Wednesday 26th February 2014
Building a Resilient Future
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Building a Resilient Future The focus of this event is to establish the latest thinking and best practice around integrating climate change adaptation and resilience into built environment projects, and to highlight and promote the opportunities for the UK built environment sector. A range of drivers, approaches and tools which support the understanding, communication, and development of the ‘business case’ for climate change adaptation and resilience will be highlighted. The benefits of attending will include networking, finding out about business opportunities and helping to shape the discussion about the future of climate change adaptation in the built environment.
The event will be the final dissemination activity for the TSB funded competition Design for Future Climate. The competition funded project teams to consider climate change impacts in the design of real life construction and building refurbishment projects in the UK.
The format of the day will comprise: seven sessions with a series of presentations; a panel session for wider discussion, and will end with an exhibition, ideas and networking opportunity. •
Session 1 - What do we know about climate change and the impacts of extreme weather?
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Session 2 - How significant is the risk of climate change to UK building projects?
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Session 3 - Perspectives from the ‘Design for future climate competition’ project teams.
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Session 4 - Activity and insights from the wider built environment community.
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Session 5 - Who and what are the drivers of change for thinking and practice?
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Session 6 (panel session) - What’s the opportunity for built environment clients and professionals?
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Session 7 - Think piece and provocation for further discussion.
Questions to be addressed throughout the sessions include: •
How can a better understanding of projected climate change, extreme weather events contribute to building a more resilient future?
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What and where is the latest best practice and forward thinking about climate change adaptation and resilience in the built environment?
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What are the existing and emerging drivers for incorporating climate change adaptation and resilience into building and built environment projects?
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What are the opportunities and challenges?
Agenda 9:00 Registration and exhibition with tea/coffee/refreshments 9:30 Chair’s welcome - Robin Nicholson, Cullinan Studio Outline of agenda for the day Overview of TSB/D4FC programme - Mark Wray, Technology Strategy Board (TSB) 9:45 Session 1 - What do we know about climate change and the impacts of extreme weather? Roger Street, UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)/Adaptation and Resilience in the Context of Change Network (ARCCN) - “Role of information on climate change and extremes in informing decisions” Juliette Daniels, London Climate Change Partnership (LCCP) and Climate UK - “Networked adaptation: building national resilience through local action” Polly Turton, Arup - “Extreme weather and the changing New York state of mind” 10:15 Session 2: How significant is the risk of climate change to UK building projects? Bill Gething, Sustainability & Architecture Q&A 10:50 Break – tea/coffee/refreshments 11:15 Session 3: Perspectives from the ‘Design for future climate competition’ project teams John Davies, Derwent London “A developer’s view on designing for future climate” David Gale, Gale & Snowden Architects - “Designing a resilient and healthy future” Andrew Cripps, AECOM - “AECOM’s experience from the D4FC programme and beyond” 12:00 Session 4: Activity and insights from the wider built environment community Caroline Duckworth, Environment Agency - “Climate ready support service: key priorities and projects to enable adaptation in the built environment” Anastasia Mylona, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)/ Adaptation and Resilience in the Context of Change Network (ARCCN) “Resources available for adapting buildings to the impacts of climate change” Dr Peter Gist, Arup - “Building a resilient future: an economic perspective” John Kolm-Murray, London Borough of Islington - “Adaptive capacity and climate resilience in the London Borough of Islington” Q&A 12:50 Morning round up - Robin Nicholson (Chair) 13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 5: Who and what are the drivers of change for thinking and practice? Dr Richenda Connell, Acclimatise - “Making climate resilience happen lessons learned on what works and what doesn’t” Paul Nichols, Southampton City Council - “Local and community level adaptation to climate change” Munish Datta, Marks & Spencer - “The business imperative for buildings that are adapted for inevitable climate change” Louise Clarke, Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) - “Drivers of change from the survey results of the design for future climate (D4FC) competition winners and a construction industry perspective” Fiona Shaw, Willis Group - “Insurance as a driver of change” 14:50 Break – tea/coffee/refreshments 15:20 Session 6: What’s the opportunity for built environment clients and professionals? Robin Nicholson (Chair) Open panel discussion between: Bill Gething, Sustainability & Architecture David Gale, Gale & Snowden Architects Andrew Cripps, AECOM David Beamont, Victoria Business Improvement District (BID) Julia Barrett, Willmott Dixon Re-Thinking Munish Datta, Marks & Spencer Q&A 16:20 Session 7: Think piece and provocation for further discussion Jonathan Smales, Beyond Green - “The urgent and remarkable future: how shall we live?” 16:50 Thanks and closing remarks - Robin Nicholson (Chair) 17:00 Networking and exhibition with drinks and canapés Opportunity for sharing ideas and making comments 19:00 Close
Biographies Robin Nicholson
Mark Wray
Robin Nicholson is a senior partner of Cullinan Studio, which he joined in 1979. He is Convenor of the multi-disciplinary construction industry think-tank, The Edge, and chairs the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel. Robin is a board member of the National House Building Council, is one of the Design Council CABE’s Design Review Chairs and has recently been appointed an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham.
