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Surface Design Show 2012 7th - 9th February at the Business Design Centre, London The Surface Design Show, focusing exclusively on innovative and inspi- rational interior and exterior surface solutions, will offer architects and interior designers a unique opportu- nity to compare the latest materials, processes and products for use in their projects.
www.surfacedesignshow.com
OMA/Progress Ends Sunday 19th
February, 11.00am -
8.00pm at Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS Barbican Art Gallery is transformed by an exhibition on OMA, one of the most influential architecture prac- tices working today. Celebrated as much for their daring and unconven- tional ideas as their inventive build- ings, the work of OMA and its think tank AMO anticipates the architec- tural, engineering and cultural ideas transforming our material world.
www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/
ARC 2012 February 29th
- March 1st at the
Business Design Centre, London The ARC Show, the Architectural, Retail and Commercial Lighting event, brings together the entire spectrum of lighting disciplines for two days of sourcing, networking and celebrating, whether you are involved in lighting projects within the public and local authority sectors, or the creation of world leading retail environments.
www.thearcshow.com
RIBA talk: Emerging Architecture Ends 29th
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD Emerging Architecture’s 13th
February at Florence Hall, ar+d
Awards for Emerging Architecture recognise excellence in realised work by architects under 45. Enjoy a series of talks about their work by six of the winning and commended architects from around the world.
www.architecture.com/WhatsOn
Terence Conran: The way we live now Ends Sunday 4th
March, 10.00am -
5.45pm at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, SE1 2YD The Design Museum marks Sir Terence Conran’s 80th
birthday. The
Way We Live Now explores Conran’s impact and legacy, whilst also showing his design approach and inspirations. The exhibition traces his career from post-war austerity through to the present day.
designmuseum.org/exhibitions/ 2011/terence-conran
IFSEC International Security Industry Awards 2012 opens for entries Deadline 9th
March
UBM plc, organisers of IFSEC International security event, has now opened the IFSEC International Security Industry Awards 2012 for entry. For more information and to enter, simply go to:
www.ifsec.co.uk/awards
UKERC highlights alarming omissions and inconsistencies in Green Deal consultation
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he UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), on 18th
January, issued its response to the
Department of Energy and Climate Change’s consultation on the Green Deal, highlighting key omissions and inconsistencies in the document. The government’s Green Deal
aims to reduce carbon emissions cost effectively by revolutionising the energy efficiency of British proper- ties, but has been criticised by the Committee on Climate Change as being unlikely to deliver this objec- tive. The government’s own impact assessment has also confirmed that the rate of energy efficiency improve- ment will be less than 25 per cent than is currently being achieved – in other words the proposed policy change will reduce policy effective- ness, not improve it. The UKERC response, compiled
by Dr Nick Eyre (University of Oxford), Jan Rosenow (University of Oxford), Joanne Wade (independent researcher) and Dr Charlie Wilson (University of East Anglia), wel- comes the proposal within the Green Deal to stimulate the use of solid wall insulation, and praises the detailed consultation on some of the proposals. But it raises serious con- cerns that the rationale for some decisions has not been sufficiently well covered, and that key issues – such as how to prevent the ‘Big 6’
energy companies from dominating the market, or overcome the barriers preventing local authorities from engaging in local partnerships – have not been addressed. UKERC would welcome greater
clarification as to how the Green Deal will fit with, and complement other reforms and initiatives being pro- posed, such as the Renewable Heat Incentive and Feed-in Tariffs. Plans to end all subsidies under the Carbon Saving obligation of the Energy Company Obligation for demand side measures other than solid wall insu- lation, for example, are anomalous in the context of the planned Electricity Market Reform to introduce subsi- dies for all low carbon electricity supply technologies, and will create a market distortion between supply and demand. Dr Nick Eyre comments: “We
support the underlying idea behind the Green Deal – it’s a good idea to bring new sources of finance into low energy refurbishment of buildings and pay for the costs from reduced energy bills. But the detail of the pro- posals is very worrying – it will reduce rates of insulation and have a detrimental impact on the ability of the UK to meet its carbon targets. Subsidising energy supply, but not energy efficiency improvement, makes no sense.”
Gradient puts a new angle on TV’s Grand Designs
waves when they were featured on Channel 4’s Grand Designs series. A Gradient solution was specified
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by London architect Ian Hogarth of Hogarth Architects for Hole House – his own dream home project, which formed the centrepiece for an epi- sode of the popular programme. The five-floor 2,500 sq ft Hole
House project will also include insula- tion from Gradient’s parent company, Recticel Insulation Products, with its
he unique single-layer flat roofing solutions, provided by Gradient Flat Roofing, hit the air-
high performance Eurothane GP board being used on the pitched roof parts of the property. “I was confident that the company
could help me achieve Level Five of the Code for Sustainable Homes... Once we realised how quickly and efficiently the Gradient insulation could be specified and supplied we altered one of our office standard roofing specs to accommodate it,” says Ian Hogarth.
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