RESETing the built environment

Where: Eversheds, 1 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7WS
When: 9.00 - 17.30 (9am registration for a 9.30 start)
Price: £100 standard rate / £80 RESET member or student

9th September: Living Roofs & Ecosystem Services
Gary Grant, Dusty Gedge and Michael Pawlyn

Flash flooding and air pollution health alerts are already part of London's summer profile, as well as an urban heat island effect and possible Lisbon style temperatures by 2020. At the same time, habitat and biodiversity loss are threatening the future of the human race. This masterclass looks at a range of ecological design principles to work with natural cycles, adapt our cities to climate change, and provide for nature, using ecosystem services as a lens. By exploring living roofs and ecosystem services design, the workshop looks at the holistic and integrated design approaches needed to produce better buildings and environments in our cities. The masterclass is led by the independent ecologist and masterplanner, Gary Grant, and living roofs policy writer, campaigner and author Dusty Gedge, with biomimicry architect Michael Pawlyn and the architect Ken Yeang. If you are involved in any aspect of design for the urban environment, planning, architecture, engineering, landscape or ecology, or working in related fields of law, insurance, health or public services, then this course is for you.
 
8th October: Renewable Energy for London
David Linsley-Hood (CAT), Ashley Bateson (Hoare Lea), Giovanni Festa (WSP)

If we are to meet zero carbon targets by 2030, how can we make the most of the renewable energy technologies available to us? Which technologies are appropriate for the non domestic sector and what should architects, engineers, planners and others be doing to support their use? This masterclass is led by David Linsley-Hood, renewable energy engineer and senior lecturer at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales and explores the choices around solar, wind and hydro, heat pumps, CHP and biomass for cities. If you are involved in designing or specifying technologies for renewable energy generation, this event is for you.
 
12th November: Water in Building Design
Cath Hassell (ech2o) and Judith Thornton (Water Works)

As water resources become ever more scarce in the south east and legislation tightens on its use, how can we design intelligently to reduce our water consumption? This event is led by two of the UK's recognised experts in low energy design for water in building sevrices. It explores how conventional water use works and what approaches are required by designers, planners and installers to take the carbon out of our water and to optimise its use. If you are involved in the design of buildings or water-based building service systems, this event is for you.

2nd December: PassivHaus in the UK
Mark Siddall (Devereux Architects), Andy Simmonds (SImmonds Mills), Henrietta Lynch, Bob Prewett (Prewett Bizley) and Justin Bere (Bere Architects)

Some of the UK's foremost practitioners in PassivHaus design come together for a masterclass on the principles behind PassivHaus, discussing their own work implementing this relatively recent UK arrival. Challenges, opportunities and case studies are explored, with an opportunity for participants to share their own projects and discuss best practice approaches to very low energy design. If you are a built environment professional interested in low carbon newbuild design or refurbishment, this event is for you.