Mark is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Lead Technologist for the Technology Strategy Board in the Low Impact Buildings Programme – responsible for the programme management of the TSB’s Design for Future Climate Change, Invest in Innovative Refurbishment and Integrating with Sustainable Infrastructure programmes. Mark has expert knowledge of the challenges of delivering buildings fit for our changing futures.
Previously he was a Vice-President of the RIBA (1992-94), Chairman of the CIC (Construction Indsutry Council) (1998-2000) and founder member of the Movement for Innovation Board (1998-2001). He was a CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) Commissioner (2002-10), and chaired the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) Zero Carbon (Schools) Task Force (2009-10).
Prior to this new venture Mark spent 7 years as the sustainable construction lead at the SW Regional Development Agency after 10 years in private practice in the infrastructure sector (mainly water).
Trained at Cambridge and the Bartlett, Robin was job architect for James Stirling’s Olivetti Training Centre (1970-73) and then worked in Chile with Cristian Boza. He taught at the Bartlett (1974-76) and then the Polytechnic of North London (PNL) (1976-79).
Mark has kept a balanced approach to his professional development with specialist cutting edge experience in sustainable development, whole life carbon management, renewable energy technologies, programme and project management and in depth knowledge of the public sector.
Roger Street Roger Street is the Director, Adaptation Science within the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University. He is also the Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) Climate Adaptation Fellow. At UKCIP, he provides the strategic direction for the programme, and leads its technical and scientific work aimed at guiding risk, vulnerability and adaptation assessments, and at delivering credible and salient resources and tools. Roger plays a leading role in the UK and within related international activities on developing and presenting climate information that can inform these assessments and subsequent adaptation decisions. He also leads the Adaptation and Resilience in the Context of Change Network that coordinates researcher and other stakeholder engagement in the delivery of quality research and relevant outputs that best meet their needs focusing on the built environment and infrastructure sectors.
Juliette Daniels Juliette Daniels is Partnership Manager of the London Climate Change Partnership (LCCP) and Director and Co-Founder of Climate UK. Juliette’s role in LCCP is the overall executive management of the Partnership, which is focussed on adaptation to future climate change and resilience to current extreme weather. Juliette serves on the board of directors of Climate UK, and also holds the executive portfolios for Health and Business Development. In response to dramatic changes in the public sector landscape in the UK, Juliette worked with fellow directors to find a new national model for delivering climate adaptation which would work at the scale it is relevant: the local level. The result was the creation of Climate UK as a community interest company, an umbrella organisation that connects the 12 independent climate change partnerships in the UK. Before joining LCCP in 2010, Juliette worked for the Environment Agency. During this time she worked in communications and stakeholder engagement, specialising in managing relationships with local government, committees and politicians on a range of climate change, environment protection and water resource issues. Juliette’s formal training is as an editor, and prior to her work in the environment sector she was a freelance editor and project manager, mainly dealing with the publication of politics books.
