Energy efficiency and sustainability in traditional buildings - This event has already finished
A one day conference looking at current pressures, ongoing research and related matters
24 March 2010 - The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NE.
This conference will present recent developments and research projects by Historic Scotland and other organisations.
Specialist speakers will outline government policy drivers, embodied energy considerations, materials supply, current and ongoing energy efficiency projects and the training needed to sustain and develop the refurbishment sector.
To book a place at this event, please complete and return this form (1 form per delegate), with your preferred details to:
Post: Technical Conservation Group, G33, Historic Scotland, Longmore House, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1SH
Fax: 0131 668 8669
Email: bernadette.shevlin@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Phone: 0131 668 8683
Programme :
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Keynote address - Ruth Parsons, Chief Executive, Historic Scotland
10.10 Background to Historic Scotland's work and approach - David Mitchell, Director Technical Conservation Group, Historic Scotland10.20 Housing and climate change - David Fotheringham, Scottish Government, Housing and Regeneration Directorate
10.40 SUST and their approach to housing - Lori McElroy, Director SUST
10.55 Introduction to Historic Scotland's embodied energy work - Craig Kennedy, Historic Scotland11.00 Embodied energy of traditional buildings - Mike Beners-Lee and Gary White, Crichton Carbon Centre
11.20 Coffee break
11.50 The embodied energy of building stone - Suzy Goodsir, SIS Tech
12.10 A sustainable template for quarrying - Colin Tennant, Scottish Stone Liason Group
12.30 Discussions and questions - Chaired by Roger Curtis, Historic Scotland
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Planning considerations - Jim MacDonald, Deputy Chief Inspector, Historic Scotland
13.50 Building Standards research into the nondomestic sector - Stuart Watson, Building Standards Division, Scottish Government14.10 Historic Scotland research work in the domestic sector - Moses Jenkins, Historic Scotland
14.30 Changeworks windows trial - Nicholas Heath, Changeworks
14.50 Coffee break
15.10 Further options on building fabric upgrades - Jessica Snow, Historic Scotland
15.30 What about skills? - Phil Ford, Future Skills Project, Construction Skills
15.50 Discussions and questions - Chaired by Roger Curtis, Historic Scotland
16.10 Close