UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings 2019 Annual Conference
05 November 2019, 8:30 am–4:15 pm
UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings 2019 Annual Conference - Moisture in the built environment: Challenges and opportunities.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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UKCMB
Location
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Building Research EstablishmentBricket woodWatfordWD25 9XX
About this Event
The conference will review the work of the UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings (UKCMB) alongside presentations about moisture in buildings by expert guest speakers from industry and academia.
The conference is free to attend, but places are limited. We hope that you and your colleagues will join us for this event, to learn about our research and training activities, to help us shape the work of the UKCMB for the coming years, and to help us promote moisture-safe building and retrofit across our industries. Please register before 25 October. All bookings will be acknowledged and joining instructions will be circulated before the event.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference,
Hector Altamirano, Peter Rickaby, Yasemin Aktas, Valentina Maricioni and Colin King (the UKCMB management team).
Provisional agenda
08:30 - 09:30 Arrival, registration and refreshments
09:30 Welcome, introduction and overview of the day, Hector Altamirano
09:40 Welcome from the BRE Chief Executive, Gillian Charlesworth
09:50 Update on UKCMB’s activities and Future Plan, Peter Rickaby
10:10 Monitoring and Modelling of Moisture in Buildings, Valentina Marincioni
10.25 Moisture in existing buildings and retrofit, Robert Prewett and Harry Paticas
10:40 Whole house approach: the moisture white paper and BS5250, Chris Sanders
11.00 Driving Retrofit Quality: PAS 2035, Peter Rickaby
11.20 Refreshment break
11:40 Ventilation, airtightness and moisture in buildings, Ian Mawditt and Tim Sharp
12:00 Demand controlled ventilation, Simon Jones
12.20 Presentation about the UKCMB CPD courses, Hector Altamirano
12.30 Networking Lunch
Including poster presentations (posters of the projects UKCMB has been working on) and an introduction to the MIMA tool and video
14:00 A holistic approach: designing out moisture, minimising construction moisture, and moisture as a pollutant in use, Lynne Sullivan
14.20 What is an acceptable level of building moisture and how is it defined? Steve Hodgson
14.40 Flooding, Dina D’Ayala (to be confirmed)
14.50 Refreshment break
15:00 Are damp homes bad for our health? Graham Atherton
15:20 Moisture and Health, Public Health England (to be confirmed)
15:40 Summary of the day, Colin King
16:15 Close of conference