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Counting the carbon, measuring the progressIt is now over 3 years since Government first announced the Code for Sustainable Homes and the 2016 Zero Carbon target. Policies have come thick and fast, including EPCs, DECs, the Carbon Reduction Commitment and planning requirements for tackling climate change. The UK-GBC has also advocated a form of Code to apply to non-domestic buildings, both new and existing. There is no shortage of attempts to get carbon under control, but has it worked? How far have we actually travelled? And what does Government need to do to complete the journey? Speakers Pooran Desai, Sustainability Director, BioRegional Quintain |
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Refurbishment begins at homeWith 26 million homes and some tough carbon reduction targets, refurbishment is set to rise up the agenda. Until now, it has been the elephant in the room – with pressing carbon savings to be made - it can no longer be ignored. The Government’s Home Energy Management strategy is supposed to tackle the issue. Will this be enough to incentivise home owners and landlords to refurbish Britain’s existing housing stock...on such a grand scale? Speakers David Adams, Head of External Affairs, Knauf Insulation, and Director, Zero Carbon Hu |
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Clarifying the zero carbon conundrumThe 2016 zero carbon homes target has been Government’s flagship green building policy. But more than 3 years since launch, does the industry finally have the clarity it has craved on the definition of a zero carbon home? Is the level of energy efficiency high enough? Is the list of allowable solutions right? And given very few houses have been built to the highest levels of the Code, how do we know the final definition is the right one? Speakers Peter Walls, CEO, Gentoo Group |
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International and green: learning from around the worldGreen design and low carbon building is rising up the agenda across the globe. Many are making substantial progress in affecting their policies and practices. This session examines those initiatives from the US, South Africa, and Germany, which have made the most impact in those markets, and from which the UK and other countries can learn. How much can the market take a lead and to what extent is government intervention required or even desirable? Speakers Tony Arnel, Chairman, World Green Building Council |
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Zero Carbon new non-domestic buildings – rhetoric or reality?Two years since the UK-GBC recommended an ambitious ten-year timetable, the Government has recently been consulting on the trajectory for achieving zero carbon non-domestic buildings: both commercial and public. What are the likely milestones, are the current ‘aspirational’ targets achievable, and at what cost? Speakers John Fiennes, Director for Sustainable Buildings and Climate Change, Department for Communities and Local Government |
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Joining up infrastructureFrustration abounds at the difficulty of integrating planning from a building - to district - to regional and national level. We’re told that many of the low and zero carbon solutions for the built environment will come at a district scale – connecting energy, water, waste - ICT even. Is this the right approach to take? Who is going to deliver all this? And can local authorities cope? Speakers Hergen Haye, Head of Distributive Energy & Heat Policy, Department of Energy & Climate Change |
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Green expectations: can the property sector really be changed?Does anything look like breaking the ‘circle of blame’ which has paralysed this sector? The introduction of EPCs and DECs were supposed to help, but a year on, their implementation seems patchy at best. Perhaps the policing of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) will prove to have more teeth? It will be implemented UK wide in April 2010, and amongst other things, it will pose particular challenges for landlords where they are responsible for paying the bill for energy used by their tenants. How can these policy initiatives be made to bring about change in the property sector? Speakers Max Crofts, President, RICS and Partner, King Sturge LLP |
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