FOOTPRINT podcasts

Facades at the heart of retrofit strategy

Facades are the skin of a building playing a role in thermal efficiency, daylighting and aesthetics etc. Improving the external envelope of buildings can be one of the most effective ways to alter a potentially stranded asset and give it a long term future, saving the embodied carbon within the existing building. What considerations should be foremost in the project team’s mind? This session will cover:

• establishing the trade-off between operational and embodied carbon costs of different solutions
• replacement of glazing, thermal elements and cladding materials
• early engagement with contractors 

Gianluca Rapone, Sustainability Lead - FMDC

Matthew Mapp, Head of Whole Life Carbon - Sweco

Margaux Basalo, Facade Package Manager - Mace Group

Laura Collins, Project Director - Stanhope

Emily Watson, Director - Stiff + Trevillion

Delivering BNG within dense urban environments

The Environment Bill has created obligations for developers that can have unintended consequences, not least the provisions for offsite gain or payments to local authorities in lieu of on-site provision. A tight urban site can seem to offer few opportunities to increase biodiversity and support nature. In this practical session addressing the challenges of delivery BNG within the red line boundary we hear from several specialists on strategies for increasing biodiversity on the most challenging of urban sites

Speakers

Haydn Keen, Business Development Director - RSK

Jon Davies, Director - RSK Wilding

Mark Knight, Landscape Team Leader - Groundwork

James King, Director, Planit

Breakfast Briefing with Modus: How is ESG driving asset performance?

Real estate businesses, funds and assets with a robust understanding of how to leverage ESG benefits through their activities place themselves at a strategic advantage in the market - minimising risk and enhancing future resilience – so it’s more important than ever to understand this trend for long term commercial success.

Join Workplace Futures Group, Modus and Lifeproven to debate the influence of ESG on the rapidly evolving landscape of real estate investments, and reveal how to develop a robust ESG strategy that focuses on enhancing both the financial and impact performance over time. 

This session will cover several key factors involved in implementing and maintaining a successful ESG strategy through all key real estate stages; including pre-acquisition due diligence, design and funding targets, engaging key stakeholders to understand the additional value you deliver for them,  procuring the right contracting team to deliver your strategy, capturing key ESG data through construction and operation, and also leveraging the right information to drive rental or sales demand.

Speakers

Tim White, Chief Operating Officer - Workplace Futures Group

Adam Hinds, Co-Founder - LifeProven

Juliet Price, Project Director - Modus

 

Xylo: The largest all-timber frame office building in the UK

Xylo, the largest consented all-timber office building in the UK, is a 9-storey, glulam and CLT framed office building in Clerkenwell. Designed as a kit of parts, it proposes a new typology of sustainable office building based around the future adaptability and the wellbeing of its occupants. This whole building approach to sustainability demonstrates that when retrofit isn’t an option, Mass Timber can offer the most environmentally responsible approach. Exceeding the sustainability targets set by both the GLA and Camden Council, this building has been calculated to lower operational carbon emissions by up to 82% over a typical office building. The offsite fabrication of the timber structure lowers the construction phase carbon emissions and as a result, overall embodied emissions will be 25% better than the aspirational GLA WLC benchmark and better than the UKGBC Case for Net Zero Feasibility Study Stretch Targets. 

Speakers

Karianne Kraaijestein, Director - Pure Mind Management

Andy Heyne, Director - Heyne Tillett Steel

Chris Price, Sustainability Consultant and Embodied Carbon Specialist - Max Fordham LLP

Jason Coe, Associate - Piercy & Co

Andrew Ross, Development Director - Global Holdings

Retrofit-first planning policy

GLA Whole life carbon and Circular Economy policies have transformed development in London. Councils, such as Westminster City and City of London, have developed borough-specific policies that go one BIG step further developing specific planning targets to prevent demolition and being to set limits to embodied carbon emissions. 

What is the future for planning policy in evaluating retrofit and new build proposals?

Chairperson

Rachael Owens, Head of Sustainability - Buckley Gray Yeoman

Speakers

Kerstin Kane, Principal Planning Officer - City of London

Gustavo Brunelli, Technical Director - Atelier Ten

Sophia Ceneda, Associate & Sustainability Lead - Howells

Delivering real estate for Article 8 and 9 funds

Bloom Camberwell is one of the first logistics facilities in the UK able to demonstrate true alignment with the Paris Agreement commitments on climate change through the UK ESG Taxonomies. Sustainable investment funds require project teams to show compliance throughout the project lifecycle so assessments needed from Stage 2 have included:

• Climate Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
• Disassembly and Adaptability Study
• Global Warming Potential Study

Monitoring throughout the detailed design and construction phases by the contractor, supply chain and wider project team will be used to verify the outcomes up to practical completion. These evaluations are critical in informing the Taxonomy Specification and ultimately fulfilling the regulatory requirements of an article 8 or 9 fund. 

Chairperson

Liz Hamson, Editor-in-Chief - BE News

Speakers

Andy Cox, Director - Trigon DM

Chris Leonard, Development Director - Bloom Developments

Eoin Leonard, CEO - Catalyst

Bradley Harris, Construction Director - Magrock

Breakfast Briefing with Willmott Dixon: Early Contractor Involvement: Enhancing Deliverability

The integration of the contractor within the design team and process is standard practice for some building types and sectors. For decarbonisation projects it can bring specific beneficial outcomes. In this session the contractor and developer will show how ECI gets projects on site with more cost and programme security and with less risk discussing:

• the incorporation of specialist knowledge in the early stages of a project
• the importance of strategic delivery approaches across key stakeholder groups
• mitigation of risks earlier in the development stages    

Chairperson

Richard Bartlett, Pre-Construction Director - Willmott Dixon

Speakers

Kelly Crews, Head of Decarbonisation - Willmott Dixon

Basil Demeroutis, Managing Partner - FORE Partnership

Energy consumption data analysis: Reaping the rewards

The British Property Federation's recent Towards Net Zero research asked investors, developers, managers, owners and occupiers about the challenges they were facing in their path towards net zero. Senior leaders from 45 different organisations identified that the biggest challenge they or their clients/tenants faced in the transition to net zero carbon was access to sufficient energy consumption data. 

Join the panel as they discuss the data challenges across different asset classes:

• exploring the importance and use of energy data in reaching net zero and the role of technology 
• highlighting good practice with case studies
• exploring perceptions around the role of landlords in sharing data
• the development of policies around energy consumption data

Chairperson

Sammy Pahal, Managing Director - UK Proptech Association

Speakers

Alice Nordvall, Customer Success Team Lead - Position Green

Fred Lee, Senior Counsel - Farrer & Co

Rob Wall, Assistant Director - British Property Federation

John Inglis, Head of Net Zero - Get Living