Passivhaus enters the mainstream: exceptional operational performance of designed buildings

Name: Passivhaus enters the mainstream: exceptional operational performance of designed buildings
Start: 2014-06-25T00:00:00
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

25 June 2014
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Overview

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Passivhaus is an engineering approach to the low energy design of building giving a far better operational performance than required by current Building Regulations.

This is achieved through the use of extremely detailed design software PHPP which results in very low levels of energy required for heating the finished building. Operational experience shows that PHPP is an excellent predictor of final performance. The low heating costs make Passivhaus designs suitable for affordable homes and the avoidance of fuel poverty.

Passivhaus buildings also have excellent air quality making them ideal for schools and care homes.

This event will give details on the number of Passivhaus projects underway in the UK. This will also be an opportunity for delegates to hear the latest project news from speakers directly involved in the industry

Day 1

09:00 - REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

09:30 - CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS

09:35 - REVIEW OF MAJOR (LARGE SCALE) UK PASSIVHAUS PROJECTS

Kym Mead, Associate Director, Passivhaus Trust

10:00 - SCHOOLS AND LARGE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS

Jonathan Hines, Director, Architype/Archihaus

• The rationale and logic of Passivhaus as an economic solution for mainstream construction in the UK to deliver buildings that work and perform as they should, as evidenced by:
– The delivery of the UK’s first four Passivhaus schools
– The delivery of the UK’s first Passivhaus archive building and the UK’s first Passivhaus university building
– The progress of a new Passivhaus housing development company that will deliver Passivhaus as standard at standard price

10:25 - NEW LONDON PASSIVHAUS SCHOOL PROJECT AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE

Aurelie Cleraux, Bouygues Construction

10:50 - SPEAKER Q&A PANEL

• Kym Mead, Associate Director, Passivhaus Institute
• Jonathan Hines, Architype/Archihaus
• Aurelie Cleraux, Bougyes Construction

11:00 - NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:20 - AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Chris Parsons, Parsons and Whittley

• Methodology and design principles
• Energy and comfort
• Costs and payback; housing market anomalies

11:45 - THE ECOTECH BUILD SYSTEM – DELIVERING AFFORDABLE PASSIVE HOUSING

Mark Bradbury, Climate Energy Homes

• Is offsite manufacturing the solution to affordable Passivhaus?
• The ecoTECH build system
• Case study: Rainham Passivhaus for Circle Housing

12:10 - UEA ENTERPRISE CENTRE PHPP/BREEAM, EMBODIED CARBON AND LOCAL SOURCING

Benedict Binns, Programme Manager, University of East Anglia

• Client brief
• Winning tender
• Risks and challenges of Passivhaus
• Update on build

12:45 - SPEAKER Q&A PANEL

• Chris Parsons, Parsons and Whittley
• Mark Bradbury, Climate Energy Homes
• Benedict Binns, University of East Anglia

13:00 - NETWORKING LUNCH

14:00 - LOW ENERGY BUILDING PRACTICE

Sally Godber, Director, WARM

• What is the “performance gap” between design aspirations and construction, not only in terms of energy but also comfort performance? How buildings usually fail and the key principals required to minimise the gap.
• What Passivhaus does to address these issues; modelling of low energy buildings during the design, robust construction techniques and certification procedure.
• What problems large scale construction brings to Passivhaus in the UK; in particular how we maintain quality at scale: skilling up a greater workforce and getting suitable products into the market are key to this.

14:25 - ENGINEERING DESIGN FOR BUILDINGS

Nick Grant, Freelance Passivhaus consultant, Principal of Elementals Solutions, Technical Director of the Passivhaus Trust (voluntary)

• Creating beautiful energy efficient, comfortable and affordable buildings requires an integrated design approach with the whole team engaged in the creative process.
• Building engineers need to reclaim their role as designers not as technicians tasked with stopping ironic bridges from wobbling.
• Similarly Architects need to embrace the constraints imposed by the laws of nature.

14:50 - LARGE NON-DOMESTIC PASSIVHAUS

Stephen Ball, Director of Sustainability, Couch Perry and Wilkes (CPW)

• CPW: Zero Carbon Roadmap and how Passivhaus design slots in.
• Case study: 12,000m2 Medical Teaching Building for the University of Leicester – largest Passivhaus development in the UK.
• Passivhaus pros and cons – What’s good, what’s not so good.

15:15 - SPEAKER Q&A PANEL

• Sally Godber, Director, WARM
• Nick Grant, Freelance Passivhaus consultant, Principal of Elementals Solutions, Technical Director of the Passivhaus Trust (voluntary)
• Stephen Ball, Director of Sustainability, Couch Perry and Wilkes

15:25 - NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

15:45 - ASSESSMENT OF MVHR INSTALLATIONS

Michael Swainson, Principal Engineer, BRE/NHBC

• Mech Vent, Nat Vent and air tight buildings
• Experience of MVHRs in the UK
• The way forward for the UK

16:10 - CLOSING REMARKS

16:30 - END OF SEMINAR

Kym Mead: Associate Director, Passivhaus Trust

Kym Mead has recently joined the Passivhaus Trust where he is the technical lead.

