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A Career as an Electrical Engineer

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  As part of our  Career in Building Services  series, today we meet  Konstantinos  who works as an Electrical Engineer. If you have any questions about this career path, you can contact us at yepg@cibse.org . Konstantinos Charalampidis  studied Electrical & Computer  Engineering at the Aristotle  University and Environmental  Design & Engineering at  University College London.  He works as an Electrical  Engineer in Arup and has  designed sustainable buildings in  Europe, Asia, and America.  Konstantinos was a Steering  Committee Member of the CIBSE  YEPG for 4 years prior to joining  the CIBSE EPG in 2020. As a Steering Committee  member, Konstantinos was  responsible for various events  around energy performance in  the built environment,  supporting CIBSE members in  their continuing professional  development. What do Electrical Engineers do? Electrical Engineers typically work in multidisciplinary teams to design the  electrical infrastructure of a building.  This might ra

A Career as a Public Health Engineer

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  As part of our  Career in Building Services  series, today we meet  Ben  who is a Public Health Engineer. If you have any questions about this career path, please contact SoPHE YEN at   sophe.yen@gmail.com  or you can find your local YEN group at www.cibse.org/yen . Ben Goodfellow is a Public Health Engineer at WSP and the Chair of SoPHE YEN (Society of Public Health Engineers - Young Engineers Network). He studied Mechanical Engineering at University and has been in the field of Public Health Engineering for around 6 years working on many prestigious projects both in London and places further afield, including the Middle East. He is passionate about the built environment and its effects on community and wellbeing as well as promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) subjects and topics. What is Public Health Engineering? At its most basic level, Public Health Engineering is a discipline within the building services that focuses on the design of the systems that ena