About this course

What should be considered when designing for sustainable retrofit to reduce carbon? What are the latest policy and regulatory changes? What is hot spot analysis and how could it help?

This new online training session, with trainers Yiota Paraskeva and Agathe Revil of Eight Versa, will outline key factors to consider when retrofittting, and look at how to minimise a building’s carbon footprint over its lifecycle.

Key learning outcomes:  

• Understanding performance assessments and required scale of improvements for existing building stock
• Navigating through the current and emerging regulatory and rating requirements
• The what, where and how of hot spot analysis
• Triangulating impacts on various parameters of design
• The key to multi-stakeholder involvement and how we can help
• Understand what the latest policy and regulatory changes mean for your project  
• How to reduce carbon while balancing the energy demand, thermal comfort and daylight trifecta
• What effects design decisions have on Embodied Carbon throughout the building’s lifecycle

There will be plenty of time for attendees to ask questions on the topic.

Architects – need to meet the new ARB CPD requirements on Environmental Sustainability? 

As of January 2024, all architects on the UK Register are required by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) to record and confirm participation in CPD to maintain registration. ARB’s CPD scheme is activity-based and is focused on learning outcomes. You can find out more about ARB’s CPD requirements here.

This course relates to environmental sustainability, which is one of the mandatory topics for the 2025 ARB scheme.

View or download this checklist which shows in more detail how attendance on this course can help you meet these requirements. 

About the Trainers

Yiota Paraskeva, Head of Technical Services, Eight Versa

As Head of Technical Services and the team’s specialist in building physics, particularly thermal performance modelling and moisture transmission, Yiota provides specialist building fabric consulting to achieve low energy schemes. With her extensive experience in architectural detailing and thermal bridging analysis of building elements, systems and junctions, Yiota provides consultancy services that aim to optimise the whole building fabric to reduce heat losses and condensation risks.  

She also specialises in dynamic modelling of buildings to provide advice in relation to energy consumption, carbon emissions, thermal comfort, overheating and daylighting, as well as modelling external microclimates and environmental conditions. Yiota uses her expertise to help organisations measure and minimise their carbon footprint for Scope 1, 2 and 3. Yiota has a BSc in Architectural Engineering from the University of Thrace, Greece, and a MSc in Energy and Efficient Environmental Building Design from Lund University, Sweden and is also a Certified Passive House Designer.  

Agathe Revil, Senior Sustainability and Building Performance Consultant, Eight Versa

Agathe is a Senior Sustainability and Building Performance Consultant at Eight Versa who specialises in energy and building performance modelling. Agathe has experience working with the broad range of issues that encompass sustainability and has developed an integrated approach to sustainable building design.  

Agathe specialises in building performance analysis which typically comprises dynamic simulation analyses to assess thermal comfort and indoor air quality in buildings. She also has a focus on passive design that aims to optimise the building layout, fabric and form in order to improve occupant comfort and building energy efficiency which includes advising on energy consumption, overheating, daylighting and natural ventilation.

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