- Seminars
Ecobuild’s renowned seminar programme offers more than 100 sessions covering the most pressing and important issues for built environment professionals.
With the emphasis throughout on delivering practical and applied information, each seminar is carefully structured to provide key learning points, supported by case studies, analysis, and examples of best practice. The topics have been grouped into the following streams.
There has never been such an important time for micro and community scale generation. Government policy is being directed at it, new products and solutions are becoming available, and best practice and thinking are being refined and developed. This series of seminars will investigate the market drivers for micro and small scale generation, understand how to find the right scale solution for the right situation, and how to specify each of the core technologies as stand alone or as integrated solutions.
Management of water in the built environment has never been more topical. These seminars will provide practical guidance on the 2010 upgrade to building regulations, sustainable water use, and water management and efficiency in both new and existing buildings. Seminars will also address rainwater harvesting, SUDS, and the role of planning in mitigating flood risk.
Responding to the amount of regulation, codes and standards, and the speed of their introduction, provides a challenge for many in the sector, particularly in a period of downturn. Whether it is the latest on EPBD, EPCs and DECs, Parts F&L, BREEAM, the Definition of Zero Carbon and the Code for Sustainable Homes, this series of seminars will help visitors understand the application of the regulations to design, planning, construction and refurbishment.
The drive to design and construct lower carbon buildings is clear. But better new buildings will only emerge by learning about new techniques and materials, and from the actual performance of others in practice. So this stream examines a variety of products and practices which affect a building’s performance, and brings everything together by looking at the lessons learned from buildings in use.
Never before have those working in construction and the built environment had to respond to so many new and revised standards. This stream deals with the more understood as well as the emerging standards. It also explains the connections between them, and some of the tools and guides which are starting to become available to help designers and specifiers.
It is now an incontrovertible fact that refurbishment is the key to achieving a low carbon built environment. The majority of the buildings which exist today will still exist in 2050. For the UK to meet its targets and obligations on carbon emissions, this building stock will have to be refurbished and made much more efficient. This series of seminars takes a wide ranging look at the challenge posed by refurbishment, examines the drivers for change, the commercial case, the practical issues involved, and the technical and materials solutions appropriate to different building types.
As a concise update and programme for planners, designers, managers and developers, this series of seminars will explore the principles, policies, new research and practical ways of making more sustainable places. This ranges from visions of tomorrow’s cities, green infrastructure, transition towns, making space for food, better streets for people, designing for health and liveable microclimates, through to retrofitting green roofs, effective environmental design measures and the continued importance of trees.
Design affects everything. Every component, every product, every building. This stream addresses itself to a wide variety of design issues, each one of them to do with an aspect of sustainability, and each searching for the stimulating, the inspirational and the challenging.
This series of seminars examines several important markets for construction and built environment professionals. They are markets which are funded (in the UK mostly as part of the Government’s public capital expenditure programme), which are taking sustainability seriously (those in the UK are clearly subject to public procurement policies), and for the foreseeable future at least, present important opportunities for a sector which continues to feel the effects of the downturn.
In an incredibly short space of time, most of the stakeholders in construction have begun to change their approach and practices in response to an ever more pressing objective of designing and building ‘sustainably’. These seminars take a step away from the technical back office, and from building design and materials, and explore the wider context. How does construction sit in an holistic appraisal of a sustainable built environment, and a vision of a sustainable Britain?
As the market begins to grow, and as a variety of Government initiatives start to encourage the installation of micro renewable energy systems, this series of seminars and training sessions will identify the business opportunity, explain the technologies, and describe the business and commercial advantages of becoming trained and equipped to install and maintain micro generation systems.
The emergence of micro renewable energy systems, will transform the generation, heating and construction sectors in the next ten years – a transformation which will represent enormous opportunity and a need to change. This series of seminars and training sessions will explain that change from a practical perspective. It will provide an introduction to installing and maintaining the complete range of micro generation solutions, how to retrofit them and how to integrate them into existing buildings and systems.
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