Steve has been out with his camera over these last few weeks and has put together quite an array of exciting new interior shots, as you can see below. These interior shots can also be viewed under 'SunPipe Domestic' Diamond section; our Square SunPipe and our Conservation section.

For two months now, we have topped £1 million per month in Invoice sales and this underlines the tremendous success of the company in all aspects. Our outflow of proposals for new Projects is also at a record high, as indeed is our Order Book! This is thanks to everyone in the company and not forgetting the contribution made by our 30 main Distributors and outlying Sales Offices.

Since purchasing the Smart Roadster car last year, purely for fun for the staff, we learn now that they have stopped making the Roadster, so this car will soon become a collector's item! Each member of the staff has the Smart car for one week and their names are drawn out of a lucky dip each week! It is certainly an amazing little car. It is a great shame that they have decided to stop making it. Everyone thoroughly enjoys it, so we will all just have to make sure that we make it last!

Funding has now been agreed for a joint research programme. Monodraught and Brunel University are to monitor 'user feedback' on indoor air quality. The research will take place over a 2-year period as an EngD Project and Brunel and Monodraught are currently looking for a suitable candidate that will start at the end of September. The work will involve monitoring a number of Projects where Monodraught SunPipe and Windcatcher systems have been installed and comparing those to similar buildings that do not have the benefit of SunPipes and Windcatchers. Proposals are already being put forward for monitoring at Addey & Stanhope School and also Lloyds TSB branches and we are actively now seeking further proposals.

Wedding Bells at Monodraught

	Wedding bells rang for two of our staff in these last two weeks. Nick Hopper, our Head of Design and IT Manager, who married his childhood sweetheart at Hambleden Church last Saturday. The photo shows Nick and Shelley after 8 hours' celebrating at their reception at Bix Manor. Luigi, our Contracts Manager, also married his childhood sweetheart (both of them have been going out for 10 years or more) and they also had an equally impressive wedding ceremony at Great Hampden Church and the reception was held in Hampden House which is the ancestral home of the Hobart-Hampden family, the most famous of whom was the English Civil War hero John Hampden. We all send our very heartiest congratulations and best wishes to both couples and were welcomed back to our very busy office!

The largest Monodraught system we have ever made is 3.5m in diameter and the photo shows the system ready to leave our Works in Somerset destined for the Royal Caledonian University in Glasgow . This giant Monodraught system had to have a special police escort for the whole journey from Somerset to Glasgow and it took three days for the complete journey and our vehicle was met at every County border by the relevant police force! This Monodraught system will serve the extract ventilation requirements of the combined exhaust from multiple air handling units and was installed complete by our Gary James with the help of the Fitters from JRF Chimney Services in Scotland !

The fully automatic programmable control systems for Monodraught Windcatcher's have proved very successful over the last few years but end users have requested greater flexibility to suit their own particular needs. Whereas the main Monodraught emphasis has always been to provide automatic operation, we also appreciate there has always been a demand for better 'end user control'.
The two additions to the control systems therefore are as follows:-

Temperature sensor with override facility
• The ‘AUTO’ light is lit when the mode is automatic.
• To close the dampers for a 20 minute period the ‘CLOSED’ button should be pressed once and the LED above the ‘CLOSED’ button will then be lit.
After the 20 minute period the sensor will return to automatic and the ‘AUTO’ LED will then be lit.
• The same approach applies to the ‘OPEN’ button.

Positioner Control Panel
• When the ‘Within controllable temperature range’ light is illuminated, the user is able to alter the amount of damper opening between 0% and 100%, setting the dial accordingly.
• When the temperature falls below 16ºC the ‘Dampers shut’ light is illuminated, and when the temperature rises above 24ºC the ‘Dampers fully Open’ light is illuminated.

For further information, click here to go to Windcatcher Controls

Racking out is nearly now complete, so our SunPipe deliveries can be turned around even faster! Now that the new Warehouse is fully operational, we will start extending the offices into the old Warehouse area to provide desk space for a further six Engineers. The total transition will be complete by the middle of August. It was probably inevitable, but the electric power for the new Offices will all be by renewable energy! Our new wind turbines backed up with photovoltaic panels will power the computers and electrical requirements and any surplus power generated will go back to the National Grid. Watch this space for details of our new wind turbines!

ventilation, passive cooling and daylighting and his pioneering work on Windcatchers and SunPipes has transformed the industry.

This will undoubtedly play an important role in reducing CO 2 emission in buildings. Following the world leaders' meeting at G8 to discuss ways to tackle climate change, Professor Payne's appointment could not have come a better time. Our students and staff will benefit greatly from Professor Payne's wealth of experience".

Six Windcatchers have been installed at Cromer Pier in Norfolk to provide natural ventilation to this highly successful seaside venue. The Cromer Pier Story is featured in this month's Architecture Today as a technology feature and the six Windcatchers provide natural ventilation to the 500 seat auditorium. Planners were a bit of a problem to be persuaded to accept the 1500mm diameter Windcatchers on the roof of the Cromer Pier Pavilion but as the picture shows, the Windcatchers blended very neatly with their surroundings and have been welcomed by locals and officials alike. The Windcatchers have a special acoustic insulation to prevent the constant noise of seagulls interrupting stage performances!

Irene Horn of HORN aps is reporting very strong sales of SunPipes and Monovents in Denmark and the photos above show a 'before and after' situation of a Monovent installed in their Showroom in Lunderskov. In the UK , we tend to think that Scandinavian countries would not have enough sunlight to justify the use of SunPipes but clearly, we are wrong! Indeed, in Norway , they value sunlight very much indeed, so perhaps that is why SunPipes have proved so popular! For further details, please log on to our Overseas Distributors...

Monodraught have appointed the Architrave Design Group of Borrowdale, Harare, as their Agents and Consultants in Zimbabwe . Architrave will also be promoting SunPipes in Angola , Botswana , Namibia , Lesotho , Malawi , Mozambique , Swaziland , and Zambia . SunPipes have already been specified for the Customs Building at Beitbridge for the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority. This is the border post between Zimbabwe and South Africa and SunPipes have been incorporated as a "showcase" to that part of the world, considering it is the border post where thousands pass through each day. For further details, please log on to our Overseas Distributors section.

Nearly 1,000 Architects attended the glittering RIBA Awards Dinner in the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Hotel in London 's Park Lane on Friday, 17 th June. Monodraught had sponsored the Worldwide Awards, where seven finalists were announced, and in his introductory speech, the President, George Ferguson, made some highly amusing remarks regarding Monodraught's SunPipes!
Baroness Blackstone from the House of Lords also gave a very interesting speech and the whole evening was compared by the Editor, Paul Finch. A great evening was had by all but Nick Hopper, Monodraught's Head of Design, left at midnight by taxi with Engineer, Paul Darbon, to drive to Cambridge , since he was celebrating his stag night that weekend! After clubbing around London , the rest of the staff and guests finally made it back to High Wycombe in the early hours of Saturday morning!

Monodraught is sponsoring yet another Researcher at Nottingham University, Tahera Ali, who is in fact from Germany but has been studying under Professor Mat Santamouris in Athens . Tahera will be using Photopia software to analyse the performance of SunPipe systems, looking particularly at the integration of the Diamond dome, the Super Silver lengths, elbows of the various types, and probably most importantly, the bottom ceiling diffuser performance. Tahera's work will take six months and during that time she intends to take field measurements as part of the overall Study. Tahera will be working under the watchful eye of Dr Li Shao.