Twilight Talks

The Green Register's early evening talks supported by Ecomerchant: together promoting ethical, healthy sustainable building materials

On the second Monday of each month The Green Register brings you our Twilight Talks - a relaxed and informal string of events on sustainable building matters to complement our regular training topics.

Each one-hour event is FREE of charge and features short talks from one or more speakers. With Q&A and discussion sessions throughout, everyone is invited to be part of the conversation. We hold Twilight talks at 5-6pm, in the sweet spot between work and dinner – so join us to nourish the mind before replenishing the body!

A low carbon and circular built environment needs holistic working with other aspects of sustainability, productivity, resilience, social impact and health and wellbeing.

Katherine Adams, Technical Director at ASBP and co-director of Reusefully Ltd, and Gilli Hobbs, Sustainability and Circular Economy Advisor and co-director at Reusefully Ltd, enable the practical implementation of circular economy thinking throughout the construction supply chain and provide evidence-based support and advice for related policy development.

This interactive Twilight Talk will explore 'Buildings As Material Banks', getting to grips with circularity through the journeys of several specific materials, including sharing your own stories of accessing re-used materials, and reviewing recent examples of how much we learn from pre-demolition audits.

About the Speakers

Katherine Adams

Katherine has over 20 years’ experience in sustainability and materials, mostly in the construction sector. She has recently completed a PhD at Loughborough University, looking at how a circular economy can be embedded in the building sector.

She is the Technical Director at ASBP and provides her expertise to the development and implementation of projects, working groups and to members. She also directs a consultancy called ReUsefully with Gilli Hobbs.

Gilli Hobbs
Gilli Hobbs has provided technical and expert input to sustainability related projects in the built environment for over 25 years. She was a director in the strategic advisory team at BRE until 2021, working across low carbon buildings and building products, circular & lean construction, renewable energy technologies and sustainable communities.

Gilli is experienced in the delivery of complex and multi-disciplinary programmes of work, such as Home of 2030, HomeWorks Energy Efficiency Retrofit pilot, EU BAMB (Buildings as Material Banks), EC study on Circular Economy Principles, and EU CIRCuIT (Circular Construction in Regenerative Cities) .

She co-developed the widely used environmental reporting software SMARTWaste and has created bespoke sustainability standards internationally.
 

Twilight Talks are supported by Ecomerchant.