The Green Register of Construction Professionals

The Green Register's NEW Sustainable Building and Services Masterclasses provide an ideal opportunity to learn about subjects that are relevant to your profession and skills at an advanced level.

Choose from a variety of different topics on this one-day course:

• Plumbing for Architects Part 1 - an overview of the main types of plumbing and heating systems in domestic and small commercial situations including core sustainable solutions - Cath Hassell, ech2o
• Plumbing for Architects Part 2 - an overview of the main types of plumbing and heating systems in domestic and small commercial situations including core sustainable solutions - Cath Hassell, ech2o
  
• Sustainability standards, turning conflicts into synergies - demands of policy and planning often result in conflicts between specific sustainable housing standards and clients requirements - how can we reduce or remove the conflicts? - Phil Neve, Aaben
• Eco-retrofit of historic dwellings - solutions and conflicts - looking at some of the issues raised when carrying out eco-retrofits to older houses including cost versus carbon savings - Lucy Pedler, The Green Register
• Meeting or exceeding Part L 2013 for residential properties -
  Part L of the Building Regulations is due to be revised in 2013 but have the proposed changes gone far enough and do they truly address climate change? - Lucy Pedler, The Green Register
• The Passivhaus standard and its wider use in low energy low carbon house design - looking at the Passivhaus design principles and selected parts of the PHPP tool - Phil Neve, Aaben
• Best practice detailing for eco-refurbishments - taking a good hard look at some of the details that can compromise eco-refurbishments - Lucy Pedler, The Green Register
• Implementing sustainable water solutions into a design
  shows the step by step process to redesign a dwelling to really address sustainable water - Cath Hassell, ech2o

NEW - RIBA Advanced CPD status
When this course is combined with our existing 2-day Sustainable Building & Services course these 3 days of training form our new 3-day Sustainable Building & Services course which has been awarded RIBA Advanced CPD status. Advanced CPD refers to specialisms or demonstrable expertise which an architect could use to market to clients or employers, as career development, or to be on a specialist list.

Quick route to RIBA Advanced CPD status!
If you have already attended our 2-day course Sustainable Building & Services course then you only need to book onto this course to give yourself RIBA Advanced CPD status.

The 3-day course has also been assigned the following topics from the RIBA CPD Core Curriculum:
• Compliance – legal, regulatory and statutory framework and processes
• Designing and building it – structural design, construction, technology and engineering
• Climate – sustainable architecture
• Context - the historic environment and its setting

SPECIAL OFFERS

Book our 2-day Sustainable Building & Services course at the same time and save over £70!
Book all 3 days at a special rate of £299 (£250 for members) for the 3 days. Book your place online as normal and we will apply the discount once your booking is received.

Book 3 places for the price of 2!
Book 3 places and get the 3rd place free. Book your places online as normal and we will deduct the cost of the 3rd place once your booking is received.

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THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED

The next Sustainable Building & Services Masterclass 1-day course takes place on 10 May in London and 22 May in Bristol - please see our events page for details.

Is the building you are designing or retrofitting:

• traditionally built or a protected structure?
• to feature a solid wall or unventilated roof buildup?
• tall or in an area of strong winds?
• damp or considered problematic?
• to be fitted with internal wall insulation?
• to be made very airtight and highly insulated?
• to feature timber in vulnerable positions, like joist ends?

If you are concerned about interstitial condensation, mould or rot then you need to evaluate the risks with WUFI® Pro!

This two-day course, the first of its kind to be held in London, provides a practical, hands-on introduction to WUFI® Pro ‘hygrothermal’ numerical simulation. It is the world leading simulation software for understanding the risk of interstitial condensation, mould, rot and freeze-thaw in buildings.

Both days of training include hands-on workshops using the software, and you will get the full version of the WUFI® Pro software with an 8-week temporary licence, as well as access to support on the online WUFI® Forum for that period.

