Ecobuild’s exhibitors and partners offer a huge choice of events outside the official programme.  Here are a few of the highlights…

• Trada Timber Tours
• RIBA CPD sessions
• Building on the Olympics
• BREEAM Awards
• Get snapped with CRASH
• Landscape Architecture - inspiring great places
• Wood Awards showcase
• European B2B matchmaking event
• UKTI focus on international opportunities
• UBM open-house
• UK-GBC ‘big tent’
• Innovative ways to recycle carpet
• Securing skills, sharing knowledge
• RIBA village
• The Strategic Forum for Construction’s guide to water efficiency in construction

Guided tours around the Ecobuild exhibition will highlight the latest innovations in timber and timber-related products, with TRADA Technology specialists providing an expert commentary on the technical and regulatory drivers behind them.

Tours will run hourly on each day of Ecobuild.  To be sure of your place, please contact Louise Govier lgovier@trada.co.uk in advance. 

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For the first time, RIBA CPD sessions will be taking place at Ecobuild. 
 
A full programme, over three days, this is an unique opportunity for all construction and design professionals to gain up-to-date knowledge and enhance personal proficiency in a wide range of subjects, as well as earn CPD points from some of the top companies in their field.

• All sessions are accredited under the RIBA CPD Core Curriculum
• Each session is one hour, and you can book as many separate sessions per day as you wish

RIBA CPD sessions at Ecobuild are free to attend.  Details of the programme will be available from mid-February.

Ecobuild is an Olympics learning legacy partner, bringing together the lessons learned from the 2012 games construction project to create a specific programme of conference and seminar sessions across the three days.

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Back at Ecobuild for a third consecutive year, the BREEAM Awards recognise the highest scoring buildings under BREEAM. Over 200,000 buildings are now certified and last year saw one of the highest levels of new registrations – a real success story in the face of a challenging economic climate.

The 2012 awards will cover a number of sectors including offices, healthcare, schools and further education, industrial buildings and retail. There will also be awards under BREEAM In-Use for existing buildings and a number of international categories.

Winners will be announced at Ecobuild on Tuesday 20 March at 17.00 on
level 1 of the Platinum Suite.

Ecobuild’s chosen charity, CRASH – the construction and property industry’s charity for homeless people – invites you to find out about the work they do and the projects they support, and take away a photographic memento of your time at Ecobuild from the CRASH photo booth.
 
Get snapped with CRASH every day in the Ecobuild boulevard, stand B1.

2012 is an inspiring year for landscape. The Olympic Park will command the world’s attention throughout the summer, Granary Square will revolutionise the heart of King’s Cross and a brand new Leicester Square will see the profession at its most creative.

At Ecobuild 2012, the Landscape Institute, the professional body for landscape architecture will launch its first guide for clients. And to celebrate, a one day conference will showcase the best of the landscape profession by exploring these themes:

• The power to transform places
• Optimising land use to create value
• Planning for prosperity
• Minimising the impact of new infrastructure
• Planning for people
• Creating beauty and civic pride

Click here to view the sessions

Winners of the 2011 Wood Awards – the UK’s premier awards for wood in buildings and furniture - will be showcased at Ecobuild including the Rothschild Foundation’s building for the Alice Trust which took gold in the structural category.

Other winners showcased will include

• Brockholes Visitor Centre
• The Apex, Arc, Bury St Edmunds  
• Strange House
• The Watson
• Far Moor Bridge
• Diamond Hall, University Of Ulster
• Windsor Rocker  
• Suent Superlight Chair   
• The Manolo Lounger   
• 081-23mr - Stairs

Winning entries will be shown on stand S640 throughout Ecobuild.

Enterprise Europe South-East will be hosting a B2B matchmaking event during Ecobuild, focusing on sustainable design, eco-technologies, new building materials and technologies, and systems and equipment using alternative energy sources.

Through a series of one-to-one pre-arranged meetings, participants will meet potential commercial and technology partners from all over Europe. Meetings will take place in South Gallery rooms 25 & 26.

