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The paper written by Shaomin Wu and Derek Clements-Croome has been ranked as the 9th hottest paper in the journal Reliability Engineering and System Safety.

Preventive maintenance models with random maintenance quality
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Volume 90, Issue 1, 1 October 2005, Pages 99-105
Wu, S.; Clements-Croome, D. J.,

New Scholarships available for MSc Intelligent Buildings Applicants for who will start in October 2006.

Closing date for applications is 16 June 2006

We are delighted to announce that we have 5 scholarships available for both home and international students each of them are £2000.
Applicants need to register as a full-time students and they need to be under age of 30. Overseas applicants need to have gained IELTS 6.5 English before the deadline. You will need to enclose 300 word statement with your application detailing how you feel you would benefit from a scholarship.Please note that this scholarship is exclusive to MSC Intelligent Buildings Students.
Scholarship leaflet in MS Word

Masters Students Scholarship

Closing date for applications is 31 May 2006

There is another studentship available for international students from China, Ghana, India, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand. 6 £5000 and 10 £2000 scholarships will be available for October 2006 entry but these will be available to all taught Masters students across the University.
Scholarship leaflet in MS Word

Intelligent Buildings China delegation has visited us on 2nd December.

The visit was organised by Intelligent Buildings Group (IBG).
Visitors were from China Ministry of Construction Committee of Science and Technology
Intelligent Building Committee of China Construction Industry Association
Intelligent Construction Development Centre of MOC
Beijing Industry University, Shanghai University, Fuzhou University
Nanjing University of Construction – City Construction Academy
China Construction Science Institute
China Air-conditioning Academy
Beijing Zhong Xin Guo An Science and Technology Institute and
Beijing Mechanical and Industrial Automation Institute

Visit was very successful and both parties expressed their interest to establish future collaboration for both teaching and research.

Visit by Taiwan National Science Committee

Following Prof Clements-Croome appointment as a member of Taiwan Government Science and Technology Advisory Board and his visit to Taipei last summer, we recently received courtesy visit from Taiwan National Science Committee.

Committee members were from National Taiwan University, National Chiao-Tung University, National Taiwan Technology University, Chinese Culture University National Taipei University of Technology, National Cheng Kung University, Civil Engineering Discipline National Science Council, National Dept of Education and Science and Technology Division Taipei Representative Office in the UK

BSI Conference on Intelligent Buildings

The British Standards Institution (BSI) with support from IBG, held a one day conference on 30th November at BSI's West London Headquarters.

With speakers coming from all parts of the world, this promises to be the "must not miss" event of the year, providing linkage with the IBG's Batimat event in Paris, scheduled for the beginning of November. For those professionals with an interest in the diversity of Intelligent Buildings, this event provided important material, along with peer group networking and collaboration opportunities for all those that attend.

We are now accredited CPD providers for Chartered Institute of Buildings Services Engineers (CIBSE)

Agreement with Temasek Polytechnic finalised

We have now signed a formal agreement with Temasek Polytechnic Singapore. Temasek offers Intelligent Buildings Technologies diploma and now of their graduate will be able to join out masters programme. The agreement was initiated by Prof Derek Clements-Croome and signed by our Pro Vice Chancellor Prof David Rice and Mrs XXXXX Director of Temasek Engineering School.

Four students have already joined us and we are expecting more students following years.

Students from Temasek Polytechnic attended IB2005 conference at Watford. They are shown with Jane Bell, industrial coordinator of Facilities Management Module,

Vic Fairey is retiring

Vic has has been involving in research representing Dytecna with since 1992 and he has been leading Finance Module since 1997.

Vic has retired from Dytecna after retiring from the Army.

The module will be lead by Maurice Beard from College of Estate Management who have started teaching last year.

New Term
New term started with the first module of the programme on the 24th of October. Andrew Thomson of Cisco Systems kindly given us a lecture as well tour to plant room and facilities.

After Ciso Systems delegates found the opportunity to visit BedZed in Beddington. Wendy Lee has given a tour around the development and this was followed by discussion with Bill Dunster.

ib2005 BRE Watford 19, 20 October 2005

Intelligent buildings are now well established as a reality within the property industry, and are now proving their value as investment assets. Yet many feel that the potential of intelligent buildings is still not being realised. ib2005 was the two-day conference and networking event for key strategic decision makers in the intelligent buildings industry. ib2005 built on the success of Intelligent Buildings 2004, which established itself as the major forum for senior strategic executives, designers, managers and suppliers wishing to develop their knowledge and contacts within the intelligent buildings industry. Further information www.ib2005.net

CIBSE annual general meeting and presidential address by Incoming President Donald Leeper,
5 May 2005 Burlington House, London

CIBSE medals were presented to John Bettison, Derek Clements-Croome and Ted King for services of the institution and bronze medal was presented to Frank Ferris for his services to the CIBSE Heritage Group. Prof Deian Hopkin, vice chancellor and chief executive of London Sout Bank University was the guest speaker.