What can WUFI® do for you?
WUFI® Pro software allows the realistic simulation of the hourly hygrothermal behaviour of multiple-layered wall and roof systems. It predicts how heat and moisture transfer through the building fabric and what effects can occur when the buildup is exposed to realistic external and internal climate conditions. These effects include:

• drying time of construction moisture
• possible condensation problems
• water absorption due to driving rain
• moisture influence on thermal performance
• long-term hygrothermal consequences of retrofit strategies
• even mould growth in the building can be predicted using this model

If you want to ensure that moisture will not build up in your design over time, this software will calculate the contributions from rain, solar radiation, other crucial weather events and internal conditions on an hourly basis, along with the physical properties of specific building materials.

WUFI® Pro is one of only two numerical simulation tools validated under BS EN 15026, the standard for hygrothermal numerical simulation software. It has particular relevance for those focused on insulation retrofits of solid wall construction, roof buildups, buildings in exposed conditions and conditions that can stress the building fabric (such as failures or leakage).

In BS 5250(2011), the Code of Practice for Control of Condensation in Buildings, it states clearly that the common but old-fashioned ‘Glaser’ or dew point assessments cannot assess the impact of:

• buildings in ‘service conditions’ (i.e. real buildings in real locations)
• short-term weather events (like driving rain and freeze thaw)
• air leakage
• hygroscopic materials (like brick, plaster, timber and many insulants)
• orientation
• construction moisture
• material characteristics that vary (depending on changes in moisture or temperature etc.)

You can assess all these problem conditions with WUFI® Pro.

Topics discussed will include the vocabulary and fundamentals of building physics, practical examples with WUFI® Pro, interpretation of results, the market context for WUFI® in the UK, and a review of completed case studies. Attendees will learn how to input a wall or roof, its orientation and location, and run simulations on different configurations.

Who should attend?
The workshop is open to all building professionals, e.g. architects, engineers, surveyors, insulation suppliers, system manufacturers, builders and anyone with a focus on fabric performance. No previous experience with the WUFI® Pro software is required.

Trainers

Joseph Little, BArch, MSc Arch. AEES
Joseph Little is the principal of Joseph Little Architects and Building Life Consultancy. He graduated from the UCD School of Architecture in 1996 and from the Graduate School of the Environment at the Centre for Alternative Technology in 2008. Joseph set-up his own practice in 2003 when he realised that his passion for low energy, environmental building design could only be realised outside of mainstream architectural practices and launched Building Life Consultancy in February 2009. Joseph’s consultancy has recently held WUFI® hygrothermal training in Glasgow, Leeds and Dublin with Fraunhofer IBP and thermal bridge training in Dublin. Historic Scotland released ‘Technical Paper 15’ in Summer 2012 which is a significant report by Little, and colleague Calina Ferraro, on hygrothermal simulation and internal insulation retrofits in Scotland.

Christian Bludau, Dipl.-ing
Christian Bludau is a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Department for Hygrothermics, in Germany. Christian received his Diploma in Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany in 2001. After his studies he worked as research assistant at the Institute for Building Materials and the Institute for Structural Engineering at the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich. He has worked as researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics since 2005 and from 2011 he has held a lectureship for building physics / moisture control in building at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg. His research interests focus on the hygrothermal conditions in wall and roof constructions with special interests in the thermal behaviour of flat roofs. Christian has been involved in many WUFI® seminars, lessons and workshops during the last few years.

Cost
Early bird offer - £600 for Green Register members / £650 for non-members if you book by 2 May 2013.
£650 for Green Register members / £700 for non-members if you book after 2 May 2013.

Course fees include the 2-day course tuition, course materials, light refreshments and lunch on both days, and the full version of the WUFI® Pro software with an 8-week temporary licence, as well as access to support on the online WUFI® Forum for that period.

Registration
Participants must bring a MS Windows-compatible laptop (on which they have administrator privileges) and will receive the full version of the WUFI® Pro software with an 8-week temporary licence.To register, please click to 'sign up' below or for further information including the 2-day programme please email mail@greenregister.org.uk

A half-day seminar in partnership with ASBP followed by drinks, nibbles and networking

Registration and Exhibition 13.30, seminar from 14.00 to 17.30

Exhibitors include Wienerberger, Warmcel, Ecological Building Systems + others tbc

Context
The construction sector is the most significant consumer of the world’s natural resources. Pressures of cost, availability and environmental impact of these resources is intensifying, and we will need to get ‘more from less’ if we are going to meet future construction needs. As a consequence, the ASBP believes that industry will need to move away from commoditised generic materials to a value added model, which encourages and rewards innovation and intelligent design for both resource efficiency, as well as building performance. It is generally acknowledged that BREEAM does not encourage a resource efficient approach for the building frame. What tools could we be using? Will BIM allow this?
 
