Venue: The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
Time; 7.45 - 10.15am
Education estates are facing unprecedented increases in their gas and electricity bills. According to TES some schools are planning to cut back on teacher recruitment to offset these huge rises - to the detriment of the children they are teaching at a time when catch-up efforts are a national priority. Universities are not immune, with the scale and cost of low carbon technologies having a dramatic impact on long term planning for estates.
The Department for Education published in December 2022, guidance to support building users, premises managers and senior leadership teams to reduce energy, costs and carbon use.
Meanwhile the Department for Education (DfE) supported by Innovate UK has partnered with construction innovators to deliver GenZero - a research project to deliver a new ultra-low carbon building standard for schools.
Come and join us as we discuss:
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The scale of the challenge educational estates face.
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How the cultural landscape has changed with respect to sustainability.
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What we can do to remedy the energy and carbon challenges.
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Examples of where this has been done.
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Summary and encouragement to do better.
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Alternative fuel sources for learning.
Speakers
Matt Endean
CLEAPSS
Matt Endean started his teaching career in the East End of London, soon becoming HoD. He was then appointed as a Local Authority Science Advisor, where he worked on improving Science teaching and education. This included a lot of work on the Building Schools for the Future Programme (BSF).
Matt joined CLEAPSS in 2011 as Assistant Director and became Deputy Director in 2015. Work at CLEAPSS has included work with the DfE testing and reviewing BB101 and a review panel member for IGEM UP/11 and UP/1101.
Lilijana Oblecova
ECD Architects
Lilijana is a Senior Architect at ECD and is a Certified European Passivhaus Designer who is particularly interested in retrofit of existing buildings. Last year she led a retrofit feasibility study that looked at a selection of school archetypes in Brent, aiming to develop common strategies that could be applied across the whole estate. Prior to joining ECD in 2022, she worked on various residential and mixed-use projects in large London-based practices.
John Heaney
ECD Architects
John is an Associate at ECD Architects, with over 20 years’ experience as an architectural technologist working across many sectors and has recently qualified as a Certified European Passivhaus Designer. He was recently the architectural lead post-planning on the practice’s first Passivhaus certified project – Thornhill Primary School.
John is currently working on a number of new-build and retrofit residential projects, all with aspirations to deliver high performing sustainable buildings
David Behan
Etch
David is an experienced mechanical engineer, business leader and founding director. He has almost 20 years’ experience within the industry across a diverse sector base. A key area of evolvement is education where he has led and designed projects in higher and secondary education settings, student residential and independent schools.
He is currently overseeing several education projects that are seeking to decarbonise and pursue deep retrofit. David has a passion for technical excellence and looks to build close, collaborative and long-term relationships with clients and other members of the professional team.
Neil Young
Lyall Bills & Young
Neil co-founded Lyall, Bills & Young Architects in 2011 and has worked in a wide range of sectors including schools, residential, retail, community and infrastructure. He leads the LBY schools team and has worked closely with Government, Local Authorities and schools on an individual basis.
Neil is an experienced Technical and Design Advisor and has worked for the Department of Education on a number of recent programs, including Post Occupancy Evaluation, the GenZero Prototype schools and Space Standardisation.