Programme

Climate Emergency:
Mainstreaming Passivhaus by 2030

9:30

Policy

Climate Emergency, the need for 2030 targets and the role of buildings

Jenny Hill, Team Leader: Buildings, Industry, Committee on Climate Change

Passivhaus 2030 Roadmap: responding to the climate emergency

John Palmer, Research and Policy Director, Passivhaus Trust

The Buildings Mission and the Future Homes standard
Lynne Sullivan, Green Construction Board

Climate emergency plans at a local and national level
Kevin Frea, Deputy Leader & Member for Climate Emergency, Lancaster City Council

Passivhaus plans on a city-wide scale
Denise Craghill, Member for Housing, York City Council

11:30

Keynote projects

Residential

Agar Grove

The redevelopment of Agar Grove in Camden is set to become the UK’s largest residential Passivhaus development when complete. The first block of 38 homes achieved Passivhaus certification in May 2018 and has since been monitored for performance and occupant comfort.

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Sally Godber, WARM: Low Energy Building Practice

New York Tower

The House at Cornell Tech is a 26 storey, 87m high student housing block in New York, proving that Passivhaus is possible at the biggest scale.

Tomás O'Leary, Passive House Academy

Great Yarmouth retrofit

This retrofit of a 1950s block of six council flats aims to demonstrate a fast, efficient and cost-effective solution to the challenge of deep retrofit on a common building typology, with the potential to then be rolled out on similar buildings across the country.

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Ron Beattie, Beattie Passive & Konstantinos Megagiannis, Enhabit

Non-domestic

Erne Campus

Erne Campus is striving to become the first commercial Passivhaus Premium building in the UK. Currently on-site, construction is due to complete in January 2020.

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Barry McCarron, South West College

Frankfurt Hospital

Learn from the progress of a large, complex, and energy hungry building typology. The world’s first hospital designed to the Passivhaus Standard is nearing completion.

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Kristin Bräunlich, Passive House Institute (video)

1 Regent Street retrofit, Cambridge

1 Regent Street, Entopia Building (c) Architype

The new home for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership is set to be one of the most ambitious non-domestic retrofits to the EnerPHit standard in the UK so far.

Alex Reeve, Cambridge University Estates Department & Wendy Bishop, Architype

14:00

Skills and demand / How to deliver Passivhaus

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

Passivhaus training and skills needs

Training and skills needs
Tomás O'Leary, Passive House Academy

Panel speakers:

Training a whole company - Stewart & Shields
Training needs for a large site - Alex Baines, Design Buro
Architects’ training - Sarah Lewis, Hamson Barron Smith

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

Stimulating demand (policy & procurement)

Stimulating demand
Rob Bernhardt, Passive House Canada (video link)

Panel speakers:

Procurement drivers - David Kemp, Procure Plus
Choosing your performance levels - Daniel Tomlinson, GWP Architects
Costs - Kate de Selincourt

CASE STUDIES

How to deliver Passivhaus

Social housing on Caerphilly Magistrates' Court site:
Procurement lessons and costs feedback
Alun Watkins, Lync Cymru

Harris Academy, Sutton:
Design and construction planning
Christian Dimbleby, Architype

The Barrel Store:
Construction and quality management
Toby Cambray, Greengauge / James Duggan, DJP Construction

16:00

Scaling up / Passivhaus round tables

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

Scaling up retrofit

The role of retrofit in decarbonising city regions
Matt Rooney, Anthesis

Panel speakers:

Decarbonising energy & heat supply - Gwilym Still, Max Fordham
Co-benefits of refurbishment - speaker tbc
The need for deep retrofit - Richard Miller, IET

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

Industrialising Passivhaus

Passivhoos and off-site construction
Matt Bridgestock, John Gilbert Architects

Programme

Climate Emergency:
Mainstreaming Passivhaus by 2030

9:30

Policy

11:30