Biographies Polly Turton Polly Turton is a senior climate change adaptation consultant based in Arup’s Advanced Technology and Research (AT+R) team. She manages research, assessment, design and consultancy projects for a range of clients and contributes to the coordination and delivery of Arup’s climate change impact, risk, resilience and adaptation work. Her area of expertise is the multi-disciplinary understanding of how weather and climate change impacts affect urban environments, communities, critical infrastructure and interdependent systems. A key aspect of her work is to ensure integration of climate change adaptation strategies with wider strategies for climate change mitigation, sustainable development, urban planning, design, engineering and architecture. She is experienced in understanding and communicating how consideration of current and future climates can add social, environmental and economic value to projects, organisations, cities and people. From 2001-2008 Polly worked at CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) where she led the development and delivery of CABE’s work on research, policy and practice relating to sustainable urban development, climate change, green infrastructure, public space and health. Polly has been extensively involved in the Climate Change Adaptation work programme of the TSB funded Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network (MBE KTN) since 2009.
Bill Gething
John Davies
Bill Gething is an architect and sustainability consultant, having been a long-standing partner of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
John Davies is the Head of Sustainability at Derwent London PLC, and is responsible for creating and leading the company wide sustainability agenda.
He is Professor of Architecture at the University of the West of England and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. He was an RIBA Council member from 2002 to 2008 and the President’s Sustainability Advisor from 2002 to 2009.
John is a highly experienced sustainability management professional, with over 15 years in industry. He is recognised as an expert in several sectors, in particular commercial property, and has developed and led the creation of many industry leading sustainability programmes. He writes extensively in the sustainability press and sits on many industry panels and committees.
He wrote the briefing report to support design teams involved with Technology Strategy Board’s Design for Future Climate (D4FC) programme and his recently published book, Design for Climate Change, draws out lessons learnt in the first tranche of 24 Design for Future Climate projects providing practical guidance and examples of best practice for the industry. He led the team that developed the Green Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work and also contributed to the development of the RIBA Plan of Work 2013. He is a Design Council CABE Built Environment Expert, a member of BRE Global’s Governing Body and chair of the Concept Design and Planning stage work-group contributing to the Zero Carbon Hub’s programme aimed at narrowing the gap between design intent and built performance of new housing.
Prior to joining Derwent London John was Head of Sustainability at Davis Langdon where was responsible for developing and delivering its range of sustainability services and forming strong relationships across its key client base. Before joining Davis Langdon John worked in the client domain as a sustainability advisor on range of major projects and organisations, most notably at BAA, where he lead the sustainability agenda within the T5 design phase and the £10bn Capital Projects function as their Capital Projects Sustainability Manager.
David Gale Gale & Snowden Architects, based in Exeter, have dedicated their work exclusively to ecological and healthy design for over 20 years, working throughout the UK. David is a founder member and directs the vision of the practice and is responsible for design, project delivery and R&D. David’s background is in Biology, having studied Applied Biological Sciences at Bristol. He then continued his studies in Architecture at Plymouth and Canterbury Schools of Architecture where David received the RIBA Presidents Silver Award in 1990 for his design work, dissertation and research on Hassan Fathy’s Earthen Architecture in Egypt. An architect that holds a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design, David’s work focuses on regenerative design based on Permaculture principles. Gale & Snowden’s work integrates ecology, building physics, building biology, architecture and landscape design in a desire to create healthy uplifting environments that are life enhancing. The practice has delivered three projects under the TSB’s Design for Future Climate (D4FC) funding stream and now incorporates the lessons learnt in all projects. Gale & Snowden also offer a stand-alone D4FC consultancy service as a result of their TSB research work.
Biographies Andrew Cripps Andrew is a Regional Director within the AECOM sustainability team, based in their St Albans office. He has extensive experience of leading and managing research projects and activities, including the supervision of EngD research, selecting projects for funding bodied and chairing the management board of the Loughborough University Engineering Doctorate Steering Board. He also has a leading role in directing AECOM internal research and innovation activities. He takes the lead for the sustainability team on climate change adaptation and was Project Director for two TSB ‘Design for Future Climate’ grant funded projects. In these we developed climate change adaptation strategies for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the Welcome Trust Research Hub. He has been engaging with TSB in developing thinking on the business case for climate change adaptation.
Caroline Duckworth
Dr Anastasia Mylona
Caroline is the Built Environment theme lead for Climate Ready, the Environment Agency’s support service to help businesses and public sector adapt to the changing climate. She has worked at the Environment Agency for 4 years and spent the last 18 months in this role. Prior to this, Caroline worked in planning consultancy focusing on planning and sustainability issues.
