Eco-retrofit
Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies

29th June 2010
08.00 – 10.30 (core meeting 08.30-10.00 plus networking opportunities)
Blake Lapthorn
Eastleigh
Hampshire

FREE event

Organised by: Hampshire Sustainable Construction Network & The Centre for Sustainable Design

Supported by: The Manufacturing Advisory Service - South-East

Objective: To highlight product/technology development and innovation issues associated with eco-retrofit

Introduction

Eco-retrofit: Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies builds on a successful partnership between Hampshire Sustainable Construction Network and The Centre for Sustainable Design that recently delivered Achieving ‘Zero Carbon’?: Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies which attracted over 70 delegates.

The second workshop will focus on the practical challenges, barriers and opportunities related to the implementation of eco-retrofit in the UK.

The UK housing eco-retrofit challenges include:

80% reduction in CO2 required by 2050 (Climate Change Act)
24 million existing homes
85% of homes will still be in existence in 2050
27% of total carbon emissions
500,000 whole house refurbishments each year to 2050 (The Existing Homes Alliance)
7 million ‘C80’ retrofits by 2020 (UK Government Heat & Energy Strategy ambition)

With the key barriers to ‘scaling up’ eco-retrofit in the UK being:

Lack of knowledge and awareness (completed and monitored pilot projects)
Absence of sustainable long term financing (‘C60+’ retrofit costs £25-40k per home) until PAYS (Pay As You Save) is put in place
Major construction industry skills gaps in the field of low carbon refurbishment (amongst industry stakeholders, the workforce and trainers)
Breaking market failure to create demand

To help increase the diffusion of eco-retrofit products and technologies there will need to better incentives and improved opportunities for demonstration. For example, the 'Retrofit for the Future' project is retrofitting eighty seven social housing projects in the UK with low carbon building technologies through £17 million funding from the Technology Strategy Board.

Eco-retrofit: Implications for Sustainable Building Products & Technologies will provide an update on new developments and will provide a number of case studies from the UK and Scandinavia. Finally, there will be a discussion on key issues associated with product/technology development related to eco-retrofit.

Audience

The event is primarily targeted at the needs of companies with less than 250 employees based in the Hampshire and the South-East of England. It will be appropriate for product/technology suppliers, builders, developers, architects, planners, sub-contractors, procurers of buildings and building services and many others associated both directly and indirectly with the built environment.

Benefits of attending

Concise update of new developments
Overview of product/technology development and sourcing issues and implications for key roles in the sector
Practical examples
Networking

Agenda

Chairs: Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UCA and Gary Wilburn, Chairman, Hampshire Sustainable Construction Network

8.00: Registration & networking
8.30: Introduction
Gary Wilburn, Hampshire Sustainable Construction Network
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UCA
8.45: Overview of innovation and product/technology implications related to eco-retrofit
Russell Smith, Managing Director, Parity Projects
9.00: Products/technologies: lessons learnt from eco-retrofit projects
Paul Ciniglio, Sustainability & Innovation Manager, Radian Technical Services
9.15: Sourcing products/technologies for eco-retrofit
Gary Wilburn, Creative Director, HPW Partnership
9.30: Eco-retrofit products/technologies: examples from Scandinavia
Kim Junker, Director, Moth & Partners International
9.45: Discussion
10.00: Networking
10.30: Close

Registration

The workshop is free of charge. Please complete the registration form below and return it to Ros Carruthers on rcarruthers.t1@ucreative.ac.uk or on fax on 01252-892747.

Registration Form