Background

The construction industry has witnessed a significant rise in the use of Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) technology for the erection of both residential and commercial buildings.
SIPs construction provides very thermally efficient buildings with a much improved air tightness, contributing significantly to energy conservation, carbon reduction and provides excellent performance when assessed against the Code for Sustainable Homes.
It is against this backdrop and the growing use of SIP technology in the UK that the UK SIP Association has announced a Low Carbon Homes Conference and Exhibition on 15th June 2010 at Millennium Point in Birmingham.

The speaker line-up includes:

• Tracy Gordon - Exemplar Programme Manager - Homes & Communities Agency
• Rob Pannell - Head of House Building - Zero Carbon Hub
• Martin Aust - Strategy & Development Director - Flagship Housing Association
• Jon Boon - Partner - Ingleton Wood Architects
• Peter Head - Managing Director - Osborne Homes

A series of Case Study presentations will also be delivered by Members of the UK SIP Association.

To REGISTER visit; www.uksips.org/events or email; events@uksips.org

Programme

08.30   Registration & refreshments

09.20   Andrew Orriss – Chairman – UK SIP Association – welcome address

09.30   Keynote - Tracy Gordon – Exemplar Programme Manager – Homes & Communities Agency – policy, funding, eco-towns, low carbon delivery and demand – HCA strategy and influences going forward.

09.50   Rob Pannell – Head of House Building – Zero Carbon Hub – towards 2016 - understanding the challenges, issues and opportunities involved in developing, building and marketing your low and zero carbon homes.

10.10   Martin Aust – Strategy & Development Director - Flagship Housing Association - why SIPS technology has a key role to play in place shaping, partnerships and asset investment within the delivery of 750 homes per annum for Flagship Group and partner housing associations.

10.30   Q&A session

10.40   Refreshments & networking

10.10   Jon Boon – Partner - Ingleton Wood Architects – taking an holistic view - how to achieve good design in the delivery of low carbon homes by integrating ecological design and sustainability considerations into schemes that make sense economically.

11.30   Peter Head – Managing Director - Osborne Homes – a 10 year journey in the development and deployment of SIPS technology within the UK affordable housing market - the first to deliver affordable Level 5 CSH dwellings.

11.50   Q&A session

12.00   Lunch & networking

13.00   Case studies – latest and most innovative SIP technology applications in the residential sector:

• Hanham Hall – zero carbon village - near Bristol - CSH Level 6 200 units - Simon Toplis - HTA Architects & Paul Newman - Kingspan Potton
• Brandevoort – new town consisting of 1500 houses – near Eindhoven - Mike Ormesher & Arjan van Gils – Unidek
• Residential schemes - design for manufacture and assembly - getting it right - Jeff Tomlinson - Innovare Systems & Pete Blunt - I-S Manufacturing

14.30   Q&A session

14.40   Andrew Orriss – summary of the day

14.45   Refreshments & networking

15.30   Event close