A recent ASBP report has suggested that increased use of bio-based materials in all UK buildings could be a sensible carbon-capture strategy. However, given that buildings are composites of many other materials, of which steel and concrete are amongst the most significant, what are the realistic options for a sustainable future?

Addressing these issues our speakers will review
•    What are the resource limits; UK and global outlook?
•    What will the future balance of materials look like?
      - Volume
      - Value
      - Appropriate use
•    What re-use options are available or likely to develop?
•    Social and ethical considerations
•    How can resource efficiency be measured and best practice encouraged?
•    How will BIM and other tools help to encourage appropriate choice?
•    Examples of current best practice

As is customary at ASBP events, a significant debate will follow the formal presentations.

This seminar will appeal to:
Construction product manufacturers and suppliers; Consultants – RICS, RIBA and engineers;
Decision makers – including clients, planners, architects, contractors and specifiers;
Local government and policy makers

Programme

13.30 Registration and Exhibition. Exhibitors include Wienerberger, Warmcel, Ecological Building Systems + others tbc

14.00 Welcome - Lucy Pedler, The Green Register

14.05 Setting the Scene - Gary Newman, ASBP

14.20 Key Note Address: The Sixth Carbon Sink - Craig White, architect, White Design

• Could we consider the built environment a place to store carbon at scale?
• The debate around sequestered carbon is controversial - do we have enough data on Life Cycle Analysis to decide?
• What is the potential and what is the reality compared to other forms of carbon capture and storage?

14.45 Embodied impact: Measuring, benchmarking and target setting - Craig Jones, Sustain

• The ICE database: the benefits, limitations and future development
• Measuring and reducing embodied energy at Bicester Eco-town
• Developing a water footprint database for materials and industrial products

15.10 Refreshments

15.40 Sector Presentations - Future materials resource efficiency outlook

15.40 Concrete and minerals - Guy Thompson, The Concrete Centre/ Mineral Products Association

• Local
• Long life
• Low carbon
• Responsibly Sourced

15.55 Timber and bio-renewable products - David Hopkins, Head of External Affairs
Timber Trade Federation & Wood for Good

• The success of Wood First in Hackney
• Wood First Plus providing resources in 3 key areas; carbon, LCA and Engineering

16.10 Steel - John Dowling, Sustainability Manager, The British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd

• Available reserves of material for steel manufacture.
• Reuse of steel - barriers and opportunities
• Social and ethical pressures in the steel supply chain
• Best practice for maximising the value of resources
• The impact of BIM on sustainable construction

16.25 Earth, fire and water – clay masonry - as sustainable now as it always has been - John Sandford, Director for Sustainability, Wienerberger Ltd

• Clay bricks and blocks – a traditional, sustainable and contemporary solution
• Results of the first 10 years of the Brick Development Association Sustainability Strategy
• The developing Resource Efficiency Action Plan showing opportunities for re use and recycling of clay masonry
• Innovative solutions to improve the eco efficiency of clay masonry

16.40 The Debate - Panel discussion and audience comments
Chair – Graham Hilton, ASBP
       
17.30 Summary – Gary Newman, ASBP followed by drinks, nibbles and networking

Cost: £59 for TGR/ASBP members, £85 for non members

This is event is kindly supported by BCSA and Wood for Good

You are invited to join The Green Register and E&M West for this short introduction to lime and how it works with hemp. Includes pros and cons of using the material, general benefits and how it can contribute to the structure when used as a composite with timber stud walling.
 
Presenters
 
Dr Chris Gross
Chris is responsible for cutting edge research on structural performance of timber hemp-lime composites and currently working in E&M West’s civil and structural design team.
 
Dr Jim Allen
Director at E&M West.  Jim has extensive experience in building construction including engineering of exemplar sustainable buildings and suds schemes.  Research work on building limes and in particular uk hydraulic lime binders.

The Green Register is pleased to announce this new half-day seminar in partnership with the Good Homes Alliance...

