Sustainable Refurbishment of the UK Building Stock : Challenges and Opportunities

Organiser: 
ICSF ( Innovative Construction Skills Forum)
Venue: 
WMCCE, 5th Floor Embassy House, Birmingham
Date: 
11th Mar 2010
Time: 
08:15am
Summary: 

To assist individuals deal with the challenges relating to the reducing carbon emissions in the existing building stock the ICSF has set up a series of breakfast sessions to help to raise awareness, improve understanding of the problems and solutions for successful building refurbishment.

The Innovative Construction Skills Forum is funded by ConstructionSkills with the aim of understanding changing design and contracting processes and providing practical advice to upskill contractors and designers.

This breakfast briefing will allow you to:

  • To learn more about the UK's refurbishment challenge
  • Identify the opportunities that this presents
  • To understand how to refurbish sustainable
  • Assist in understanding the practical issues relating to refurbishmen
  • Ask those fundamental question
  • To understand where to go for more information and advic

Programme
08.15 - Registration and Networking Breakfast
08.45 - Welcome / Introduction and brief overview of ICSF presented by Alistair Collin, Construction Skills
09.00 - Sustainable refurbishment – an introduction presented by Richard Hartless, BRE
09.30 - 'Sustainable refurbishment - The practitioner’s view' presented by Paul Davies, Wates Living Space
10.10 - Discussion
10.30 - Finish

For more information and to book online please click here.

Fee: 
£75 + vat (payable in advance)
Contact: 

Sue Rogers
(E) rogerss@bre.co.uk