Speakers and presentation downloads
Session 1: Health and wellbeing
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Welcome to Healthy Buildings 2024
Chair, The Alliance for Sustainable Building Productsย
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Crawford Wright RIBA – Head of Architecture and Design: Schools and Colleges, The Department for Education
Keynote speakers: Biophilic Schools: maximising nature connectedness and measuring outcomes
The Department for Education (DfE) is committed to delivering a better environment for future generations: enhancing biodiversity and increasing access to, and connection with, nature in and around education and care settings, as set out in our Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy.
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Meaghan Kombol – Lead Sustainability Design Advisor for Green Infrastructure at The Department for Education
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Sani Dimitroulopoulou
Principal Environmental Public Health Scientist – Indoor Environments, UK Health Security Agency and Chair of UK Indoor Environments Group (UKIEG)
Latest research into VOCs and indoor air quality
- Presentation on concentrations and emissions from indoor sources for VOCs measured in European and UK residences.
- 65 individual VOCs were identified though a literature review.
- Health end points from inhalation exposure to these VOCs will be discussed.
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Graham Winter
Senior Advisor (Waste Strategy & Circular Economy), Environment & Business, Environment Agency
The POPs problem: Persistent organic pollutants
- Understanding waste
- Your Responsibilities (Duty of Care)
- Why itโs important to properly describe waste
- Whatย assessment is required
- Hazardous Waste and Persistent Organic Chemicals (POPs)
- What are POPs?
- Why are POPs a concern for the development sector?
- Why are POPs increasing and what are we doing about it?
- How to manage waste (Haz/POPs)
- Legal position (producers)
- The challenge for the Circular Economy
- Intro to CE concept
- How to manage waste (segregation) / avoid pops
- CE approach to C&D (inc procurement & product design
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Bella Murfin
Deputy Director for Trees, Woodlands & Forestry, Defra
Keynote speaker: Timber in Construction Roadmap
- Celebrate the importance of cross-sector partnership.
- Explore the opportunities and innovation set out in the Timber in Construction Roadmap.
- Build on the momentum surrounding the Timber in Construction Roadmap and action so far.
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Session 2: ASBP Awards 2024
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Finalist #1 – East Ham Old Fire Station
Tonia Tkachenko, DRMM Architects
Finalist #2 – Goldfinch Create & Play
Mark Finney, Seb + Fin Architects
Finalist #3 – Houlton Secondary School
Josh McCosh, van Heyningen and Haward Architects
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Finalist #1 – Washbox
Andrew Crimston, Washbox
Finalist #2 โ EMR Reusable Steel
Tom Howarth, EMR
Finalist #3 โ ADEPT modular construction system
Chloe Donovan, Natural Building Systems
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Finalist #1 โ Qflow
Brittany Harris, Qflow
Finalist #2 โ Preoptima
Sarah Saxton, Preoptima
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Finalist #3 – Grosvenor Supplier Mentorship Programme
Eve Bellers, Grosvenor
Session 3: The biodiversity crisis
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Joe Giddings – UK Network Lead, Built by Nature
An introduction to Built by Nature and update on funded projects and upcoming calls
- Introducing Built by Nature and our mission
- A provocation: Can we re-establish the harmony between the built environment and nature?
- A brief intro to our challenge, aiming to increase visibility of forestry throughout the value chain.
- An update on the Built by Nature Prize โ an initiative to spotlight game-changing biobased materials from around the world
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Maisie McKenzie
Biodiversity Manager at Wienerberger UK & Ireland
Letโs build with nature in mind
- How can specifiers promote biodiversity through the construction supply chain?
- Maisie will describe how Wienerberger is embedding biodiversity promotion into multiple aspects of the company.
- From product design and raw material sourcing, to land asset management, to curating impactful partnerships and encouraging others to take action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
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Dainis Dauksta
Managing Director, Wood Science Ltd and Specialist Advisor, Woodknowledge Wales
Forestry and biodiversity
- A brief history of ideas flowing into modern perceptions of sustainable forestry management.
- Principal drivers and indicators of biodiversity loss. Symbiosis, trade-offs and opportunities for timber production alongside promotion of biodiversity.
- Freestyle forestry management and adaptive construction design.
Biodiversity and supply chain transparency from forests to buildings
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An introduction to the IMPACTT project
Dr. Asselia Katenbayeva – Research Associate, ASBP
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Forestry, biodiversity and sourcing cross laminated timber (CLT)
Mila Duncheva – Business Development Manager UK & Ireland, Stora Enso
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Mass timber case studies from the IMPACTT project
Adedayo Shittu-Balogun – Director of Projects, Eurban
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Jez Ralph
Director, Evolving Forests
Biodiversity and product procurement
- New approaches to silviculture put complexity and soil-health as priorities to ensure a richer, more biodiverse and more resilient forest.
- The effect of this will be a more complex group of available raw materials.ย Different species in different sizes with different ages.
- Designers, developers, engineers, sawmills and foresters need to work together to evolve the palette of construction products to cope with this diversity
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Emre Turhan
Onshore Sales team, NatureMetrics
Measuring and monitoring biodiversity
- The need for a future-proof solution to understand site level risks & opportunities, translate this into broader ecosystem health and report effectively against the upcoming regulations.
- Challenges in measuring biodiversity, why conventional monitoring methods are no longer fit for purpose and how companies are held back by the complexities of nature.
- How NatureMetrics generate ground-truth data at scale, convert this into meaningful and actionable insights and allow easy reporting on ESG across entire portfolios within Forestry, Urban development and Infrastructure sectors.
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Partner, Cullinan Studio
Case studies
- Beormund SEMH School in Southwark
- The Catkin Centre and Sunflower House, Alder Hey Childrenโs Hospital
- Maggieโs Newcastle Annexe