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The Ecobuild conference focuses on emerging issues, new thinking, challenging ideas. For 2010, there is much to assess and debate: the progress made in putting sustainability at the core of construction and the built environment: the future direction the sector needs to take: how quickly and with what impact and to what effect. And all of that in a year - since Ecobuild 2009 - in which the macro economic environment remained weak, and construction continues to face a difficult period in which sustainability has to support profitability more critically than anyone could have foreseen.

This year’s conference looks at the challenges facing the sector as a whole and house building in particular, how sustainability can be achievable even in a downturn, why the existing stock must be the new priority, and how energy generation has become a key issue at a micro and local level. And coming between the Copenhagen summit and a likely Spring general election in the UK, the Ecobuild 2010 conference provides a timely opportunity to examine the progress being made with what needs to happen. The UK’s built environment will only become a low carbon one if there is political vision and ideas, plus the commitment to make change happen. To test out where that vision and commitment are likely to come from, there will be a number of opportunities to hear from relevant Government ministers and members of the main opposition parties, as well as senior figures from the sector. 

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Conference programme

tuesday 02 march

Conference hosted by: Kirsty Wark 

  • Counting the carbon, measuring the progress
  • Second generation sustainability: zero carbon without the bling
  • Copenhagen consequences: how strong is the political will for a low carbon Britain?
  • The challenge for construction
  • New homes, new thinking, new models
  • A strategy for energy: save it or decarbonise it?

wednesday 03 march

Conference hosted by: Justin Webb 

  • Refurbishment begins
  • Clarifying the zero carbon conundrum
  • International & green: learning from around the world
  • Construction: the cornerstone of a green recovery?
  • Making renewable generation happen
  • Minding the gap: finding 240,000 new houses per year

thursday 04 march

Conference hosted by: Edward Stourton

  • Zero Carbon new non-domestic buildings – rhetoric or reality?
  • Joining up infrastructure
  • Green expectations: can the property sector really be changed?
  • Only connect: codes, standards and regulations review

sessions in association with the uk-green building council

UK Green Building Council

tuesday 02 march

  • Counting the carbon, measuring the progress


wednesday 03 march

  • Refurbishment begins at home
  • Clarifying the zero carbon conundrum
  • Joining up infrastructure


thursday 04 march

  • Zero Carbon new non-domestic buildings – rhetoric or reality?
  • International and green: learning from around the world
  • Green expectations: can the property sector really be changed?
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new products

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new for 2010

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ecobuild fringe

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Conference slideshow

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ecobuild voxpops

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ecobuild video

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