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Re-building Europe With ZEB retrofits

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  • Session
  • Friday, 15 September 2017
  • 10:15 - 10:15
  • Duration: 32 mins
  • Publication date: 29 Jan 2018
  • Location: Turing Lecture Theatre, IET London: Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Eco Connect - The Future of house building

About the session

SESSION: Retrofit Europe: Concepts and Experiences

The IET is delighted to lend its support to Eco Connect’s 2017 London event and its over-arching theme of ‘the future of housebuilding and retrofit’.

One day, one venue. This event combines two world-class conferences:

The International Refurbishment Symposium (IRS 2017)
‘How to transform Europe’s existing housing stock’ 2017 International Refurbishment Symposium - a world-class line up of contributors:

Find out how others are boosting sustainability, resilience and productivity within the housing retrofit sector

Hear about the latest research, innovations and best practice

Network with industry experts and practitioners, leading academics and policy-makers.

AECB National Conference 2017 
‘How to deliver quantity and quality new-build housing at scale’ The Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) National Conference 2017:

* Find out how government is responding to the housing crisis

* Discover how development is changing and how to get involved

* Hear from clients who support sustainable development and how to win work from them

* Learn how to build good practice in all your construction projects 


Inspired by the challenge of the housing crisis and with rising levels of homelessness and fuel poverty, both at home and abroad, the IET Built Environment has been leading the Institution’s interest in housing retrofit.

#Retrofit for people! Following on from the pioneering work taking place in UK Cities such as Nottingham, Bristol, Oxford and Leeds, the IET is keen to bring together engineers, practitioners and industry experts from the housing sector to celebrate good practice in retrofit and, moreover, to further the cause of healthy, safe and affordable homes for all. 

This International Refurbishment Symposium represents an early opportunity to engage with the IET, expert volunteers and practitioners.

If you would like to hear more about the IET’s developing agenda within retrofit please contact Rick Hartwig, IET Built Environment Lead via email at RHartwig@theiet.org

Keywords:
  • IET Built Environment
  • International Refurbishment Symposium
  • affordable housing
  • consumer
  • energy efficient
  • environment
  • footprint
  • home owner
  • homebuying
  • housing
  • renewable enrgy
  • retrofit
  • solar
  • sustainability

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  • Professor Ronald Rovers

    Professor Ronald Rovers

    SBScentre, Owner Director

    Ronald’s main focus is developing closed cycle approaches for the built environment. He is currently involved in developing concepts for large scale renovation of houses towards 0-energy performance, as well as working on projects focused on climate neutral buildings and city development. Ronald’s research concentrates on Zero Impact Built Environment (ZIBE), with a special focus on the material impacts of construction and renovation, as well as on processed bamboo as a construction material. He has launched a closing cycles calculation tool, under the MAXergy methodology (maximising energy and mass exergy, with ‘Embodied Land’ as denominator) and is the developer of Urban Harvest + model which evaluates 0-impact urban areas.Since 1998, Ronald has also been involved in organising and chairing a number of conferences dedicated to a low energy refurbishment for a sustainable future. Some of his most notable past conference include:SBE16 conference Transition ZeroSB2000 Maastricht 1st world conference Sustainable BuildingEU Housing ministers ConferencePLEA 2004 EindhovenRonald is also a founding board member of iiSBE, the international initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment.
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