UCL IEDE Annual Symposium on Net Zero Roadmaps, Challenges and Solutions

In this special UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering symposium on the transition of Net Zero, global experts will explore the challenges and opportunities of the move to a zero-carbon world.

UCL IEDE researchers and academics are leading the way in global sustainability. Through innovative partnerships with industry leaders and disruptive thinking, we are developing pathways towards achieving net zero in the built environment. Please join us in March to hear from industry and academic speakers about state-of-the art work on net zero.

Speaker: Dimitrios Rovas: 'Constructing and delivering Digital Building Twins and digitalisation of energy efficiency in the context of climate change and resilient building operation – what is a digital twin, what examples are there and how can digital twins support objectives across a buildings’ life-cycle.' 

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Speaker: Valentina Marincioni: 'Development of frameworks and tools for moisture-safe construction, and innovative building fabric solutions for the retrofit of traditional buildings.'

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Speaker: Simon Hatherley: 'AHMM's Building Performance Team shares the results of their Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) research collaboration with the UCL’s Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) examining net-zero carbon building approaches in the context of complex, mixed use, densely developed and commercially driven projects. Also presented are the main output of the research ‘Delivering Net Zero In Use: a guide for Architects’ and its associated net zero carbon toolkit.'

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Speaker: Esfand Burman: 'Achieving net-zero carbon performance is increasingly a major component of Environmental and Social Governance in the commercial real estate sector. Commercial offices tend to be heterogeneous in their in-built forms, their organisational infrastructures, and in the activities that go on inside them. Commercial relationships and interactions between landlords and tenants can also be significant factors in energy management. This presentation provides an overview of the findings of a research project carried out by UCL IEDE academics for the British Council for Offices (BCO). It identifies the key opportunities and challenges that businesses are facing as they strive to pursue drastic reductions in carbon emissions.'

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Speaker: Rokia Raslan: 'Retrofitting hard to treat / hard to decarbonise homes, equity in the Net Zero transition, current knowledge gaps and the innovative and interdisciplinary research approaches that will be needed to catalyse the innovation of solutions in retrofitting homes.'

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Speaker: Tim Knights, Hoare Lea: 'Decarbonising existing large commercial private and public sector buildings utilising novel pragmatic approaches to system design that sympathetically respect the limiting technical and commercial challenges clients face, using experienced in use energy skills and modelling analysis is an exciting template to save potentially game changing quantities of in use carbon in this often overlooked sector.'

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Speaker: Julie Godefroy, CIBSE: The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard

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Event information

Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, UCL Bloomsbury campus, Gower St., London, WC1E 6AE (Reception - South Cloisters, Wilkins Building)

Date: Friday, 31st March, 2023

Time: 11.00am - 4.00pm

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