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We bring the smartest minds in the property carbon-reduction world to FOOTPRINT, so we think it’s only right for us to disseminate all this experience and knowledge freely. Most of what you hear here won’t have been spoken about before; it’s all hot-off-the-press! If you were at FOOTPRINT 2024, you can hear all the talks you couldn’t get to while you were in another of our 6 theatres; and if you weren’t, now is your chance to learn why you need to be at FOOTPRINT 2025 (and it’s all CPD-approved).
Episodes
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
The UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
The UK NZC Building Standard sets out to provide a methodology by which buildings can be assessed as Net Zero against Science-Based targets to reduce emissions in line with the Paris climate agreement. Working groups have tackled 13 different building sectors to determine an approach to setting limits on embodied carbon and operational energy, and minimum targets for aspects such as on-site renewables, demand flexibility, etc.
Chairperson
Heather Evans, National Head of Sustainability - Rider Levett Bucknall
Speakers
Julie Godefroy, Head of Net Zero Policy - CIBSE
Adam Baranowski, Head of Climate Action & Investment - Better Buildings Partnership
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Improving the accuracy of embodied carbon modelling
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Carbon calculations rely on accurate data and modelling of the embodied carbon in proposed schemes. Significant decisions about the direction of the project including weighing up the relative value of refurbishment vs. demolition and rebuild are based on these results.
How can we develop consistent carbon modelling and establish a consensus on the approach to be used?
How do these figures need to be updated as methods evolve?
Chairperson
Ben Marston, Director - Jestico + Whiles
Speakers
Alex Benstead, Senior Advisor - UKGBC
Johanna Jarvinen, Business Development Manager - One Click LCA
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Timber for Retrofit and Extensions
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Deep retrofit of commercial buildings often aims to increase useable floor area whilst maintain the existing structure. Timber is a lightweight structural material whose additional load can frequently be added to existing buildings without the need to upgrade existing structure especially the foundations. Key protagonists of such projects give an introduction to what you need to know drawing from their wide experience.
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
UK Green Taxonomy: Update and Q&A
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
The UK Green Taxonomy is intended to provide a common framework for investments that can be defined as environmentally sustainable. It is an opportunity for the UK to set a high bar globally with a rigorous, science-based taxonomy that helps accelerate green finance and support the UK’s transition to a net zero economy.
The Green Taxonomy Advisory Group provide an update on progress since last year and answer all your questions about its’ implications once implemented.
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Commercial Buildings in Timber
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Mass timber structure is being used for larger and more ambitious commercial buildings than ever before.
In this session we ask what has changed to enable the use of timber in these buildings and chart a possible trajectory for the growth of timber as a carbon-negative structural material in the commercial sector.
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Breakfast Briefing: The Future is Timber with Built By Nature
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Developers seeking to adopt timber on increasingly large and complex schemes are joining forces with architects devising inventive methods of biobased construction. This Breakfast Briefing will spotlight projects by three Built by Nature Frontrunners, using timber and biobased materials for low-carbon health, housing and commercial development.
Built by Nature is a network and grant fund with a mission for our built environment to work in closer unity with nature through the increased use of timber and biobased materials. Our frontrunner network brings together organisations that are leading the way, adopting these low-carbon materials on developments and collaborating to create an unstoppable movement that is transforming the way that buildings are constructed.
Anna-Lisa McSweeney from White Arkitekter will speak about the practice’s proposed design for the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, which aims to be the UK’s “most sustainable hospital” when completed. Turning to commercial buildings, Alexia Laird will present Landsec’s Timber Square in Southwark, central London; a 14-storey partial retrofit and vertical extension that looks set to create a new precedent for urban commercial development in the UK. Kelly Harrison from Whitby Wood will show us how we can build on top of our cities with timber, retrofitting existing buildings and vertically extending them, creating additional floor space and storing carbon on top of our existing built environment.
Finally, Andy Tugby from Human Nature will talk about the developer’s plans for the Phoenix industrial estate in Lewes, where they have employed a phalanx of the UK’s most renowned architects to transform this brownfield site into the country’s largest timber residential development, a car-free mixed-use utopia set against the backdrop of the South Downs National Park.
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
NABERS UK is becoming the rating of choice for property owners to measure and improve the energy performance of buildings. A number of industry bodies in the UK have acknowledged the critical role NABERS UK will play in delivering Net Zero and have since incorporated it within their own standards and guidance.
- What sets NABERS UK apart?
- How are property owners, lenders and investors using NABERS UK to drive and finance change?
- Do we need a cultural shift to roll out NABERS UK at scale and what will assist the transition?
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Procurement sets the scene for Decarbonisation via a Circular Economy
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Despite advances in circularity in some supply chains generally that has been little change in procurement behaviour. We examine what this needs to look like to support the introduction of circularity into construction supply chains covering:
- How does circular procurement differ between Tier 1 and Tier 2 contracting?
- What are the procurement clauses required to support it?
- How do we move from a minimum standard to an optimum standard of circularity?
- What lessons learned from the public sector can be transferred?