About Richardtanner

How can tomorrow's challenges be met by today's buildings?
Identify a significant future challenge.
Integration of power management across industry, infrastructure and homes. the ability to be able to use solar to power your home with batteries and the grid but be able to give and take electricity when and where it is needed.
A house should be able to generate electricity during the day from solar tiles/panels and store energy for use at night but it should also be able to use energy from your electric car or batteries if you don't require it the next day e.g. on holiday or not going to work in the car; the system would then be able to buy back cheaper energy at night. Your appliances should then work within these systems switching on and off to support electricity demands automatically with your home power use and the wider electricity.
Offer a design solution for how that challenge could be tackled in today's buildings.
To be able to do this a Systems Engineering approach to the building of houses need to be considered to include solar panels and batteries or have provision for them so home owners/ industry can upgrade when it becomes economically viable to do so. To have the whole system working the grid, appliance manufactures, HVAC manufactures, solar system manufactures, house builders, the government, car manufactures, calendar integration and industry need to come together to build a system that can respond in a timely manner and is easy for people to use and be part of and upgradable as new technology becomes available.
Featured articles and news
Myths and top tips.
CLC plans to ease impact of construction inflation.
BG 50 & VDI 2035 – your questions answered.
Types of domestic heating systems.
Will the way we heat homes change when winter comes ?
Extended reality in a post-pandemic world.
Can XR technology be leveraged in design & construction?
Or are you capping.
STEM ambassadors needed for ICE CityZen award.
Digital gaming competition for UK students aged 16 to 18.
Heritage protection in England vs Australia.
Fire doors and the Fire Door Inspection Scheme.
Three-quarters of fire doors fail inspections
UN International Day for Biological Diversity, May 22.
The role of geoparks, biospheres and world heritage sites.
BSRIA conference 2022, June 23.
Just one month to go ! Find out more here.
Restoring Broadbent’s Bath House
A new gallery for the University of Huddersfield.
Corruption in the construction industry.
What will it take to stop it ?
To celebrate world bee day 2022 !
Just one month until the changes to part L come into effect.
Not forgetting part F and the new part overheating part O.
Heat Pump demand rises by one quarter.
As energy prices jump up in cost.
With people in the UK from Ukraine.
Industry leader Steve Murray takes on role.
An abundant and versatile building material.
How overheating complicates ending gas in the UK.
600,000 heat pump installations targeted per year by 2028.
Cost planning, control and related articles on DB.
Helping prevent those unwanted outcomes.