Conferences

Register now for the STBA-SPAB Conference on 13 June 2017, which will be focusing on the sustainability of traditional buildings. This year the conference will explore a much broader agenda, based around three themes: Context relates to the existing regulatory and policy framework for the built environment, but also to our understanding of sustainability - as most current definitions fail to include health or heritage and thus lead to false oppositions and unintended consequences. Continuity highlights the importance of maintenance in achieving dry, healthy and functioning (i.e. sustainable) buildings, the recording and valuing of heritage on “low status” buildings, and reducing the…

This conference, hosted and supported by the HEMAC network and the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit at the Glasgow School of Art, brings together research and case studies to help shed light on this important topic. The conference will include invited speakers, presentations and discussion, a poster session and networking opportunities. Ian Mawditt will be presenting findings from the MVHR meta-study, which was published in 2016. The focus of this presentation will be in relation to design-stage decisions that have a bearing on the performance of MVHR ventilation. For further conference details, visit the UKIEG web page.

This year's conference will explore areas where there are significant current and upcoming challenges and opportunities for the industry. Ian Mawditt from fourwalls will be presenting on ventilation and IAQ - how to evaluate and deal with the problems. See PCA website for booking details. Session 1 – Current and future challenges faced by industry Themes: Retrofit / Challenges faced by residential surveyors / Property Level Protection (PLP) and its adoption Session 2 – Ventilation & Indoor Air Quality Themes: The problems we are facing / How to evaluate and deal with the problems / PCA & Knowledge Transfer Partnership Session 3 –…