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I live with my wife, who i met in school, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. We are both very outgoing people enjoying various outdoor pursuits and sports. During a normal week I coach and play rugby for my local first team, of which I am club captain, and can regularly be found at the Amersham climbing wall. Whenever we get a chance we zip down to Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, where we spend the majority of the time on the great beaches down there with our Springer Spaniel. I own power kites, mountain boards, surfboards and climbing equipment which i like to make use of at every opportunity.

I work within the building services industry, as an electrical engineer. Basically, I work along side Architects and structural engineers to ensure the building proposed is safe and suits the need of people using it. I took for granted the amount of work which goes into a building. The classrooms you are in for example;

It has to have a certain amount of air supply within it to keep you all breathing. Not only that but it controls how fresh the air is, it would soon get pretty hard to stay in the room if everyone had bad breath and there was not a suitable cycle of air to rid the “pollutants”.
There is also heating, to keep you warm and comfortable, hopefully and believe it or not, the stability of the structure
The lighting in your room is designed to suit what you are doing.  The colour or temperature will alter your mood/level of alertness by affecting your circadian rhythm.

A day may start with attending a meeting, either at site or the architects office. We will discuss the requirements of the proposed building and how best to move forward with the project before construction stage. I will then go back to the office and develop the designs using drawings and calculations to meet the legal requirements and local standards required to meet a functional building. I may then attend another projects site to ensure the installation works are as i proposed and progressing to meet deadlines.