Eco Space - the final frontier?

Friday 28th March 9 am - 1pm

Bath and West Showground

The aim of the conference is to stimulate new thinking  about how the building and landscape professions rise to  the challenge of creating liveable spaces using the most up-to-date range of sustainable materials and techniques on offer whilst considering the importance of climate change and approaching peak oil production.

The speakers will explore what sustainable living spaces might look like and, drawing on exemplars from around the world, explain how lower impact building and landscaping techniques can create genuinely sustainable and liveable spaces.

The conference will feature presentations and discussions on sustainability in architecture and landscaping followed by a ‘question time’ format with eminent professionals and decision makers.
The conference is aimed at practitioners, decision makers and enthusiasts within the planning, architectural, landscaping and garden design industries.

(Lunch and pass to Homes for Good Exhibition included in fee)

For more details and booking form click here.

CO2mmunity Heroes

10 am – 1pm Saturday 29th March,

    Bath and West Showground

(with locally produced lunch to follow and free pass to the Homes for Good exhibition)

• Have you been involved with your community in helping to make it a better place now and future generations?

• Have you been a catalyst for making positive changes in your neighbourhood?

• Have you made ecological and sustainable improvements to your home or lifestyle and want to get involved in helping the wider community?

Then come and celebrate the finale to our Community Choices for Sustainable Living project, which Ecos Trust (formerly STSD), DA21 and DSBI have been running for the past 3 years, funded by DEFRA’s Environmental Action Fund.

This event in an opportunity to tell others about your project as well as hear about others with a chance to network and build on your experiences and desires to make your community a sustainable one.

This event is free to attend and has been kindly sponsored by Somerset County Council’s Rising to the Challenge Campaign.

Please book early as places are limited, click here for flier and booking form.

If you would like to present your project at this event, please contact cara@ecostrsut.org.uk

 

Make Mine an Eco Home

Date: 16th November, 10am - 5pm

Venue: Great Bow Wharf, Langport

This practical training day shows you how to make your house a healthier place to live, more energy efficient and improve it without costing the earth.

The two tutors are national experts on sustainable products and energy efficient design: David Barton is a Director of Impetus Consulting and Cara Naden (BA Hons Eco Design) is Ecos Trust's regional co-ordinator for the Community Choices for Sustainable Living project.

Course Structure -

Refurbishment and interior design – sustainable interior design projects to improve your home, how you use the space, new layouts and energy efficient design.

Generating your own energy – the renewable power options from mini wind turbines to combined heat and power.

Save it – getting right the basics of energy efficiency and water saving – no-cost and low-cost measures.

Sustainable materials – the use of recycled and re-used materials and natural products as an ulternative to petrochemical based products.

Creating a healthy interior – the paints, flooring and finishes that create a healthy internal environment .

Full course notes and work books are included in the
training package. A PDF version of the presentation is available here.

For further details please see booking form (pdf or word)

Meeting the CO2- Operative Challenge! Time to take action

Ecos trust and the co-op membership   with DSBI and DA21 are working together for this one day event (free)

20th October at Genesis, Somerset College  of Arts and Technology 10.00 am - 3.30 pm

Are you concerned about climate change

and want to do something to help reduce

your impact?

Do you want to help your community  to

get active in making changes that

will conserve energy, reduce CO2 and pollution?

Then come to this event where you will be able to meet with people who are making these changes

and find out ways you can get involved............

 

Renewable Energy - Policy and Practice

On site renewables will soon be required for all new developments – Are you ready?!

Date –  tbc

Time  - 9.30am to 1.00pm

Venue - Council Chamber, South Somerset District Council, Brympton Way, Yeovil

A half-day seminar to learn about the new “Merton” policy on renewable energy in new developments in South Somerset.

The seminar will hear from district council planners and local developers on how the policy is to be implemented and results of its first use in the district. 

The event will also show how different technologies can be used to achieve the required level of renewable energy generation and discuss the response to the move to zero carbon homes as set out by government.

This seminar will bring together policy makers, developers, surveyors and architects to show how these issues are being addressed in practice.