Dr Anastasia Mylona is based at the Environmental Change Institute, at the University of Oxford, and is working for the Adaptation and Resilience in the Context of Change Network (ARCCN) providing technical advice and stakeholder perspective to the Network’s research portfolio. Her responsibilities include working with research projects that are looking at the adaptation of the built environment to the impacts of climate change, to promote the practical application of their research outputs.
Through the Built Environment theme Caroline seeks to encourage a range of stakeholders to adapt to future climate and extreme weather. This includes engagement through local government and communities, planning and design professionals, developers and economic partnerships and the construction sector. Projects undertaken consider actions that can be taken at the strategic to building scale, including both new and existing development. Caroline works closely with others across the Climate Ready Support Service, in particular business and services, health and wellbeing, local government and natural environment themes.
Anastasia is also working as a technical consultant at CIBSE (the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) leading the development of technical guidance on climate change impacts and adaptation, and the climate and weather information required for the future proofing of building and their services. This dual role puts her in a unique position to optimize the knowledge transfer between research and industry.
Dr Peter Gist Peter is a Director in the Arup Management Consultancy team and has over 30 years’ experience as a consultant economist. Peter specialises in business case development and investment appraisal in the transport, telecommunications and energy sectors, and has extensive international experience in both the public and private sectors. Peter was an economics lecturer at London Business School for over 10 years, prior to joining the Privatisation Services team at Price Waterhouse Coopers. He subsequently ran his own economics consultancy business and joined Arup when it acquired his firm in 1999. Peter works with colleagues throughout Arup to provide integrated technical and commercial consultancy services. Recent assignments include the UK Government review of rolling stock value for money (Sir Roy McNulty review), an economic development plan for Bethlehem and business planning for the Olympic Parklands in legacy. He is a member of the Arup consortium team undertaking research for the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) on climate change adaptation for the railways. In addition to his consulting activities, Peter is one of the Directors responsible for Arup’s own venture activities and sits on the board of the Arup-Mitsui joint venture to develop sustainable transport and energy projects.
Biographies John Kolm-Murray
Dr Richenda Connell
John has worked on fuel poverty in Glasgow and London and is currently Seasonal Health and Affordable Warmth Co-ordinator at the London Borough of Islington, leading on affordable warmth and seasonal health work. In addition to developing policy and strategy John manages a number of programmes, including the successful Seasonal Health Interventions Network (SHINE), aiming to reduce seasonal excess deaths and emergency hospital admissions. He has also been involved in a number of research projects looking at resilience to overheating amongst older people in high-density Islington housing.
Dr Richenda Connell is Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Acclimatise, an advisory firm specialised in climate change adaptation. Richenda advises businesses, governments and international finance institutions on how to make activities resilient to climate risks, and on adaptation market opportunities. She has helped formulate the adaptation strategies of some of the world’s largest companies.
His main interests are in the prevention of seasonal health inequalities, protecting the most vulnerable against the impacts of climate change and addressing the challenges of energy efficiency in inner cities. Recently he won a European Union innovation prize for his team’s work on SHINE. In 2013 he joined the NICE Public Health Advisory Committee on Excess Winter Deaths.
She has developed guidance and led assessments on climate vulnerabilities, risks and adaptation for the built environment for clients including the European Commission, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank, London Climate Change Partnership, City of London Corporation and TCPA. She sits on the Steering Group of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), which is devoted to cutting-edge research on climate change and the built environment. Prior to Acclimatise, Richenda was Technical Director and Deputy Director at the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP), and an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) consultant at Environmental Resources Management (ERM).
Paul Nichols Paul currently manages the Planning, Transport and Sustainability services at Southampton City Council. This includes responsibility for the city’s partnership with Cofely UK, who operate Southampton’s city centre geothermal combined heat and power (CHP) scheme, and for a rapidly developing energy programme in the city and South Hampshire. This work is being taken forward alongside the city’s sustainable travel, public realm and flood risk management programmes to support the delivery of an ambitious city centre master-plan. Paul has been in his current role since 2002 and before that worked in a range of planning consultancy roles in the UK and internationally, with a particular focus on coastal planning and the sustainable development of small island states.
