Festival of Place: Climate Resilience 2024
Festival of Place: Climate Resilience
25-26 November, 2024
Update your thinking and learn from new research and pilot schemes. Find out how to transform, design and develop places that are ready for uncertain and unpredictable weather events and policy changes, such as the phasing out of fossil fuels.
Delivered live with Q&A over two lunchtime sessions, everything is recorded and available on demand. Join our community to learn about the latest pilot schemes and research findings and fulfil your CPD requirements.
In multiple sessions delivered over long lunches, we will focus on rainwater attenuation and flood resilience, retrofitting for the future, designing for a warming UK and urban social resilience. The event will be sharing fresh research and case studies on topics from overheating to land use to update your learning and support your strategic planning.
This event will help you:
- Evaluate the case for retrofit. You’ll learn about how energy suppliers are disrupting the market with initiatives such as Octopus Energy’s Zero Bills homes and find out what researchers have learned from studying the building performance of decade-old retrofit housing projects
- Deliver flood resilience alongside biodiversity and transport improvements. You’ll learn from case studies, including Glasgow’s The Avenues, how to adopt a win-win strategy and deliver on targets for health, air quality, biodiversity, water quality, green space and pedestrian/cycling improvements on complex urban sites
- Future proof and de-risk your places: Fresh thinking on how to create resilient places and make a positive environmental and social impact in the context of climate change. Understand the risks to thriving places and gather solutions and inspiration to fuel better strategic decision-making.
- Gain valuable CPD hours: The sessions will count towards formal or informal CPD hours and meet criteria that requires content on the topics of climate, sustainability, resilience, and environmental and biodiversity net gain; flooding; sustainable architecture; places, planning and communities, and more, depending on your accreditation.
Tickets on sale now, members go free: Organisation membership is available with unlimited access for your organisation to Climate Resilience and tickets to all festival events, enquire with james@thedeveloper.live or call 020 3326 7238
Supported by Civic Engineers, who will be presenting their resilience work on The Avenues in Glasgow. Just one sponsorship opportunity left! Get in touch with james@thedeveloper.live if you’re interested in taking part.
2024 Agenda
Streamed live online over two long lunches. All sessions recorded and available on demand in the Festival of Place talks library. Event runs Monday and Tuesday from 11am-2pm.
Monday 25 November
11:00 - 11:50 The road to Climate Resilience: What does a climate resilient built environment look like and how do we get there?
Speakers: Dr Macarena Cárdenas, Senior Advisor – Resilience and Nature, UKGBC
How do we assess the vulnerability of our buildings and their communities? What metrics do we need? How do we balance the need for resilience with the need to achieve zero carbon? As noted by the Climate Change Committee, the UK currently lacks associated targets or goals for resilience standards at a national, local or sectoral level. The UKGBC is working to define these targets through collaborative research and engagement with the wider built environment industry. Find about their work to catalyse more urgent, comprehensive, and cohesive action on climate resilience throughout our industry and beyond.
12:00 - 12:50 Saving for a rainy day: hardworking horticulture and transformative raingardens
Speakers: Isla Jackson, Director, Civic Engineers; Prof. Vernon Phoenix, Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, University of Strathclyde
Explore opportunities and hardworking potential of rain gardens to solve multiple challenges and their ability to create liveable, walkable and healthier neighbourhoods with greater biodiversity. Taking cues from pioneering research into sustainable drainage performance at Glasgow’s Avenues project, the discussion will reveal innovative thinking about how raingardens sit within a wider infrastructure puzzle and bust some myths around their maintenance.
13:00-13:50 Delivering flood resilience through planning
Speaker: Celia Davis, senior projects and policy manager, Town & Country Planning Association
Is the planning system consistent in securing climate adaptation measures on new-build residential sites? Celia David, senior projects and policy manager at the TCPA presents new research seeking to understand the treatment of flood risk in the development process with a focus on processes that occur after full or outline planning consent is granted and the processes through which flood risk mitigations are agreed, including sustainable urban drainage, property flood resilience and emergency evacuation plans.
14:00-14:50 Session Four
Speaker: Damien Sharkey, Managing Director, HUB
Sharing the developer’s approach to reusing existing buildings including how to spot the challenges and maximise carbon savings while delivering a positive impact.
Tuesday 26 November
11:00 - 11:50 3 degree neighbourhood
Speaker: Imandeep Kaur, co-founder and director, Civic Square
The 3 degree neighbourhood is a new piece of research co-authored by Civic Square and Dark Matter Labs on the risks UK urban neighbourhoods face due to climate and ecological breakdown under a high emissions scenario. In this talk, Imandeep Kaur, co-founder and director of Civic Square will discuss how to reimagine and “re-infrastructure” neighbourhoods to rebuild the social and organisational networks for a more unpredictable world.
12:00 - 12:50 Decarbonisation, retrofit and zero bills homes
Speaker: Emma Fletcher, Low Carbon Homes Director, Octopus Energy
We will be talking about their ability to accredit homes with Zero Bills for developers, housing associations and local authorities. In this session, you’ll learn how Octopus is disrupting the market and aiming to remove electricity bills for all.
13:00-13:50 Retrofit Revisit
Speakers: Marion Baeli, co-author of Retrofit Revisit and Principal – Sustainability Transformation at 10 Design and Julie Godefroy, Head of Net Zero Policy at CIBSE
10 years since their retrofit, an investigation into 10 housing projects has revealed how retrofitted housing outperforms non-retrofitted stock including greater occupant comfort and reduced energy bills. In this talk, Marion Baeli, co-author of Retrofit Revisit and Principal – Sustainability Transformation at 10 Design, you will learn about the insights gained from a decade of building performance evaluation of retrofitted homes and areas needing further research to support the nationwide rollout of retrofit.
14:00-14:50 UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard
Speaker: Dr Jane Anderson from LCA Construction and Technical Steering Group of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard
Dr Jane Anderson from LCA Construction and Technical Steering Group of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard will be presenting the new Net Zero standard. Anderson is an expert on embodied carbon and will bring a wealth of knowledge from her own consultancy as well as her intimate knowledge of the development and detail of the Standard. Dr Jane Anderson is one of the leading experts on embodied carbon and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) in the construction sector. She is involved in sustainable construction standardisation efforts at product and building level internationally for the UK. She was part of the authorship team for the recently released second edition of the RICS ’Whole life carbon assessment for the built environment’, providing input into consistency, compliance, general guidance and had a principal role in editing the document. She represents the Whole Life Carbon Network on the Technical Steering Group of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard. She has recently completed a PhD considering the role of EPD in embodied carbon reduction.
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Featured SpeakersView All
Imandeep Kaur
Prof. Vernon Phoenix
Emma Fletcher
Marion Baeli
Julie Godefroy
Isla Jackson
Celia Davis
Christine Murray
Dr Macarena Cárdenas
Dr Jane Anderson
Damien Sharkey