Two-days, in-person event: this conference will focus on the key role of forestry and timber construction in addressing the climate crisis.
Events
26th January 2023 – Rethinking IWI with Natural Fibre Insulation
Join ASBP and members of our Natural Fibre Insulation Group for a deep dive session into thermal upgrades
18th Jan 2023 – Passivhaus Social Housing Event
Join the Passivhaus Trust and discover more about why Passivhaus is being adopted by so many local councils and how to deliver high quality
Natural Fibre Insulation Summit 2022
Join The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) and members of the Natural Fibre Insulation Group on Thursday 3rd November, 2-4pm for the inaugural Natural Fibre Insulation
October 10th 2022 – Delivering Domestic BPE in a Digital + Data-Driven World – On-Construction
Building performance evaluation has a reputation of being longwinded, intrusive and complicated. Established techniques often require residents to vacate a property, that tests are done over several weeks at a certain times of the year and involve convoluted equipment set-ups. But does it have to be like this? Technology and methods of assessment have changed […]
July 13th 2022 – How to retrofit walls externally with natural insulation
‘How-to’ event introducing the use of natural insulation as a solution to the external insulation of walls. About this event The UK has 28.5m homes, and some of the oldest homes in Europe. Wales has 1.35m or 5% of UK homes and almost a third were built before 1919. Most are of solid wall construction […]
July 6, 2022 – How to retrofit walls internally with natural insulation
‘How-to’ event introducing the use of natural insulation as a solution to the internal insulation of walls. There are approximately 28.5 million homes in the UK consisting of the oldest housing in Europe. Wales has 5% of the UK housing which in turn is the oldest in the UK, with 32% of buildings constructed before […]
June 23, 2022 – How to sustainably produce the timber we need for a zero-carbon Wales
Interactive forest walk looking at how Welsh forests can sustainably provide the timber resource needed for our future zero carbon society. “Wood is the only advanced industrial material that we can use more of and mitigate climate change at the same time” – Welsh Minister for Climate Change Julie James MS. As simple as this […]
June 21, 2022 – How to plan and execute Building Performance Evaluation for retrofit
BPE challenge of retrofit, from initial surveying through modelling solutions, installing measures and managing the asset into the future. To meet our targets for reducing carbon we have to focus on the homes we’ve already built as well as the ones we’re building now. Our existing homes pose a particular challenge because of the way […]
June 17, 2022 – How to create buildings that work: techniques for measuring building performance
Practical steps for measuring how buildings are performing in reality that can be adopted by housing providers and their design teams. The period of low-cost energy is over. To address ‘affordable warmth’ as well as our climate change obligations we need to use a lot less energy and at the same time switch to renewable […]
