The sash windows suck. I don't think the victorians were doing any Computational Fluid Dynamics to design those c**ppy windows. Roasting in Wilson house has never been so much fun before.

ahh but wilson house is roasting all year round whether your radiators on or not, come sun or snow!! (especially basement, lived in shorts all last year))

Wait till you have to clean the outside of the sash windows... There is always that annoying top of the bottom bit to do. What is the new BMS building like in the summer, is it as energy efficient as during the winter?

Yeah, its a beach party in WH all year round, actually the basement is a lot cooler here now.

I had wilson in the first year. What a hole that place is. Do you still get woken up by the fighting pimps? The mice, rats etc?

Glad I'm not there in this weather. On the other hand, I'm now living in a bedroom paritioned off from a living room in full violation of fire regulations etc, which is even smaller and noisier than the one I had in wilson... and with no ventilation of any kind, so actually a window, even a sash one, would actually be considered a luxury. Yes a luxury! You don't know your born etc. etc.

The BMS is usually roasting in summer - you can't expect what is essentially a greenhouse to not heat up in this weather. The new glass buildings are responsible for the college brownouts - the airconditioning required to keep them at a comfortable level, and the fumehood extraction systems have eaten up any spare capacity College has from its own generators, and then some.

And in the winter the new college building need loads of heating. Oh well

What the college needs are lush rooftop gardens (ala hanging gardens of Babylon) with overhanging flora and a bit of fauna. The plain and boring Queens lawn and the tower(which is rarely opened) should be bulldozed and a beautiful scenic pond with exotic ducks, paddle boats and dancing fountains should be put in its place.

Also need a mini-nuclear reactor to power an unlimited number of air-conditioners.

We have the brainy engineers all we need are the resources. Shouldnt be much of a problem given that we have a new enthusiastic resourceful president ready to campaign for the students and bless us with amongst other things a starbucks style cafe here there and everywhere.

Or maybbe a cooling state-of-the-art water feature running throughout the whole SthKen campus (with fishes for good luck) that should brighten up the dreary looking buildings and contribute to a better looking britain.

Yeah, the BMS building is the most energy inefficient that we have at SthKen. It provides 7% of SthKen floorspace, but demands 25% of the College electricity supply [source: IC energy manager]. The Tanaka building is expected to be equally inefficient.

This is what you get when you get 'prestigious' architects to 'think' about a 'modern' design. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of working in the be-sashed RSM building will know how much nicer it is in summer. Its running costs are also significantly lower.

Here's the big joke though: Our CHP plant chucks out ~4MW waste heat in the summer, a small fraction of which is used to heat water. We were meant to be getting 'absorption coolers' (think gas fridge), but as yet the money has not been found to purchase them, though the piping has been installed. So the ultimate solution to the problem?

install more electric air con OBVIOUSLY.

Bring on the thunderstorms, close half our nuclear capacity for maintenance, and wait for the American experience!