Climate Resilience 2024: Speakers Announced

Speakers have been announced for Festival of Place: Climate Resilience, an online conference taking place on 25-26 November with 8 sessions available to live stream over two lunches and available on demand.

 

This year’s event focusses on case studies and learnings regarding rainwater attenuation, flood resilience, fuel poverty, net zero accreditation, retrofit, designing for a warmer UK and urban social resilience.

 

The conference is sponsored by Civic Engineers who will sharing their holistic, people-centred and climate sensitive approach to urban engineering design. 

 

Speakers include:

 

Dr Macarena Cárdenas, Senior Advisor, Resilience and Nature, UKGBC will be charting the built environment’s path to climate resilience: What does a climate resilient built environment look like and how do we get there? How do we assess the vulnerability of our buildings and their communities?

Damien Sharkey, Managing Director, HUB will be discussing how to repurpose commercial buildings into quality homes and living spaces. Learn what makes a building suitable for conversion and why not all offices make good homes. Sharkey will also be sharing a case study of Cornerstone, a 1950s commercial building on Beech Street in the City of London that has won planning permission to be transformed into 174 co-living homes.

Isla Jackson, Director, Civic Engineers and Prof. Vernon Phoenix, Head Of Department, Civil and Environmental Engineering will be discussing how raingardens can solve multiple challenges and create liveable, walkable and healthier neighbourhoods with greater biodiversity.

Celia Davis, Senior Project & Policy Manager, TCPA will be sharing her research into delivering flood resilience through the planning system in England.

Imandeep Kaur, co-founder and director, Civic Square will be envisioning life in a 3 degree neighbourhood and sharing how we might reimagine and “re-infrastructure” neighbourhoods to rebuild the social and organisational networks for a more unpredictable world.

Emma Fletcher, Low Carbon Homes Director, Octopus Energy will be sharing how Octopus Energy is accrediting homes with Zero Bills for developers, housing associations and local authorities

Marion Baeli, co-author of Retrofit Revisit and Principal, Sustainability Transformation at 10 Design and Julie Godefroy, Head of Net Zero Policy, CIBSE will be sharing their Retrofit Revisit - a piece of research that learns from studying the performance of 10 retrofit projects a decade since their retrofit.

Dr Jane Anderson, LCA Construction and Technical Steering Group of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard will be sharing the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard and how it can be applied to mixed-use places and spaces. What you need to know about its development and implementation?