LEARN FROM THE BEST AVOID COSTLY MISTAKES AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY. A TWO DAY CONFERENCE PACKED WITH PRACTICAL CASE STUDIES AND ADVICE YOU CAN PUT TO WORK STRAIGHT AWAY. What are the most practical and cost-effi cient ways to retrofi t existing homes? How do you make new properties hit green targets while staying on budget? What are the best materials and technologies to use in various environments? What will the Green Deal mean for the social housing sector?

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13 & 14 APRIL 2011, DEXTER HOUSE, TOWER HILL, LONDON Opening message
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AVOID COSTLY MISTAKES AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY. A TWO DAY
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YOU CAN PUT TO WORK STRAIGHT AWAY.
What are the most practical and cost-efficient ways to retrofit existing homes?
How do you make new properties hit green targets while staying on budget?
What are the best materials and technologies to use in various environments?
What will the Green Deal mean for the social housing sector?
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Retrofit for the Future by
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8.45 Registration and coffee 12.40 Lunch and exhibition visit
9.15 Opening address 2.00 Panel Discussion/audience Q&A
Greg Barker, Minister of State for Climate Change, Featuring a selection of the morning’s speakers,
will deliver a video message plus Richard Baines, Director of Sustainable
Development, Black Country Housing
9.30 Scene setter – How much energy/carbon needs
to be saved in social housing? 2.40 Retrofit in-situ versus decant – a debate
How quickly do we need to accelerate the This session will look at the pros and cons of the
programme to get us on target to hit our CO2 two options, and the cost implications.
national reduction targets? Progress to date. Paul Ciniglio, Sustainability and Innovation
Andrew Eagles, Managing Director, Manager, Radian
Sustainable Homes Cathy Hough, Associate, Camco
Jeremy Dickin, Stock Options Surveyor, Radian
10.00 Innovations in housing refurbishment
An exclusive preview of the early lessons from the 3.40 Tea and exhibition visit
various innovative approaches trialled across the 86
4.00 Working with tenants to reduce energy use in
projects funded by the Retrofit for the Future
the house
programme. What ideas/technologies were tried?
The University of Greenwich is seeking to develop
What shows promise and what doesn’t?
household interventions that reduce energy
Ian Meikle, Head of Low Impact Buildings,
consumption and fuel poverty, while improving
Technology Strategy Board and Paul Ruyssevelt,
occupier comfort. Developed with reference to
Sustainable Energy and Carbon specialist
observed behaviour patterns, these interventions
11.00 Coffee and exhibition visit are currently being tested in a number of
RSLs across the UK. This presentation will
11.20 PassivHaus refurbishment
examine the findings from this and other studies
This session offers an essential explanation of the
currently underway.
PassivHaus standard, and experiences of
Justine Cooper, Research Fellow, School of
PassivHaus refurbs in the UK and Europe. It includes
Architecture and Construction, University of
a personal account of the practical challenges
Greenwich
involved in refurbishing one’s own home to this
standard. 4.30 Financing retrofit
Andy Simmonds, CEO, AECB - the Sustainable Understanding the Green Deal: opportunities for
Building Association and Partner, Simmonds Mills landlords and other key stakeholders.
Architects Nicholas Doyle, Head of Sustainable Development,
Places for People
12.00 Case Study: Tower block retrofit
Stephen Penlington, Policy Advisor, Green Deal
An overview of the particular issues with retrofitting
Financing and Legislation, DECC
of tower blocks and the scale of the challenge in
Martin Reeves, Chief Executive, Coventry
the UK. Focusing on blocks such as Edward Woods
City Council
and Ferrier Point, the session looks at strategies,
David Adams, Head of Retrofit, Willmott Dixon and
the technical and tenant issues encountered and
Founder, Zero Carbon Hub
the results so far.
Mark Elton, Associate Director, ECD Architects with 5.30 Networking drinks in the exhibition
Liz Tuckwell, Regeneration Project Manager,
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
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3. DAY TWO: 14 APRIL
NEW BUILDINGS, NEW MATERIALS, NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Chair - Stuart Macdonald, Editor, Inside Housing
8.45 Registration and coffee 12.00 Case study: Graylingwell Park
Award-winning Graylingwell Park will be the UK’s
9.10 Scene setter: Learning from the past – learning
largest carbon neutral neighbourhood on completion,
for the future: a short history of low energy
with forty per cent of the 800-home community
housing in the UK
planned as affordable housing. We hear about
John Willoughby, Energy and Environmental
its innovative use of technology and successful
Design Consultant
Community Development Trust.
Marcus Adams, Managing Partner, John Thompson
9.30 Case Study: PassivHaus developments:
& Partners with Joyce Ferguson, Regional
Assessing the PassivHaus standard and its
Development Director and Julia Charter, Head of
relevance to UK housing
New Business, Affinity Sutton
The UK’s first zero carbon Passive Houses were
completed during summer 2010, in Wales. We hear 12.45 Q&A session for the teams from the case studies
the latest results of the monitoring carried out over
winter 2011 and a detailed breakdown of project 1.15 Lunch and exhibition visit
costs in comparison with RICS house building costs.
Plus, the latest info from an investment banker’s 2.30 New materials
detailed assessment of PH standard running cost Andrew will be working with a panel of materials
implications, using historic and future energy costs. experts and presenting a review of the most
Justin Bere, Director, bere:architects important materials that may have a role to play in
both new build housing and retrofit.
Panel Chair: Andrew Mellor, Director, Environmental
10.15 Case Study: Hanham Hall Services, PRP Architects
Hanham Hall, near Bristol, is being hailed as the UK’s
first large scale zero carbon development. There has 3.30 Tea and exhibition visit
been considerable interest in its progress and this
presentation will be an exclusive preview of the first 3.50 New technologies
dwellings, due to be occupied in early 2011. A review of the new technologies that are now
Rory Bergin, Head of Sustainability and Innovation, available for retrofit and new build, chosen and
HTA and Paul Newman, Technical Director, assessed by a panel of sustainability technology
Kingspan Potten experts.
Panel Chair: Bill Watts, Senior Partner,
11.00 Coffee and exhibition visit Max Fordham
11.20 Case Study: Unity Gardens 4.50 Summary and closing remarks from the Chair
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