LOW CARBON BUILDINGS DIRECTORY

is an online educational tool designed to build a new alliance of professional organisations, academics and practitioners who are willing to share knowledge and experience relating to the design and operational performance of low carbon buildings. Welcome.

  • Towards Low Carbon Buildings - New Wine into Old Wineskins?

    speaker: Hywel Davies, Technical Director, CIBSE

    CIBSE is the standard setter and authority on building services engineering. It publishes Guidance and Codes which are internationally recognised as authoritative, and sets the criteria for best practice in the profession. The Institution speaks for the profession and so is consulted by government on matters relating to construction, engineering and sustainability. It is represented on major bodies and organisations which govern construction and engineering occupations in the UK, Europe and worldwide.

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    Towards Low Carbon Buildings - New Wine into Old Wineskins?
    Towards Low Carbon Buildings - New Wine into Old Wineskins?

  • Low Carbon Buildings - Motivation and Objectives

    speaker: Ian Ward, University of Sheffield, Immediate Past Chairman of IBPSA England

    Mr Ward is currently a Reader in the School of Architecture (University of Sheffield). Mr Ward's research has mainly been in the area of building energy usage, in particular ventilation and air movement within buildings and energy issues related to building services systems. Mr Ward has been able to concentrate a large part of this research effort into the design of appropriate energy systems for passively cooling buildings in hot regions of the world, he has successfully supervised many post-graduate students. Within the air movement field Mr Ward has been successful in collaboration with colleagues in...

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    Low Carbon Buildings - Motivation and Objectives
    Low Carbon Buildings - Motivation and Objectives

  • Understanding, Shaping and Challenging the Built Environment

    speaker: Professor Bob Lowe, Complex Built Environment Systems (CBES), The Bartlett, University College London

    Professor Rober Lowe is Professor of Energy and Building Science at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL). He is a physicist with a broad interest in the field of buildings, energy and sustainability. After studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge from 1974-77, he joined the Open University Energy Research Group where he studied the impacts of dispersed arrays of wind turbines on electricity grids, passive solar heating in housing and undertook one of the earliest studies of micro-chp in the UK. After a brief interlude at Sheffield University, he moved to Leeds Metropolitan University, where he directed numerous laboratory, field...

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    Understanding, Shaping and Challenging the Built Environment
    Understanding, Shaping and Challenging the Built Environment