Join the EI East Midlands branch for a talk on the hydrogen economy. The speaker believes that there are good prospects for hydrogen, but that there is unlikely to be the all-encompassing 'hydrogen economy'. This view is based on his experience of British Gas in the 1950s and 60s. In the late 1950s, the British Gas industry was dying. It was based on town gas, a mixture that contained 50% hydrogen. In the important domestic energy sector, electricity was becoming more competitive. The gas industry was saved by moving away from coal, and using steam reforming processes which produced town gas at high pressure from naphtha, essentially a low grade petrol. When North Sea gas came in, every burner in Britain had to be changed. The cost was then about £500 million, but this was hidden from consumers. Can this, will this, happen again?

We are honoured to have the new global president of ASHRAE Darryl K Boyce visit us to deliver his inaugural presidential speech here in the UK Midlands. Darryl will be joined by one of the most interesting, and perhaps least considered aspects of building services design - cyber security. Michael Wigington of J Dunton Associates will discuss how we prevent our controls systems from becoming a back door cyber infection path to client organisations.

Ashrae UK Midlands Chapter are proud to host our Student Competition and Conference. As well as our usual high quality student papers and awards ceremony we will also have two eminent speakers, Adam Taylor from WellAir and Martin Ronceray from BSRIA to present on Indoor Air Quality and Soft Landings respectively. See below and click the attachments for more details.

ASHRAE UK Chapters of London and South East and UK Midlands are pleased to hold our first joint event on the important topic of Indoor Air Quality. Joining us tonight for what should be a compelling evening are Distinguished Lecturer Chandra Sekhar from Singapore University, and Edward Murphy from Ollio. Chandra will be start on the topic of enhanced ventilation strategies for optimal indoor IAQ to be followed by Edward who will reprise his paper delivered to CIBSE Technical Symposium on IAQ sensors and the wellbeing agenda.

Ashrae Distinguished Lecturer Tim Wentz will join us again in the UK Midlands to deliver his lecture on the Impact of Occupant Behaviour on Future Building Performance. Tim's Lecture will feature on Day 1 of what will be a three day workshop on the same topic.