For more information, and to reserve your place, contact tel:  +44 (0) 844 725 2244, e-mail:  info@enterpriseeurope-se.eu

UBM Built Environment, owners of Ecobuild and other well-known brands including Building, Building Design, Property Week and Barbour ABI, invite you to an open-house over the three days, and a variety of events including:

• Well-known industry figures in conversation with Giles Barrie, Editor-in-Chief of Property Week
• Tom Broughton, Brand Director of Building announces his ‘Top 50 Sustainability Rising Stars’
• Tom Lane, Assistant Editor of Building launches the ‘Future of Sustainability’ white paper
• Build a Lego school – donate £1 to build a school out of Lego and help raise money for UBM’s building schools charity

Stand S1930

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the Government organisation that helps UK businesses succeed in international markets and will be running events at Ecobuild which focus on international opportunities.

Key themes will include:

• Global business opportunities in the Low Carbon Built Environment flowing from major sporting events and urban regeneration
• Urban regeneration in India and opportunities for UK companies
• Sustainable Infrastructure in Brazil – Opportunities from 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics
• Low Carbon Developments in China

Click here for the full programme of UKTI events at Ecobuild 

The UK-GBC will be hosting a programme of events in their ‘big tent’ on the exhibition floor, including:

• Developing lasting communities, presented by featured speaker Grand Design TV presenter and developer Kevin McCloud
• Why government policy can be a hindrance to long-range planning by progressive companies
• London 2012 Olympic Park delivery
• The Green Deal
• Life Cycle Assessment

These and other sessions will be taking place on stand N545.

View the full UK-GBC 'big tent' programme by clicking on the links below.

Tuesday 20 March
Wednesday 21 March
Thursday 22 March

Carpet UK will be showcasing innovative new ways to reuse carpet materials and offcuts every day on their stand at Ecobuild plus a detailed one-day seminar programme which will consider the latest process for treating recovered carpet as a rich new resource for novel products and high-end applications, including:

• Innovative construction products from carpet fibres
• Design for recycling and designing products with recycled content
• Carpet tile reuse and recycling 

Carpet UK’s showcase takes place on all three days on stand S20.  The seminar takes place on Thursday 22 March in South Gallery 8.

Click here for the seminar programme.

For more information contact Carpet Recycling UK on tel: +44 (0) 161 440 8325.

IET presents two interactive panel discussions that tackle two key challenges facing the engineering sector in the built environment – collaborative working and knowledge sharing – with a focus on skills as the demands on the engineering sector continue to increase.

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Visitors to the RIBA and NBS – the ‘RIBA village’ - will find myriad activities including:

• RIBA CPD – details of the new curriculum, the launch of a brand new online CPD service and the opportunity to attend CPD from the RIBA CPD Providers Network
• RIBA Product Selector – see how easy it is to find and source the products you need online at the click of a mouse plus your chance to sign up to receive a free copy of the new 2021 Product Selector Directory
• RIBA - representatives from RIBA  will be on hand to answer member queries
• A RIBA Appointments consultant will be available to advise organisations looking to recruit
• The RIBA Bookshop will be bigger and better than ever before as the official Ecobuild Bookshop, with a range of books specially selected for Ecobuild visitors. Several key authors will be visiting the bookshop during the event for book signings, plus the launch of Sofie Pelsmakers’ new book, ‘The Environmental Design Pocketbook’
• RIBA Insight - will be on the stand to advise manufacturers of construction products how to improve their chances of being specified
• NBS – will be launching their brand new specification tool NBS Create as well as celebrating the launch of the National BIM Library

PLUS!

RIBA’s BITESized auditorium offering a wide variety of programmed activities including:

• Short and snappy 15 minute talks every day,  delivered by RIBA colleagues, NBS, leading authors and a host of invited high profile guests, and covering a wide range of topic areas affecting the construction industry today
• A daily Pecha Kucha 20x20 hour
• Two RIBA member Q&A sessions with RIBA President Angela Brady and RIBA Chief Executive Harry Rich

All taking place on stand S1630 and S1640

Click here for the full programme of RIBA Village events at Ecobuild

       

Join The Strategic Forum for Construction (SFfC) for an introduction to water efficiency in construction.  This session is based around the recent publication of simple guidance and training materials for best practice in delivering reduced water use on sites, working towards a 20% improvement on 2008 baseline.   

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