Blogs from BESA

12 January 2026

Ventilation Hygiene Standards And The TR 19® ...

What Is TR 19® And Why Does It Matter The guide serves facilities managers, HVAC contractors, compliance officers and others responsible for ...

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16 December 2025

What Is A Fire Damper And Its Role In HVAC ...

Contents Fire Damper Definition And Purpose How Fire Dampers Work In HVAC Systems Fire Damper Types: FD vs MFD vs SCD Fire Damper Activation Methods ...

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2 December 2025

How TR 19® Supports Better Indoor Air ...

Indoor Air Quality And Ventilation Hygiene Indoor air quality, once viewed as a comfort issue, is now recognised as a critical factor in public ...

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19 December 2023

What kind of future?

What motivates young engineers? Money? Great projects? Better career prospects? People might be surprised because, while those things are nice to ...

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5 September 2023

What are the main barriers to ...

Decarbonisation is currently on everybody’s radar, with new solutions hitting the market thick and fast. “In previous years, the industry has waited ...

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31 July 2023

Is Gove’s support for retrofit ‘pathetic’?

Two thirds of the whole life carbon of a building is embodied. The first third is in the creation of the building and the second in the replacement ...

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14 June 2023

What gets an engineer out of bed in the ...

The supermodel Linda Evangelista famously said she wouldn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. Great work if you can get it, writes BESA ...

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22 June 2022

How I Am Making Real Impact On Carbon Saving

It seems strange to admit it now, but I actually had no idea about building services until I ended up IN building services.

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2 February 2021

David Frise | The Government Means Business ...

If anyone did have any lingering doubts about the government’s determination to reform the construction industry and its supporting specialist ...

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