Speakers and presentation downloads
Session 1: Health and wellbeing
Welcome to Healthy Buildings 2024
Chair, The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products
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.
Meaghan Kombol – Lead Sustainability Design Advisor for Green Infrastructure at The Department for Education
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.
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 it’s important to properly describe waste
- What 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
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.
Session 2: ASBP Awards 2024
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
Finalist #1 – Washbox
Andrew Crimston, Washbox
Finalist #2 – EMR Reusable Steel
Tom Howarth, EMR
Finalist #3 – ADEPT modular construction system
Chloe Donovan, Natural Building Systems
Finalist #1 – Qflow
Brittany Harris, Qflow
Finalist #2 – Preoptima
Sarah Saxton, Preoptima
Finalist #3 – Grosvenor Supplier Mentorship Programme
Eve Bellers, Grosvenor
Session 3: The biodiversity crisis
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 – an initiative to spotlight game-changing biobased materials from around the world
Maisie McKenzie
Biodiversity Manager at Wienerberger UK & Ireland
Let’s 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.
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
An introduction to the IMPACTT project
Dr. Asselia Katenbayeva – Research Associate, ASBP
Forestry, biodiversity and sourcing cross laminated timber (CLT)
Mila Duncheva – Business Development Manager UK & Ireland, Stora Enso
Mass timber case studies from the IMPACTT project
Adedayo Shittu-Balogun – Director of Projects, Eurban
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. 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
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.
Partner, Cullinan Studio
Case studies
- Beormund SEMH School in Southwark
- The Catkin Centre and Sunflower House, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
- Maggie’s Newcastle Annexe