Built environment monthly webinar - Building performance evaluation

Recorded: 24 November 2021 (12:00 - 13:00 UK time)

What’s this webinar about?

Whether your interest lies in knowing how a building performs in order to improve its efficiency, learn its impact on the wellbeing of users, or check for any discrepancy between the intended environmental performance and the performance in use – this webinar helps you get up to speed on a new standard for conducting consistent building performance evaluations.

Who is this webinar for?

• Evaluators/reviewers of building performance
• Owners of buildings and building portfolios
• Clients commissioning the design and construction of a new building or building refit/retrofit (whether public and private sector)
• Housing developers and social housing providers
• Specifiers of products used in retrofit work
• Retrofit coordinators
• Designers of retrofit work
• Architects
• Surveyors
• Providers of property finance

What will participants gain?

• Brief background on the origins of BS 40101
• First-hand information on the aims and content of BS 40101 from its technical authors
• The opportunity to participate in a Q&A with the technical authors of BS 40101

Agenda

12:00 - 12:05 Welcome and background to CB/401 and RSTG - Rosie Harper, Lead Standards Development Manager | Build Environment, British Standards Institution (BSI)

12:05 - 12:15 Introduction from Building Performance Network - Professor Fionn Stevenson, Campaigns Director, Building Performance Network

12:15 - 12:30 Background to the standard: how it came to be and what it aims to do - Kerry Mashford OBE, panel chair of CB/401/-1 and co-author of BS 40101

12:30 - 12:45 Finer details of the content - Zachary Gill, Building performance expert, SOAP Retrofit Ltd and Technical author of BS 40101

12:45 - 13:00 Live Q&A

13:00 End of the webinar

For unique insights into the new building performance evaluation standard, and why and how it standardizes BPE, please watch this webinar now.

Rosie Harper is a Lead Standards Development Manager at BSI with responsibility for a number of committees focusing on sustainable construction, including those relating to energy performance and retrofit.

She is the Committee Manager for CB/401 which is the new technical committee set up to oversee work in the area of retrofitting energy efficiency measures, including BS 40101 on Building Performance Evaluation.

Fionn Stevenson holds a Chair in Sustainable Design at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture and is Campaigns Director for the Building Performance Network. Her research and consultancy work focuses on developing innovative methods of building performance evaluation in relation to occupancy feedback and social learning in order to improve building design. She is particularly interested in the relationship between buildings and people from a holistic perspective which includes ecosystems and resource use in its widest dimension. Her focus is on housing. She advises various government bodies and NGOs and has over 120 publications to date.

Dr Kerry Mashford is a mechanical and manufacturing engineer by background and has worked for many years in sustainable manufacturing and construction, energy transition and circular economy. Kerry initiated and led Innovate UK’s Building Performance Evaluation programme which began in 2009 and carried this interest into her role as Chief Executive of the National Energy Foundation from 2012 to 2018. Recently she has served as a member of the Transforming Construction Challenge Advisory Group; of Cadent Gas Customer Engagement Group; was a Private Sector Board Member and the Board Energy Champion of SEMLEP and led on the Measurement, Monitoring and Verification workstream of Each Home Counts. For BSI she is a member of the Retrofit Standards Task Group; Technical Committee CB401 and is Panel Chair and co-author of CB401-01 creating the new Building Performance Evaluation standard BS40101. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2017 for her services to energy and the built environment.

Dr Zachary Gill (EngD, CEng, CMVP, Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination) is a building performance expert, working and challenging the field of low-energy domestic buildings for over 13 years. He undertook his academically commended PhD research on the contribution of user behaviours to building performance with Buro Happold Engineers. Subsequently, he worked with Willmott Dixon Energy Services, pioneering performance-feedback approaches, in particular on their wide-scale social housing retrofit schemes

In 2019, Zack established his own building performance consultancy, SOAP Retrofit Ltd, to continue championing real-world measurement techniques and developing science-based retrofit approaches. He is also co-authoring the forthcoming British Standard on Building Performance Evaluation.

Two core mantras drive Zack and SOAP’s work:

1. "You can't manage what you can't measure"
2. "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't"

BSI is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with this webinar contributing to Goal 3 on good health and well-being, Goal 7 on affordable and clean energy, Goal 9 on industry, innovation and resilient infrastructure, Goal 12 on responsible consumption and production, and Goal 13 on climate action.