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RESILIENT DESIGN: CLIMATE CHANGE, COVID AND VENTILATION
7th April 2022 – ONE DAY WORKSHOP
Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ
This one-day Workshop will help Architects, Engineers, Developers, Planners and Researchers catch up with the latest research, developments and thinking on the three great challenges of our times:
- How do we protect occupants indoors from ever more extreme climate trends and weather events?
- Can we learn to create pandemic-proof buildings?
- How might we adapt our designs to incorporate the multiple benefits of natural and mixed-mode ventilation?
Over the day, nine leading experts will tackle related issues to inform and educate us on how to design for ‘resilience’ – keeping people affordably safer, healthier and more comfortable in buildings. Plenty of time will be allowed for questions from the audience, and the final session will engage the audience in exploring their own attitudes on the subject, and to map the differences in understandings and approaches to the challenge of creating designing safer, healthier and more comfortable buildings in our increasingly unpredictable world.
How extreme will the climate get? How do we reduce overheating in buildings? How can we economically cool buildings? How can occupants survive indoors when the grid fails? How is SARS-CoV spread in buildings? What are the costs and benefits of different ventilation choices? What innovations in ventilation can we build on, and build into buildings? Where are the leading edge exemplar buildings we can learn from?
Check out the programme and the Biographies of the keynote speakers. There will be limited places in the venue and COVID-secure procedures followed. Please contact us with any queries or special requests. We are fortunate to being able to host the event in the easily accessed Friend’s House, opposite London’s Euston Station. We hope to see you there for what promises to be a challenging and fascinating day.
Sue Roaf
Emeritus Professor of Architectural Engineering
Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
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