Passivhaus Affiliate

Passivhaus enters the Mainstream

Date: 25 June 2014 Time: 09.00 - 16.30
Location: 1 Birdcage Walk, London, United Kingdom, SW1H 9JJ Cost: Various

Passivhaus is an engineering approach to the low energy design of buildings giving a far better operational performance than required by current Building Regulations.

The Institution’s Passivhaus seminar will provide you with details on specific projects underway in the UK and discuss how creating beautiful, energy efficient, comfortable and affordable buildings requires an integrated design approach.Hear case studies of completed and ongoing projects including the largest Passivhaus development in the UK: a 12,000m2 medical teaching building for the University of Leicester.This essential seminar will help you learn about the “performance gap” between design aspirations and construction, not only in terms of energy but also comfort performance.

Programme:

09.00  REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS 
09.30 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
09:35

REVIEW OF MAJOR (LARGE SCALE) UK PASSIVHAUS PROJECTS

Kym Mead, Associate Director, Passivhaus Trust

10.00

SCHOOLS AND LARGE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS

Jonathan Hines, Director, Architype/Archihaus

The rationale and logic of Passivhaus as an economic solution for mainstream construction in the UK to deliver buildings that work and perform as they should, as evidenced by:

  • The delivery of the UK’s first four Passivhaus schools
  • The delivery of the UK’s first Passivhaus archive building andthe UK’s first Passivhaus university building
  • The progress of a new Passivhaus housing development company
10:25

NEW LONDON PASSIVHAUS SCHOOL PROJECT AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE

Speaker TBA, Bougyes Construction

10:50

SPEAKER Q&A PANEL

Kym Mead, Associate Director, Passivhaus Institute, Jonathan Hines, Architipe/Archihaus, Speaker TBA, Bougyes Construction

11.00 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:20

PASSIVHAUS PUBLIC HOUSING - AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Chris Parsons, Parsons and Whittley

  • Methodology and design principles
  • Energy and comfort
  • Costs and payback; housing market anomalies
11.45

PASSIVHAUS PUBLIC HOUSING - THE ECOTECH BUILD SYSTEM: DELIVERING AFFORDABLE PASSIVE HOUSING

Mark Bradbury, Climate Energy Homes

  • offsite manufacturing the solution to affordable Passivhaus?
  • The ecoTECH build system
  • Case study: Rainham Passivhaus for Circle Housing
12:10

LARGE PASSIVHAUS BUILDINGS - UEA ENTERPRISE CENTRE PHPP/BREEAM, EMBODIED CARBON AND LOCAL SOURCING

Benedict Binns, Programme Manager, University of East Anglia

  • Client brief
  • Winning tender
  • Risks and challenges of Passivhaus
  • Update on build
12:45

SPEAKER Q&A PANEL

Chris Parsons, Parsons and Whittley•Mark Bradbury, Climate Energy Homes•Benedict Binns, University of East Anglia

 13.00  NETWORKING LUNCH
 14.00

MAINTAINING PASSIVHAUS QUALITY AND SUCCESS AS THE INDUSTRY EXPANDS - LOW ENERGY BUILDING PRACTICE

Sally Godber, Director, WARM

  • What is the “performance gap” between design aspirations and construction, not only in terms of energy but also comfort performance? How buildings usually fail and the key principals required to minimise the gap.
  • What Passivhaus does to address these issues; modelling of low energy buildings during the design, robust construction techniques and certification procedure.
  • What problems large scale construction brings to Passivhaus in the UK; in particular how we maintain quality at scale: skilling up a greater workforce and getting suitable products into the market are key to this.
 14.25

MAINTAINING PASSIVHAUS QUALITY AND SUCCESS AS THE INDUSTRY EXPANDS - ENGINEERING DESIGN FOR BUILDINGS

Nick Grant, Freelance Passivhaus consultant, Principal of Elementals Solutions, Technical Director of the Passivhaus Trust

  • Creating beautiful energy efficient, comfortable and affordable buildings requires an integrated design approach with the whole team engaged in the creative process.
  • Building engineers need to reclaim their role as designers not as technicians tasked with stopping ironic bridges from wobbling.
  • Similarly Architects need to embrace the constraints imposed by the laws of nature.
 14.50

MAINTAINING PASSIVHAUS QUALITY AND SUCCESS AS THE INDUSTRY EXPANDS - LARGE NON-DOMESTIC PASSIVHAUS

Stephen Ball, Director of Sustainability, Couch Perry and Wilkes (CPW)

  • CPW: Zero Carbon Roadmap and how Passivhaus design slots in.
  • Case study: 12,000m2 Medical Teaching Building for the University of Leicester – largest Passivhaus development in the UK.
  • Passivhaus pros and cons – What’s good, what’s not so good.
 15.15

SPEAKER Q&A PANEL

Sally Godber, Director, WARM, Nick Grant, Freelance Passivhaus consultant, Principal of Elementals Solutions, Technical Director of the Passivhaus Trust, Stephen Ball, Director of Sustainability, Couch Perry and Wilkes

 15.25  NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
 15.45

VENTILATION OF HIGH THERMALLY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS - ASSESSMENT OF MVHR INSTALLATIONS

Michael Swainson, Principal Engineer, BRE/NHBC

  • Mech Vent, Nat Vent and air tight buildings
  • Experience of MVHRs in the UK
  • The way forward for the UK
 16.10 CLOSING REMARKS
 16.30

END OF SEMINAR


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costs:

Institution of Mechanical Engineers member £283.80 + VAT

Supporting organisation member £283.80 + VAT

Non-member £356.50 + VAT

Student/retired £104.50 + VAT

 

Further Information:

Institution of Mechanical Engineers


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