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Fiona Cousins joins the #CIBSE125Challenges by sharing her building services icon

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Following the launch of the #CIBSE125Challenges , Fiona Cousins PE FCIBSE, LEED Fellow, Arup Fellow and Arup Americas Chair was keen to support this initiative. In response to the challenges, Fiona said: "The CIBSE 125 Challenges provide an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the people and technologies that have had an impact on our lives as engineers. Most of us have someone or something that inspired us and made us love building services and this is a great opportunity to celebrate them." Considering her career to date, Fiona celebrates her building services icon, Mike Holmes. “I worked with Mike Holmes when I first started at Arup and that first year laid the foundations for my career. At that time, Mike was working in the R&D part of Arup, developing a suite of programs for the analysis of buildings. I was assigned to work with him as a programmer, bug-tester and the chauffeur driver of the more complex analyses required by the design groups. It was cutting edge w