Ecobuild - Tuesday 02 March

Sustainable by design

Design affects everything. Every component, every product, every building. This stream addressed 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.

All sessions took place in the Thames Room, sponsored by WRAP

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10.30 – 12.00

Designer on the roof

Green roofs have been around for years and are at last achieving ‘normality’ in developers’ plans, and indeed are enshrined in the guidance of the London Plan. But what are the real issues surrounding the take up of effective green roof installations, and are they ones of design at all?

chair: Dusty Gedge, President, European Federation of Green Roof Associations and Founder of livingroofs.org

10.30 – 11.00	Anatomy of a successful green roof
	Dusty Gedge, President, European Federation of Green Roof Assoiciations and Founder of livingroofs.org

11.00 – 11.20	State of the Art case study: a mixed use development in Osnaburgh Street
	Neil Marlow, Landscape Specialist, Arup Neil Harwood, Ecologist, Arup

11.20 – 11.40	How the design language of biodiversity roofs can influence the ground plane
	Celia Baxter, Landscape Architect, Living Edge Design Ltd

11.40 – 12.00	Policy and practise
	Paul Collins, Head of Designed Environment, School of Architecture, Design & the Built Environment, and Deputy Chair RICS Planning & Development Professional Group, Nottingham Trent University

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12.30 – 14.00

Innovation in bio-based construction products

Research into natural and renewable building products to replace those made from fossil resources has led not only to the development of materials derived from alternative and non-food crops, but also – crucially – to how such materials can be commercialised into low-carbon supply chains.

chair: Dr John French, Managing Director, InCrops Enterprise Hub

12.30 – 13.00	Introduction to InCrops and the opportunities for innovative construction and fabrication companies
	Dr John French, Managing Director, InCrops Enterprise Hub

13.00 – 13.20	Modeling the supply chain for new low carbon forestry products
	Dr Mark Coleman, Business Innovation Manager, InCrops Enterprise Hub

13.20 – 13.40	Sustainable design at home: a review of Ecohouses in the East of England
	Chris Gaze, Associate Director, BRE

13.40 – 14.00	Developments and advances in fibre crop exploitation, new products and construction approaches
	Dr Carlos Gonzalez-Esquivel, AgriBusiness Officer, InCrops Enterprise Hub

14.30 – 16.00

Designing out waste

From the general to the particular – inspiration, education and examples of how to design both process and product to reduce primary waste, use existing waste, and anticipate the re-usability of a building.

chair: Jim Wiltshire, Construction Programme Manager – Designers and Contractors, WRAP

14.30 – 15.00	Case studies: design and build to minimise waste
	Jim Wiltshire, Construction Programme Manager – Designers and Contractors, WRAP

15.00 – 15.20	Reducing waste by design
	Tony Yates, Principal, SLR Consulting Ltd

15.20 – 15.40	Specifying and procuring reclaimed materials and components
	Jonathon Essex, Reclaimed Materials Manager, BioRegional Development Group

15.40 – 16.00	Architectural salvage – meeting new market needs
	Steve Tomlin, Managing Director, MASCo

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16.30 – 18.00

More thoughts about buildings and food

When urban growth comes to mean making buildings that act like fields, or at least kitchen gardens, there has to be a social and behavioural impact as well as an effect on urban and building design. What will buildings be like when they are expected to feed as well as house people?

chair: Clare Brass, Founder and Director, SEED Foundation