CIBSE national conference 2011 Preview
Time for a great British refurb
One building every minute will need to be refurbished between now and 2050 in order to meet Britain’s carbon reduction targets. This year’s CIBSE national conference focuses on the refurbishment challenge being faced by all parts of the sector
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The UK government’s tough targets for reducing carbon
emissions by 80% by 2050 have focused environmental targets onto new buildings, but the real challenge is the existing building stock, says CIBSE, whose national conference on 7 April in London this year focuses on refurbishment.
The CIBSE national conference in 2010 included a panel discussion chaired by the then president-elect, Rob Manning (standing) However, says the institution,
The title of the conference,
‘One building a minute – the great refurbishment challenge’, highlights the fact that there are around 26m homes and about 2m commercial and non-domestic premises that will need to be refurbished if the government target is to be met. That gives us around 21m minutes – so we need to refurbish more than one building a minute over the next 39 years, even if we start today. The recent Final Report from
the UK Low Carbon Construction Innovation and Growth Team emphasised that producing eco- friendly new buildings from now will
not go far enough (see January’s Journal). The 2050 target will only be achievable if existing buildings have their energy efficiency improved, too.
As much as 150m tonnes of
carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere from the UK’s housing stock each year, according to the government. Most buildings in existence today will still be standing in another 40 years and a sizeable proportion of them will be more than a century old by then. And so the opportunities for 2011 look set to be in refurbishment rather than new build, CIBSE argues.
some building services companies will have to change their current offering to optimise their chances of winning profitable work in refurbishment – a highly competitive area. And it is not yet clear how clients will rise to the challenge of improving their existing commercial and industrial buildings. The sector as whole – right across the supply chain – faces a major challenge to help meet the 2050 target. The CIBSE national conference
will explore how this target can be achieved and the way in which the building services industry can provide the knowledge, expertise and skills necessary to make it possible for clients and owners to undertake these refurbishments and make the hoped-for savings. The conference aims to enable
delegates to understand the value propositions that will appeal to clients, and to cost and win tenders with the minimum of risk – and the event will seek to explain where to gain knowledge about strategies to achieve real energy savings for clients. CIBSE president Rob Manning
Delegates take part in the 2010 conference dinner debate 16 CIBSE Journal February 2011 Atkins chief Keith Clarke gives a keynote speech in 2010
is to chair the one-day event in the morning and will be giving the opening address. The afternoon will
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