The Big Refurb Debate: Putting Best Practice into Practice

Session
Friday, 15 September 2017
15:15 - 15:15
Duration: 42 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

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

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Wilmcote House

affordable housing

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domestic energy retrofit

energy efficiency

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environment

footprint

home owner

homebuying

housing

renewable enrgy

retrofit

smart storage

social housing

solar

solar power

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Speakers

Professor Ellen van Bueren

Delft University of Technology, Professor of Urban Development Management

Ellen van Bueren is professor of urban development management at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, and Principal Investigator at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS). In her research and teaching she focuses on the governance challenges of today’s urban areas, many of which require a transition towards sustainable urban systems.
Professor Chris Gorse

Leeds Sustainability Institute, Director

Christopher Gorse is the Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute and a Professor of Construction and Project Management at Leeds Beckett University. He is a Chartered Builder, Engineering Professors Council Member, with over 20 years industrial and academic experience in buildings, materials, management and construction law. He has written extensively on the construction of buildings and the processes required to deliver them successfully and measure their performance.Chris is keen to push the boundaries of research. As Vice Chair of the Association for Researchers in Construction Management and Sub Task Lead on three International Energy Agency projects he not only assembles expert research groups, but is active in developing a better understanding of how buildings behave, can be made more efficient, controllable and how they play their role in the energy flexibility that is required to deliver a cleaner network of energy.
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.
Professor Rajat Gupta

Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD, Director

Professor Rajat Gupta is Director of the multi-disciplinary Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Low Carbon Building Research Group at Oxford Brookes University, where he also holds professorial chair in sustainable architecture and climate change. He developed the RIBA award-winning DECoRuM model for carbon mapping communities. Rajat’s research interests lie in scaling up energy retrofits and monitoring, and evaluating impacts of community-led retrofits. As Principal Investigator, he has won over £8 million in research grants from ESRC, EPSRC, EU, Innovate UK, World Bank, UNEP, RICS and British Council. Recently Rajat was PI on a ESRC/EPSRC funded £1.14 million EVALOC project on evaluating the impacts of low carbon communities on localised energy behaviours. Rajat has also been lead academic on several Innovate UK funded projects under the Retrofit for the Future and Invest in Innovative Refurbishment competitions, as well as a LEAF project on carbon mapping communities.

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