SoPHE celebrates its second year behind bars

The event was attended by over 160 guests from throughout the industry who mingled with familiar and new faces at the unique reception in the Prison surrounded by real torture artefacts, then enjoyed drinks and a meal, a jazz band and sword fighters in an enchanting gothic room.

The president of CIBSE, Donald Leeper, was in attendance and gave an insightful address of support for all the efforts and developments that SoPHE had achieved in the past year.

Martin Shouler, SoPHE chairman, gave great appreciation to the pro-active committee and outlined that the Society had: an increase in membership of 50% across the grades over the past 12 months, including as far a field as Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand; completed a full technical programme including talks that branch out to national conferences and to the CIBSE regions; distributed a quarterly newsletter as a way of disseminating information and best practice; developed a public health degree in partnership with the IPHE and Greenwich University with the first students set to join in September 2006 and a SoPHE Award Scheme for students also in the pipeline; provided advice information and advice to policy makers including the Mayor of London Water Strategy, the revision of Building Regulations Part G (Water Conservation and Hygiene) and the House of Lords Enquiry on Water Management. He also highlighted that the North West region had celebrated its first anniversary recently thanks to the sterling efforts of Kate Longley; and that alongside all the Society’s activities was a very active Industrial Group which had blossomed to eleven members in the past year.

The event was generously sponsored by Hydrotec (UK) Ltd, Andrews Water Heaters, AO Smith, Climate Pipework Systems, Geberit, Honeywell, Douglas Controls and Saint-Gobain Pipelines. Over £120 was raised on the night for WaterAid, a charity which has a vision that everyone throughout the world will have access to safe water and effective sanitation.

To find out more about the Society of Public Health Engineers visit www.cibse.org/sophe