Welcoming Our New Public Health Specialist – Geoff Kent

28 April 2020

Geoff joined QODA in March this year and brings with him more than 40 years’ experience in the Public Health sector of the construction industry. He has not only worked nationally in the UK but also abroad and extensively in the Middle East. With particular areas of knowledge and expertise in sewerage, above and below ground drainage, domestic water systems and wet infrastructure design, Geoff has provided Public Health designs from concept to completion across a variety of sectors and for Infrastructure and master planning projects. By offering enhanced Public Health engineerin...

Building Services Leading the Way for Female Graduates

9 March 2020

For International Women’s Day QODA spoke to some of our female graduate engineers about their experiences in education and working in the building services industry. Our graduates have found that that building services offers a great career for women. We may finally be at a turning point where the industry becomes a leader amongst STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) jobs for progressing female careers. Our current graduate engineers didn’t know they wanted to work in the building services sector at school as the traditional subjects they studied were not focussed...

QODA’s Part L Consultation Response

7 January 2020

“In the construction industry, we need to move faster, really making the next 10 years count, as we transition to a low and then zero carbon economy. The UK Building Regulations are a key driver for this step-change.” - Dr Joel Callow, Technical Director at QODA and certified Passivhaus Designer.   The article below has been written by Lindsey Arnott, on behalf of QODA and is in keeping with LETI's statement which holds a wealth of knowledge. Lindsey is a sustainability engineer in our Oxford office and the Part L champion at QODA. The article outlines the key poin...

Future Homes Part L Consultation

13 December 2019

Building Regulations Part L is probably the single most important UK regulation affecting the energy consumption of buildings. The Government intends to update it in 2020 and has set out a comprehensive consultation paper outlining several ways they may implement changes. Given the urgency of tackling climate change through reduced CO2 emissions, the update of Part L in 2020 is timely, albeit currently only applying to domestic buildings under the ‘L1a’ document. Unfortunately, there is widespread concern in the industry that the intended changes may have little to no effect on b...