Prior to joining the Passivhaus Trust Kym worked as Head of Low Carbon Buildings at BRE, where he offered and lead strategic advice on the design and construction of low energy buildings, which included consultancy and certification for the Passivhaus and EnerPHit standards. He has detailed knowledge in designing low energy buildings and has trained architects and services engineers in the Passivhaus standard. Kym is also part of the low carbon editorial board for Construction News.

Jonathan Hines: Director, Architype/Archihaus

Jonathan Hines’ focus is to design life enhancing genuinely sustainable architecture.

With a life-long commitment to social and environmental sustainability, Jonathan has led the team for many of Architype’s pioneering buildings including the Springhill Co-housing Scheme in Stroud, Architype’s own award winning sustainable office in Hereford, and the UK’s first BREEAM Excellent and Passivhaus schools. Jonathan has been involved in a number of national research projects. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Design Review Panel of the Design Commission for Wales. In 2011 he was named in a list of the top 50 people most influencing sustainable development in the UK.

Aurelie Cleraux: Project Manager, Bouygues UK

Aurélie Cleraux is a Project Manager at construction company Bouygues UK. Passionate about sustainable construction, she combines her engineering background with strong technical skills and sustainabi

Aurélie’s approach to collaboration and her commitment to using green technologies, materials and construction techniques was instrumental in delivering the design for London’s first Passivhaus School – Stebon Primary School in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Chris Parsons: Director, Parsons & Whittley LTD

Chris Parsons is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.

He has been working on delivering Passivhaus in the UK since 2009, when his practice was first appointed to deliver the ground breaking and award winning Wimbish Passivhaus rural affordable housing scheme. A firm believer in simplicity of detailing and using techniques that evolve from tried and tested UK standards, Chris has delivered over 28 certified Passivhaus units in the UK and his practice is currently working on 10 more projects delivering a total of 43 more Passivhaus units over the next 12 months.

Benedict Binns: Programme Manager, University of East Anglia

Benedict Binns oversees and co-ordinates all built environment related activity within the Adapt Low Carbon Group.

He joined the team in March 2010, taking the lead on the InCrops Enterprise Hub initiatives in creating low carbon supply chains using plant based materials in the built environment before taking up the post of Programme Manager for the Centre for the Built Environment. The Centre for the Built Environment draws upon a cluster of expertise within and outside UEA and will be housed in the new Exemplar Low Carbon Building which will be known as The Enterprise Centre – a £15m project supported by ERDF, BBSRC and involving a number of partners and stakeholders. Ben has been instrumental in setting ambitious sustainability targets for the building which include BREEAM Outstanding and Passivhaus certification and construction with the innovative use of local renewable materials.

Stephen Ball: Director of Sustainability, Couch Perry and Wilkes

Dr Stephen Ball joined environmental building services consultancy, Couch Perry Wilkes in 2007, and is now Director of Sustainability.

He has wide ranging commercial experience in the field of energy efficiency and environmental technology, including development work for British Gas and Ericsson. Stephen holds a PhD in Thermo-Fluid Dynamics and prior to joining CPW he was involved with Research and Development projects for the International Space Station, working closely with scientists and academics from NASA/MIT on thermal/energy performance and space flight qualification. As well as being a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Stephen is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist.

Mark Bradbury: Development Director, Climate Energy Homes

Mark Bradbury is Development Consultant to Climate Energy Homes, owners of the ecoTECH build system, a high quality offsite system delivering homes to Passivhaus and CfSH4+ quickly and cost effectivel

Mark has also worked with Regeneration and Development Agencies including the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation and the Greater London Authority. Mark has also sat on a number of advisory panels for bodies such as the Committee on Climate Change and the Institute for Sustainability.

Sally Godber: Director, WARM

Sally Godber started her career as a building services engineer specialising in renewable and low energy systems for a diverse range of sectors including historic, industrial and educational buildings

At WARM Sally’s main interest has been on comfort, and how this can be achieved alongside improved energy performance, an obvious partner for Passivhaus. Sally set up WARM in 2009 with her father, since then it has grown to be one of the largest consultancies specialising in Passivhaus in the UK, supporting design teams with a balance of theoretical and practical understanding of building physics.

Nick Grant: Technical Director (Voluntary), Passivhaus Trust

Nick Grant is a freelance building consultant with a lifelong passion for doing more with less.

Nick has no professional qualifications having dropped out of two universities in the 1980s to follow his interests. Whilst thankful for a basic grounding in engineering, he is mostly self-taught. His interest in closing the performance gap led him to his first Passivhaus conference in 2007. Nick is a practical engineer, tinkerer and self-builder with a keen interest in theory as a useful tool. He is known for questioning everything, including the need to question everything.

Michael Swainson: Principal Engineer, Building Diagnostics and HVAC Engineering

Michael Swainson BSc, MSc, PhD is principal engineer in BRE’s Building Diagnostics and HVAC Engineering team.

He has over 15 years experience designing and undertaking practical investigations into the performance of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems within buildings, both laboratory based and on site. Michael also lectures at Cranfield University on the MSc Energy Systems and Thermal Processes, in the areas of building services and energy auditing and on the Passivhaus Designer and Passivhaus Systems Installer course at BRE in the areas of mechanical ventilation and heating systems.

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