The Built Environment Sector’s journey to Net Zero

Recorded: 19 January 2021 (13:00 - 15:30 UK time)

What’s this webinar about?
This session considers some of the tools and approaches currently available to help the built environment sector achieve net zero. It:

• Provides an update on the energy efficiency parts of the English Building Regulations, primarily for new homes but also non-domestic and existing buildings
• Considers the importance of energy efficiency retrofit to our existing building stock and in the light of the Government’s latest Green Home Grant initiative
• Explains one way to manage whole life carbon when delivering infrastructure
• Explores other policy responses and tools that might help the sector meet its targets
• Explores the interfaces with other relevant sectors, such as energy supply, to ensure a robust and aligned approach to net zero

Who is this webinar for?

• Architects and designers
• Engineers
• Energy advisors and consultants
• Product specifiers
• Home builders
• Product manufactures
• Installers and small builders
• Building control bodies
• Housing associations

What will participants gain?

• The opportunity to hear first-hand where the sector is collectively at in relation to achieving net zero
• The opportunity to receive updates on key policy, regulatory and voluntary approaches available to help achieve net zero in the sector
• The opportunity to hear about the role that current standards (PAS 2030, 2035 and 2080) and upcoming standards (PAS 2038) can play in helping achieve net zero
• The opportunity to ask questions of our experts
• A post-event copy of all presentations and a recording of the webinar

Agenda

Introductions & scene set  - Anthony Burd, Associate Director and Head of Built Environment, BSI – National Standards Body

Part L (Energy) - Building Regulations Update - Gavin Dunn, Chief Executive, Chartered Association of Building Engineers and Chair, BRAC Part L Working Group for new dwellings

The need for Energy Efficiency Retrofit and the role of PAS 2030, 2035 & 2038 - Peter Rickaby - Energy and Sustainability Consultant - Principal Research Associate and Business Manager, UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings, University College London (UCL) and Technical Director, The Retrofit Academy Centre of Excellence

Managing Carbon in infrastructure and the role of PAS 2080 - Maria Manidaki, Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor, Mott MacDonald

Round table discussion

End of the webinar - Anthony Burd, Associate Director and Head of Built Environment, BSI – National Standards Body

Ant heads up the Built Environment Sector team at the National Standards Body. In addition to providing subject matter expertise and thought leadership he also oversees the identification of new areas of research, standardization and supporting product needs, via engagement with key stakeholders from across government and the wider sector. He also oversees the promotion of the standards portfolio to national and international marketplaces.

A Chartered building surveyor and engineer by background, he has more than 32 years’ experience working in the sector, having worked as both an enforcer, and for 16 years was the UK fire regulator and then head of technical policy for the English Building Regulations. Ant has considerable experience in working directly for UK government ministers and representing the UK at European Commission level on construction related discussions and negotiations.

Ant is a full member of the Government’s statutory Building Regulations Advisory Committee and is Immediate Past President of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers. 

Originally trained as an Architect, Gavin initially practised in North America with a large construction engineering firm before returning to the UK to specialise in the energy and environmental performance of buildings in 1998. Gavin advanced this specialism through positions at the Welsh School of Architecture, and Elmhurst Energy, where he helped develop some of Europe’s leading building energy certification and labelling systems. In 2013 Gavin was appointed Director of Building Performance at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) where he was responsible for a portfolio of BRE's globally leading services including BREEAM and CEEQUAL the world’s foremost environmental assessment methods for the built environment.

In 2018, Gavin was appointed as Chief Executive of CABE where he works to help enable a more professional construction sector that works to create better, safer and more sustainable buildings that enhance people’s lives.

Gavin has been a member of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC) of the UK Government since 2015 where he currently serves as Chairman of the Future Homes Standard Working Group.

Dr Peter Rickaby helps to run the UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings (UKCMB) at University College London.  Before joining UKCMB he spent 35 years as an energy and sustainability consultant, working for the building and housing industries throughout the UK and across the EU.  Peter was a member of the Each Home Counts Implementation Board, where he was co-lead (with Clare Price of BSI) on technical standards for retrofit.  Peter chairs the BSI's Retrofit Standards Task Group and is Technical Author of the UK's new domestic retrofit standards PAS 2035 Retrofitting Dwellings for Improved Energy Efficiency and PAS 2038 Retrofitting Non-Domestic Buildings for Energy Efficiency.

Maria is Mott MacDonald’s Global Technical Lead for Net Zero. She is responsible for co-ordinating cross-discipline skills required for helping clients meet their net zero carbon ambitions. She has been recently leading a number of strategic net zero carbon and carbon management projects in the UK, such as the Water UK Net Zero Carbon Roadmap, New Zealand Watercare’s carbon baseline, UAE’s first asset owner for embedding PAS 2080 amongst others.

She is a chartered Engineer with 17 years experience in investment planning, design, carbon and asset management in the water industry. Maria has been specialising in carbon management, including energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and carbon reduction across the infrastructure value chain. Her experience has been mainly targeted at water utilities and regulators advising on good practices, asset management strategies, business case development and technical assessments/due diligence of their investment plans.

Maria is a member of the UK Green Construction Board, Infrastructure Working Group and has co-authored the Infrastructure Carbon Review and PAS 2080: Carbon Management in Infrastructure. She is a visiting lecturer on Low Carbon and Net Zero Infrastructure at Cranfield University, UK. She is a technical advisor on Net Zero in a number of industry forums including the Institution of Civil Engineers Carbon Project.