IHEEM has appointed Richard Knight CEng MIHEEM (pictured) as the chair of its Ventilation Technical Platform (VTP). The Ventilation Technical Platform (VTP) is the IHEEM focus area for technology matters relating to this subject.
Within its remit it will ‘provide information and guidance for members and advise on matters of special interest as they arise’, and be asked to provide comment on HTMs, HBNs, and CFPPs, and other guidance from the Department of Health and Devolved Authorities. The Platform will also ‘promote and support technical papers, which can be printed in HEJ’. A member of IHEEM, a Chartered Engineer, and a corporate member of CIBSE, Richard Knight has a technical building services/capital project management background, with over 30 years’ experience in healthcare. Alongside his role as client manager at estates and facilities business consultancy, CPA Solutions, he is a leading member of the company’s Informed Client estates advisory team, advising on estates, managerial, and technical matters on issues ranging from engineering strategy to Legionella, and from ventilation to emergency planning. He has also developed, and teaches, ventilation and electrical AP courses at Eastwood Park. A founder committee member, and current chairman, of the CIBSE Healthcare Group, he has contributed to standards and guidance including CIBSE Guide H, MEIGaN, HTM 03, and draft ASHRAE and European guidance on healthcare ventilation systems.
