RIBA South East, supported by the Low Carbon Trust |and SECBE| ran How to make non-domestic buildings green as a day-long conference on 21 May 2009.

The conference looked at every aspect of sustainability in non-domestic buildings - including the cost of green features; and how soon they pay for themselves.

 

Feedback we received after the conference included:

'Extremely well-organised. The content/quality of the speakers was very high'

'Useful and thought-provoking'

'The interest of the delegates at the workshops was most uplifting'

'Excellent speakers, great presentations. How do you do it?'

 

Presentations by the individual speakers are attached below.

Robin Nicholson|, Edward Cullinan Architects/ CABE Commissioner, Enabling Panel

Keynote speech: Sustainable design: the moral and the aesthetic

 

 

Sue Roaf|, Professor of Architectural Engineering, Heriot Watt University

Adapting non-domestic buildings for climate change/low carbon buildings

 

Jerry Percy|, Head of Sustainability, Gleeds

Initial and whole-life costs and payback

 

Doug King|, RAE Visiting Professor of Building Physics, Bath University

The UK's greenest office: Innovate Green office, Leeds

 

Sandy Halliday|, Principal, Gaia Research

Sustainable solutions for the future

 

The conference was supported by an exhibition in which the following companies took part:

Aquaco Ltd|

 

Morgan Carn Partnership|

 

Thermal Economics|

 

Workshop Topics

Shaun Fitzgerald, BP Institute, University of Cambridge  - Natural Ventilation: how it is as effective as air conditioning, in education and commercial buildings

 

Brian Murphy, National Green Specification - Green specification for non-domestic buildings

 

Dave Worthington, ESD Ltd - Renewable energy technologies: what works, what doesn't

 

Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University - Post-occupancy evaluation of commercial buildings

 

Matt Hayes, Lee Evans Partnership LLP - Education buildings: their design and the sustainable way forward

 

Cath Hassell, ech2o Consultants Ltd - Water-saving technologies in non-domestic buildings

 

David Olivier, Energy Advisory Associates - Energy-efficient building design