Audience

• Private sector developers
• Building professionals – surveyors, contractors, architects
• Housing Association development managers and Board members
• Local authority  spatial planners  development control and building control officers
• County and District Councillors
• Regeneration and development consultants

Supported by

SSDC

Ecos Trust

Delegate fee - £50 including lunch

 

For further info please call Cara on 01458 259400 or email cara@ecostrust.org.uk

 

 

 

Archived Seminars:

From Rhetoric to Reality -

Date: September 26th

Venue: Genesis Centre, Somerset College of   Art      & Technology

Time: 9.30am - 5.30pm

Fee: £90 + VAT

This conference will bring together policy makers, developers, surveyors, local planners and architects to understand the new policy and show how these issues are being addressed in practice.

The conference will discuss and attempt to clarify “Zero Carbon” with developers, designers and policy makers with local example(s) of first attempts.

The event will cover the different design solutions and technologies available to achieve the required level of energy efficiency and renewable energy generation, and discuss the regional and local policy changes that will steer the move towards zero carbon homes as set out by government.

 

Audience:

• Private sector developers
• Building professionals – surveyors, contractors, architects, technicians, estate agents, builders
• Housing Association development managers and Board members
• Local authority, policy planners, development control and building control officers
• County and District Councillors
• Regeneration and development consultants

Topics covered:

• The definition of zero carbon construction
• Design and construction for ultra low energy in use buildings
• What renewable energy technologies will be used
• The time scale to build to zero carbon standards
• Case studies and examples of zero carbon building

Speakers include:

• Stephen Ward, Faber Maunsell
• Neil May, Good Homes Alliance  & Natural Building Technologies
• Nick Backhouse, Eco Exmoor renewable energy
• Kim Slowe, Cornhill Estates
• Charles Couzens, Ecos Homes
• Jane Lavick, Regional Assembly
• Tom Woolley, Eco Architect and Proffesor of Architecture, Queens University, Belfast
• Sara Turnball, Centre  for Alternative Technology  - Zero Carbon Britan

 

For copies of the presentations click on  their names.

Sustainable Building - the good, the bad and the reality

11 October 10am - 4.30pm
The Eden Project, Cornwall
Cost £90 incl VAT

A joint Cornwall Sustainable Building Trust, Devon Sustainable Building Initiative, RIBA SW & University of Plymouth conference.

Recent years have seen a dramatic boom in

interest in sustainable design and construction.

Driven by factors including increasing concern about environmental issues, such as climate change, and rising energy prices, sustainable construction has entered the mainstream.

This conference will bring together leading practitioners of sustainable construction from the South West and beyond to share their experience and knowledge with you based on real-life sustainable case studies.

For further information or to book visit: www.architecture.com/go/Events/Events_2488.html

 

Sustainable Refurbishment

 

Wednesday 25th January 2006

The CREATE Centre, Bristol

A one-day conference on refurbishment for: housing associations, housing managers, property maintenance contractors, architects, designers, HECA officers and property owners.

Covering:

• ques and materials to achieve practical sustainable refurbishment for public and private housing and offices buildings
• links to private sector renewal, fuel poverty and cli

• design issues
• technimate change

Key speakers include:

• Penney Poyzer from BBC2 "No Waste Like Home" who is experienced in sustainable refurbishment with her Architect husband.
• The planner and architect from the Tardis Terrace refurbishment development in Preston.
• BRE's SMARTWaste
• Architecton Architects on restoring listed buildings
• And more case studies including Sustaining Tower Blocks

Cost:  £165 inc VAT

Some consessions available - download flier and booking form (on the right) for further information.

Presentations from the conference can be downloaded.

Click on the required links below.

40% House Project (640 KB)

Sustaining Tower Blocks (10.2 MB)

BRE SMARTWaste (1.8 MB)

Nottingham Refurbishment (5.5 MB)

 

Tardis Terrace - (Adactus Website)

 

Energy Technologies in New Developments - Meeting New Policy Challenges in Today’s Market

 

Tuesday 27th September 2005

 

Xfi Conference Centre, University of Exeter

 

A one-day seminar for senior executives and professionals involved in the design, approval and construction of new developments, covering the latest issues in energy and climate change.

Covering:

• current and emerging policy
• case studies of developments that have successfully integrated policy requirements.
• strategies and use of new energy technologies

 

Cost: £190 inc VAT

See DSBI website for seminar notes.