IEN was honoured to be invited to give the above talk at yesterday's conference "Innovative Cooling Solutions for High-Performance, Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Data Centres". Glad to receive lots of interest and positive feedback on the presentation. The presentation also touches on highly reflective roof systems that can reject heat to the sky at night as well as during the day.

Always a pleasure to teach the highly engaged students of the Integrated Sustainable Design (ISD) master of science degree program. This year saw 50 enrolled students from across Asia mostly with an architecture degree background. What several of the students really liked about the lectures was frequent use of completed tropical building case studies from IEN's own portfolio. And telling the students about many of the valuable lessons learned along the way. See list in this article.

This newly formed association for young tropical engineers was co-founded by our former intern, Bryan Ellama, from the Reunion Island and Indian Ocean Engineering School (ESIROI). And as such, it was without hesitation that we accepted the invitation to give a talk entitled "High Performance Buildings in the Tropics". Always a pleasure to inspire new new generations of tropical sustainable building engineers. The slides are made available for download.