David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

Month: June 2016

How I review papers

Once you publish a paper in a journal, you are expected to regularly review papers for that journal. It’s part of the normal scientific process. Some may consider it a chore, but I see it as an opportunity to keep in touch with my field and to help quality papers get published. When I was first […]

The DEBORAH project kick-off meeting

We are involved in DEBORAH, a Eurostars project nr E!10286,  led by EQUA Simulation AB, the vendor of the highly regarded IDA ICE building simulation software. Together with CSEM and Bengt Dahlgren AB, a Swedish consultancy firm specialised in buildings, the project’s stated objective is to optimise the design and operation of district thermal energy systems. We held the […]

Being blocked doesn’t mean you cannot work

If you’ve been on a Scrum team for some time, you will inevitably hear someone at the stand-up say: Today I cannot work on <some feature> because of <some reason>, but that’s all right. I’m not otherwise blocked because I can also work on <some unrelated thing>. There are two (very human) factors at play […]

Was “Building Science” really the best we could come up with?

The big problem with Building Science is that we call it Building Science. The academic study of buildings and their inhabitants is a young discipline; possibly even younger than Computer Science. The earliest articles in Building and Environment appear to date from 1966; Building Research & Information, from 1973. Like Computer Science, we have no single […]

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