Three more specialists join the Hodkinson team
Posted on September 13th 2017
We are delighted to welcome three new people to our team, Igor Esteves, Angeliki Antoniou and Eleanor Ballinger. Igor joins our District Energy team as a Senior Specialist with experience gained at a major utility company. This strengthens our district energy capabilities in response to the growing demand for strategic energy solutions particularly on major regeneration projects particularly in the …
Draft London Environment Strategy Supports Enhanced Role for District Heating
Posted on August 15th 2017
The Mayor of London’s Draft Environment Strategy was published last week. This sets out an ambitious programme to make London a Zero Carbon city by 2050, and provides a focus on policy areas for the Mayor to address in the upcoming London Plan due to be published later this year. Here we examine the proposals with specific regard to district …
Getting External Lighting Right
Posted on August 15th 2017
Good external lighting design can significantly uplift the visual environment of any scheme. However, wider considerations of light pollution, energy efficiency, safety and security need to be appropriately considered. Addressing the issue at planning stage not only supports planning applications but also promotes a fit-for-purpose and cost effective basis for the detailed design. Light pollution was introduced to the National …
Hodkinson Consultancy Get Active for Charity
Posted on August 15th 2017
Employees from Hodkinson Consultancy took part in various cycling events in London last month. Charlotte Booth challenged herself to complete the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 mile cycle, a road race starting in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, into Surrey taking in the challenging climbs of Box Hill and Leith Hill, and racing back to the finish line on The Mall. Charlotte raised …
BREEAM Communities Success in Eastleigh
Posted on August 15th 2017
We are delighted to announce that we have recently achieved BREEAM Communities ‘Excellent’ certification for Bloor Homes at Crowdhill Green in Eastleigh Borough Council, Hampshire. Crowdhill Green is a new, sustainable development of 330 new homes in Fair Oak, of which Bloor Homes are providing 226. Following the achievement of outline planning consent and BREEAM Interim Certification in 2014, we worked …
Success in the JLL Property Triathlon
Posted on July 12th 2017
A huge well done to the Hodkinson Triathlon relay team who took part in the JLL Property race on Friday 30th June 2017. Charlotte Booth (swim), Matt Bailey (cycle) and our newest recruit Chris Forster (run) finished in the Mixed Relay Sprint race in 36th place (of 272) in a time of 1hr 16 minutes. The event, which is firmly …
New Acoustic Guidance for Planning Published
Posted on July 7th 2017
The Professional Practice Guidance on Planning and Noise (ProPG) was published by the Association of Noise Consultants (ANC), the Institute of Acoustics (IoA) and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) in 2017. It defines a good acoustic design process which, if followed, will provide certainty and confidence to everybody involved in the planning, design and consenting of new residential …
Architectural Association Roundtable
Posted on July 7th 2017
In May 2017, one of our Senior Specialists, Olga Tsagkalidou, presented at the Architectural Association’s Sustainable Environmental Design Roundtable along with other leading international London firms – Foster + Partners, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Architype and HENN Berlin. The aim of the Roundtable was to share with pioneering academics the Practice, Research & Prospects for sustainable contemporary building design and …
New CIBSE TM59 (2017) Overheating Guidance
Posted on July 7th 2017
The recently published CIBSE TM59 (2017): Methodology for the assessment of overheating in homes guidance has a focus on naturally ventilated (free running) dwellings and provides a standardised approach for the assessment and reporting of residential overheating as a growing concern within the development industry. This new guidance clarifies the previous guidance issued in CIBSE TM52. CIBSE TM59 (2017) is …
CFD Modelling – A Holistic Approach to Corridor Overheating
Posted on June 20th 2017
Communal residential corridor spaces are particularly prone to the risk of overheating. The main contributor is heat gains incurred from community heating pipework that runs through the ceiling void. Computational Fluid Dynamic Modelling (CFD Modelling) enables the assessment of complex ventilation systems by mapping the airflow, temperature and air pressure distribution within the space, thus: indicating the project specific ventilation …