09:45-13.30 13 January | Construction Wales Innovation Centre, UWTSD, Swansea SA1 8EW
Dynamic workshop exploring how Building Performance Evaluation can help bridge the gap between design intent + real-world performance
Audience:
- Housing Associations (asset managers, development teams, sustainability leads)
- Local Authorities and Public Sector Housing Providers
- Housing Developers, Contractors and Design Teams
- Policy-makers (particularly housing, energy and decarbonisation)
- Built environment consultants (BPE specialists, retrofit advisors, QA/verification professionals)
- Researchers and industry partners working on low-carbon housing, timber construction or building performance
Location: Construction Wales Innovation Centre (CWIC), UWTSD, Kings Road, Swansea SA1 8EW
Join us for a half-day session demonstrating practical, evidence-based approaches to improving building outcomes.
Building on insights from the Home-Grown Homes Project and other collaborative work, this interactive session will showcase practical BPE methods, highlight lessons from pioneering case studies, and demonstrate how performance data can shape the homes we deliver. Together, we will explore future directions for affordable BPE and quality assurance.
Your input will guide the final stage of the HGH project, ensuring relevant outcomes for key sectors and helping embed performance throughout design, construction and post-occupancy to deliver homes that support comfort, efficiency and long-term quality.
Speaker: Dr Zachary Gill (EngD, CEng, CMVP, Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination), Director of SOAP Retrofit Ltd
Zack is a building performance expert, championing real-world measurement techniques and developing science-based retrofit approaches for UK homes (“if you don’t measure it you can’t manage it”). He co-authored the British Standard on Building Performance Evaluation (BS40101:2022) and is a steering committee member for PAS 2035. He also leads the Energiesprong UK team on performance measurement and technical design.
Speaker: Dr Richard Jack, Technical Director at Build Test Solutions
Richard is a building physicist with a passion for helping better understand buildings. He has spent his career developing testing scalable building performance measurement methods so that performance measurement and quality assurance can become as normal in the building industry as they are in every other field.
Programme:
- Welcome – Woodknowledge Wales
- Introduction – Purpose of the session & speakers
- Main Presentation – Insights from the Home-Grown Homes Project and future BPE directions and Hands-on BPE Demonstrations
- Stakeholder Discussion, Breakout sessions and Q&A
- Closing remarks – Next steps and information on future sessions
Registration
This in-person event is is free to attend but registration is required.
Spaces are limited, so please sign up soon.