As our buildings increasingly have improved standards of air tightness, greater reliance on ventilation and increased levels of insulation the risks of rises in instances of overheating also increase. Indeed, informal reports from GHA members and the wider industry suggest that instances of overheating are already increasing, even before predicted warming and climate impacts really kick in.

Common problems include single aspect apartments, centralised systems with hot water distribution and dwellings situated on busy roads where residents are unwilling to open windows. There is also an issue within SAP, whereby if the designer checks the box that the building will be permanently ventilated, the results suggest there will be no overheating.

The GHA has issued an informal call for evidence – an initial survey - to understand if there are common problems and possible solutions, both for existing stock and newbuild. This seminar will explore the results of this survey and how we improve our modeling by addressing these issues at the very earliest stage in the design process to ensure best practice design, installation, commissioning and ongoing maintenance to reduce the occurrence of overheating.

Who should attend?

Developers, housebuilders, RSLs, architects, M&E contractors and client groups who want to create a better and wider agenda for sustainable housing, academics, public health professionals and policymakers with an interest in health and the indoor environment.

Programme

13:30 Registration & Refreshments

14:00 Chair’s Welcome
            Pete Halsall – GHA

14:10 Definitions of overheating, the health implications and the ageing population
            James Goodwin – Age UK 

14:30 Causes of Overheating
            Dr Mich Swainson – BRE

14:50 Case Studies
            Matt Harrison –White Design

15:10 Panel & Discussions

15:20 Light Refreshments

15.50 Phase Change Materials
            Ian Biggin – Phase Energy

         Design solutions for newbuild & refurbishment:

            Steve Johnson – Hilson Moran
         Modelling the Athletes’ Village

            Richard Partington – Richard Partington Architects
         Summary of the NHBC Foundation study into the causes of overheating

           Dr Stephen Porritt – Institute of Energy & Sustainable Development, De Montfort Uni
         Retrofit advice tool to minimise the risks of overheating whilst minimizing energy use

16.50 Results & learning from the TSB
            Mark Wray – TSB

17:10 Discussion, Summary and next steps

17:30 Close & networking drinks

Please note session timings and topics can be subject to change

Cost: £59 for Green Register / GHA members; £85 for non-members

Special offer - book 3 places for the price of 2!
Book 3 places and get the 3rd place free. Book your places online as normal and we will deduct the cost of the 3rd place once your booking is received.

Comprehensive Technical Guidance plus the Sustainable Angle from the Experts

This new one-day seminar is run by Mark Saich, whose extensive experience both as a Building Control officer and director of Green Building Solutions brings expert insight into the subject of designing high performing, healthy houses that will be future proofed against climate change. The emphasis throughout the seminar will be on down-to-earth advice to use in practice.

This seminar takes a critical exploration through Part L as it relates to new dwellings (doc L1A). Mark will also examine SAP and associated guidance to look at what is required to achieve compliance with the building regulations and The Code for Sustainable Homes (ENE1 and 2), highlighting solutions and pitfalls through worked examples/case studies.

For the 2013 revisions to Part L there are proposals to reduce predicted emissions through higher performance targets regarding CO2 emissions (TER) and through use of the Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard (FEES) and by closing the “performance gap” for new buildings. Mark will be exploring the proposed changes and what it means for new build projects.

Throughout the day, Mark will emphasise the sustainable aspects of the Regulations and standards so that delegates leave with a full understanding of how to design and build low energy, healthy, fully compliant homes fit for the 21st century. Mark will also question whether the current tools and guidance can truly deliver energy efficient and healthy homes.

What did our delegates say about Mark’s previous Part L training sessions?

"Exactly the right balance of technical content and clear presentation"
"Really good pace and well presented, kept our attention all day!"
"Really excellent & seamless, expansive knowledge”

About The Speaker

Mark Saich is a trainer and sustainability consultant and Director of Green Building Solutions. He regularly speaks at RICS, RIBA and Green Register events on a range of issues including Part L and sustainable construction. In 2006 was part of the team training building control professionals on the then new part L on behalf of the DCLG.

SPECIAL OFFER
Book 3 places for the price of 2!
Book 3 places and get the 3rd place free. Book your places online as normal and we will deduct the cost of the 3rd place once your booking is received.