About this course

In addition to national planning policies, each local authority has their own sustainable building guidelines and requirements, adding to the complexity of ensuring your planning applications will be validated..

Join trainers Yiota Paraskeva and Agathe Revil of Eight Versa as they help you navigate the sustainability policy landscape and overcome the challenge of integrating the outputs required for a successful application.

Key learning outcomes:

• What sustainability outputs you need for planning applications
• How to sequence the work for optimal performance
• Where the linkages are between all the moving parts
• Common pitfalls, looking at where most applications fail

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. As well as this, 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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