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The housing crisis and the need for better homes

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Event
  • Session
  • Friday, 15 September 2017
  • 10:15 - 10:15
  • Duration: 29 mins
  • Publication date: 29 Jan 2018
  • Location: Kelvin 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
  • Visual Carbon
  • atmosphere
  • carbon emissions
  • climate change
  • fossil fuel
  • fuel poverty
  • global energy use
  • heat
  • homelessness
  • housing
  • housing retrofit
  • power
  • private sector
  • public sector

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Speaker

  • Andy Simmonds

    Andy Simmonds

    CEO, Association for Environment Conscious Building

    Andy is an architectural designer and partner in Simmonds.Mills Architects as well as part-time Chief Executive of AECB – the Association for Environment Conscious Building. His architectural & building experience covers historic & contemporary buildings, innovative/traditional materials and the development of built environment energy efficiency solutions. Simmonds.Mills Architects designs sustainable low-energy domestic & non-domestic projects to the AECB Silver, Passivhaus & EnerPHit energy standards. Simmonds.Mills have completed several certified Passivhaus Buildings & Andy’s family home in Hereford is an exemplar near-Passivhaus (EnerPHit) ‘whole house’ low energy refurbishment.Andrew led the development of the AECB energy standards & initiated the AECB CarbonLite programme – including the AECB/TSB low energy buildings database & the CarbonLite Silver/Passivhaus/Gold detail design guidance. He also led the AECB team supporting the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Retrofit for the Future’ competition, including developing the low energy buildings database, & worked with AECB colleagues, setting up the Passivhaus Trust to bring to the mainstream the work of AECB CarbonLite. He worked with David Olivier on the AECB commissioned report ‘Less is More – Energy Security after Oil’.Andy talks widely on effective low energy building design and construction and has become expert on best practice in moisture-robust energy efficiency retrofitting of different types of UK buildings – in the context of UK wide need for cost effective and practicable decarbonisation of heat and power.
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