Munish Datta Munish heads the creation of the strategy and delivery of Plan A, M&S’s well known sustainability programme, for M&S properties across the world. He also heads the team that delivers facilities management for the M&S Global Headquarters in London. Within its built environment estate, the highly successful plan has enabled the retailer to become 31% more energy efficient, 27% more water efficient, divert all waste from landfill, become an industry leader in sourcing sustainable materials and launch award winning sustainable learning retail stores in Sheffield, Stratford, Cheshire Oaks and recently New Delhi. Since 2006, applying Plan A to M&S properties has contributed to £70 million in savings. Munish contributes to several industry task Groups, is a member of the UK Government’s Green Construction Board Buildings Working Group, the UBM Ecobuild advisory board and on the editorial board of Sustain Magazine. He speaks regularly at industry events and conferences and is a regular guest speaker at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. Munish loves to exchange ideas on twitter @MunishDatta.
Biographies Louise Clarke Louise is a project manager at CIRIA with experience on a range of sustainability issues including: green infrastructure; biodiversity; climate change adaptation, and sustainable water management. Louise has been involved in working with industry to deliver a number of guidance documents on these subjects including ‘Water Sensitive Urban Design’, ‘Sustainable procurement in construction’ and ‘The International Levee Handbook’. Louise has been extensively involved in the Climate Change Adaptation work programme of the TSB funded Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network (MBE KTN) since 2009. Louise also chairs the 2050 Group which is a group of young professionals in the industry and sits on the Construction Leadership Council.
Fiona Shaw Fiona is responsible for ensuring that Willis’s Global Analytics team meets the growing demand for analytical services from the Group’s international clients and prospects. This includes leading the incorporation of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing data into risk assessment tools and models. She began her career at Willis in 1987. After 13 years as a retail insurance broker, Fiona moved to Willis Re’s R&D team where initial responsibilities included managing data acquisition for the building of a national earthquake model and consulting on the development of a UK flood model for a major UK insurer. More recently, Fiona took a leading role in the development of the international Catastrophe Management Services team of Willis Re Analytics. Fiona graduated from the University of St. Andrews with a BSc. (Hons) in Geography and later completed a MSc. in Geographic Information at City University, London. She is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute
David Beamont David Beamont leads on environmental and sustainability projects at the Victoria Business Improvement District (BID). Victoria BID was established in 2010 and brings together the business community to help shape and influence Victoria’s future development and infrastructure, positioning Victoria as a vibrant and thriving destination to be enjoyed again and again. David manages projects such as installing new and enhancing existing green space in order to harness the business, public health, and environmental benefits they provide and to create a more sustainable urban environment that is better equipped to deal with the anticipated effects of climate change. Other projects include raising the profile of air quality with businesses and exploring topics such as the supply chain and the built environment, local area research with Defra, and a beekeeping programme that has seen local workers and residents trained as beekeepers and beehives installed. David has worked in the environment and communication sectors for nearly 15 years and in 2011 completed an MA in Geography at Kings College London that focussed on climate change, carbon, and risk.
Julia Barrett Julia Barrett is the Director of Re-Thinking, Willmott Dixon’s in-house consultancy where she provides leadership and strategic support on sustainable development across the Willmott Dixon Group. In 2012 Willmott Dixon became the first major contractor to become carbon neutral as well as achieving the Carbon Trust Standard for its approach to energy and carbon management. In 2008 it set an industry leading zero waste to landfill target, achieving 95% in 2012 with an ongoing commitment to reduce construction waste by 5% year on year. Julia is an environment and sustainability professional who has worked in both the private and public sectors. She has experience of policy, strategy and operational delivery in areas including climate change mitigation and adaptation, resource efficiency, spatial planning and regulation.
Jonathan Smales Jonathan Smales is a sustainable developer with 30 years of reckless optimism behind him. A keen interest in people, cities, place and design of all kinds, he is Executive Chairman of the Beyond Green group of companies whose collective strap line is ‘How Shall We Live?’. The group includes Beyond Green Developments (working on strategic land and residential-led mixed–use projects), Remarkable Cities (Leadership programmes), Beyond Green Policy, Planning and Analytics (consulting) and Schulze & Grassov (urban design and sustainable public realm). Sadly, still the most interesting thing about him is that he was once a Director of Greenpeace.