Practical solutions...
to help your developments become more sustainable
BioRegional's series of five workshops at Ecobuild is designed to be practical, fun and interactive - offering some real and practical solutions to issues that can prevent developments becoming more sustainable. Come along to one or all of them, but remember it's first come first served on the day, and places are strictly limited.
One Planet Living - what does it look like?
Tuesday 2 March
14.30-16.30 - Kensington Room
Thursday 4 March
14.30-16.30 - Kensington Room
Facilitator:
Sue Riddlestone, Director and Co-founder, BioRegional Development Group
Guest speakers:
Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs and Hab Housing (Tuesday 2 March at 16.00-16.30)
Pooran Desai, One Planet Communities Director and Co-founder, BioRegional Development Group
One Planet Living provides a vision of a truly sustainable way of life and a practical framework for achieving it. This workshop will use a real site, the Bicester eco-town 300 home demonstrator, to help you explore how the One Planet Living framework can be applied. By putting yourself in the shoes of one of the residents, whether a school kid, a working couple or a retired person, you can have a go at planning the buildings, services and facilities that should exist in the development to help you live a sustainable lifestyle. Kevin McCloud will attend this session (on Tuesday 2nd March from 4pm to 4.30pm) to talk about how he has applied a One Planet Living approach to his Hab housing developments in Swindon.
Shifting stubborn embodied carbon
Tuesday 2 March
16.30-18.00 - Kensington Room
Facilitator:
Liz Darley, Head of One Planet UK, BioRegional Development Group
As buildings become more energy efficient in their operation, the embodied carbon of the materials used in construction is rapidly becoming a major aspect of the overall carbon impact of the project. This workshop will demonstrate how intelligent choices of materials and construction methods can have a big impact in reducing embodied carbon, helping you to meet the Code for Sustainable Homes and earn BREEAM credits.
How do you sell a car free development?
Wednesday 3 March
13.00-14.30 - Kensington Room
Facilitator:
Jude Hassall, Energy Project Manager, BioRegional Development Group
Car-free developments are cheaper to build and offer enormous environmental benefits, but how do you overcome resistance from politicians, neighbours, and home buyers? This interactive workshop will examine the barriers to building without parking spaces, discuss ways to dispel the myths that surround such schemes, and come up with innovative ways to promote car-free and low car developments.
What's food got to do with it?
Thursday 4 March
11.00-12.30 - Kensington Room
Facilitator:
Philippa Ward, Head of One Planet Sutton, BioRegional Development Group
Growing and transporting food represents nearly a quarter of a UK resident's ecological footprint - more than home energy, transport and consumer goods. In the media the talk is all about local food, food miles, and growing-your-own. Local food production is even a requirement of the eco-towns PPS, how can this be achieved? This workshop, using one of the eco-town sites will highlight the role that clients, architects, and designers can play in helping to reduce the ecological impact of food in new developments, from enabling deliveries to encouraging growing.
Beyond construction seminar
In addition to the BioRegional workshops, the 'Beyond construction' seminar in the Westminster Room on Thursday 4 March from 10.30 to 12.00 features speakers from BioRegional, Sutton Council and Sustrans on the topic of 'One planet communities: designing for sustainable lifestyles'. More details here.
Sue Riddlestone, Executive Director and Co-founder, BioRegional
Using residents ecological and carbon footprint to drive sustainable design: monitoring results from BedZED and approach to eco-towns (10.30-11.00)
Pooran Desai, Sustainability Director, BioRegional Quintain
One planet communities - designing cost effectively for a sustainable lifestyle: One Brighton to Sonoma Mountain Village (11.00-11.20)
Chris Reid, Executive Head of Environmental Sustainability, London Borough of Sutton
Hackbridge, Sutton case study: using knowledge of human behaviour for retro-fitting sustainable lifestyles in to an existing community (11.20-11.40)
Malcolm Shepherd, CEO, Sustrans
Sustainable transport initiatives and drives to reduce carbon emissions (11.40-12.00)
Other BioRegional speakers at Ecobuild 2010
Other BioRegional speaking appearances at Ecobuild include:
Pooran Desai, One Planet Communities Director and Co-founder, BioRegional Development Group
Counting the carbon, measuring the progress (Tuesday 02 March 10.30-11.30)
Jonathan Essex, Reclaimed Materials Manager, BioRegional Development Group
Specifying and procuring reclaimed materials and components (Tuesday 02 March 15.20-15.40)
How do I register?
The BioRegional workshops are free to attend and you do not need to register. However, capacity is limited and all spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis on the day. Click on the image below to get your pass for Ecobuild.
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