
March 2011 – Nick Till on “Commissioning – reality?? – How commissioning is/is not happening and why”
February 2011 – CIBSE President, Rob Manning.
January 2011 – Robert Higgs asks “One Year on – is the Chief Construction Adviser cutting the mustard?” [Download presentation]
2010
December 2010 – Rod Bunn on “Soft Landings Down Under” [Download presentation]
November 2010 – Graham Manly on “Who’d be a contractor” [Download presentation]
March 2010 – 400th Dinner – Prof Frank James on “Count Rumford” and John Barnes on “Rumford Club History” [Download presentation]
February 2010 – CIBSE President, Mike Simpson – “Meeting the challenge…. The lighting way”
January 2010 – debate entitled “Are zero carbon buildings achievable?” Speakers, Ashley Bateson & Jules Saunderson
2009
December 2009 – debate entitled “This house believes that Feed-in-Tariffs provide a rapid solution to achieving the UK’s carbon reduction targets” Speakers, Paul Lewis & Brian Marks [Download Paul’s presentation] [Download Brian’s presentation]
November 2009 – debate entitled “Are we developing the right skills/expertise for the Future?” Speakers, Mike Hammond & Martin Ratcliffe [Download Martin’s presentation]
October 2009 – John Field on “Are energy costs leading to better buildings?” [Download John Field’s presentation]
May 2009 – Annual Dinner at the House of Commons – Colin Challon MP
March 2009 – Prof George Jeromides on “Lessons from Nature for Building Design”
February 2009 – CIBSE President, Prof John Swaffield on “Future Visions for CIBSE”
January 2009 – Prof Martin Davis on “After rethinking Construction for ten years, will you accept this challenge – its time for us to take concerted action to do it entirely differently”
2008
December 2008 – Patrick Bellew on “Engineering Sustainable Architecture”
November 2008 – Richard Saxon CBE on “Integration: thoughts on the forces creating convergence in the roles and working methods of the construction professions”
October 2008 – Prof David Fisk on “Are you sure that climate change is the biggest threat to Mankind?”
June 2008 – Annual Dinner at House of Commons – Colin Challon MP
April 2008 – Three speakers on hot topics – William Orchard, Robert Higgs & Ellen Salazar
March 2008 – Prof Tony Day on “London Energy Policy”
February 2008 – Tony Reid on “Engineering Management”
January 2008 – CIBSE President, John Armstrong
2007
December 2007 – debate entitled “The UK Building Services Industry has failed to rise to the challenge of reducing carbon emissions from buildings” Speakers Richard John & Dave Hampton.
November 2007 – Simon Pott on “History of RICS Awards”
October 2007 – 60th Anniversary Dinner at House of Lords – Baroness Maddock
March 2007 – Ken Logan on “Refrigerants – the future”
February 2007 – CIBSE President, David Hughes
January 2007 – Roger Moncur on “Intelligent Business Management”#
2006
December 2006 – Dr John Morton on “The Engineering and Technology Board”
November 2006 – Robin Farley on “Humidity why bother?”
October 2006 – Dr Gary Felgate on “The Carbon Trust”
March 2006 – Rumford Club Patron, Baroness Maddock
February 2006 – Richard Mayson on “Understanding the F word”
January 2006 – CIBSE President, Don Leeper OBE
2005
December 2005 – Prof John Iredale on “And now for something different”
November 2005 – Richard Chitty on “Fire modelling with CFD”
October 2005 – Andrew Giles on “The China Syndrome”
May 2005 – Annual Dinner at House of Commons – Baroness Maddock
March 2005 – Bill Cory on “Fan Technology”
February 2005 – Rick Edmundson on “Railways past and present”
January 2005 – CIBSE President, Graham Manly
2004
December 2004 – Robert Higgs OBE on “HVCA Centenary”
November 2004 – John McFarland on “Technology in Sport”
October 2004 – Ant Wilson on “Part L 2005 proposals on Energy”