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Building Performance

Healthy Buildings Conference & Expo 2025

January 2, 2025 by Sarah Lawton

Wed 26 Feb 2025 | 9:30-17:00, The Human Rights Action Centre, London EC2A 3EA

Filed Under: Building Performance, Building Regulations & WDQR, Construction, Design & Specification, Events, Housing, New-Build, Retrofit, Whole Life Carbon Tagged With: Upcoming Events

The Secret Campsite honoured for sustainable design excellence at the Scottish Structural Awards

November 19, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Embracing the principles of a circular economy by prioritised material reuse not just at the end of the building’s life but from the very beginning led to a remarkably low-carbon and low-cost building

Filed Under: Building Performance, Construction, Design & Specification, Housing, News Tagged With: Building Elements, Building Performance, Circular economy, Structural Timber

Housing’s better future

October 31, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Social Housing Developers Community of Practice members enjoy a hosted tour to include both off-site creation of timber frame panels and on-site progress at the Gwynfaen Project

Filed Under: Building Performance, Communities of Practice, Construction, Home-Grown Homes, Housing, Manufacturing, New-Build, News, Projects & Ventures, Social Housing Development, Timber, Timber Frame, Timber Structures, Timber Systems, Welsh Timber Tagged With: Building Performance, Communities of Practice, Home Grown Homes, social housing development

Bio Materials in Retrofit: An Industry Perspective at AECB Annual Conference

October 15, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Applying best practice to create sustainable timber solutions for homes across Wales On Friday 27th September 2024 at 2pm during the AECB annual conference in The National Self Build & Renovation Centre in Swindon, audiences enjoyed a joint presentation from Dr Diana Waldron, Head of Built Environment for Woodknowledge Wales, and Richard Hawking, Technical Innovations […]

Filed Under: Building Performance, Construction, Design & Specification, Events, Home-Grown Homes, Housing, News, Projects & Ventures, Retrofit Tagged With: Home Grown Homes

Tasty takeaways from a day demystifying building standards 

May 15, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Tasty takaways from a day demystifying building performance standards 

Filed Under: Building Performance, Building Regulations & WDQR, Communities of Practice, Construction, Decarbonisation, Design, Design & Specification, Events, Housing, New-Build, News, Retrofit, Social Housing Development, Whole Life Carbon

Building performance evaluation by Woodknowledge Wales

April 3, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Woodknowledge Wales kicks of its building performance evaluation service at a Cardiff Council social housing scheme building site

Filed Under: Building Performance, Housing, News, Professional Services Tagged With: Building Performance

Sustainable Construction Careers Fair

February 7, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

6 March 2024, 11:30am – 14:30pm, Swansea Campus, IQ Building, IQ001-IQ002, Free to attend

Filed Under: Building Performance, Building Regulations & WDQR, Construction, Design & Specification, Events, Glulam, Home-Grown Homes, Housing, Mass Timber, New-Build, Projects & Ventures, Retrofit, Skills and Education, Timber, Timber Frame, Timber Structures, Whole Life Carbon Tagged With: events, Past Events, sustainability, timber construction

Home-Grown Homes Update

January 24, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

January 2024 – nine months into the second phase of the two-year project

Filed Under: Building Performance, Construction, Foundational Economy, Home-Grown Homes, Housing, News, Projects & Ventures, Sawmills, Timber, Uncategorized Tagged With: Home Grown Homes

New pods to bring built environment learners good fabric performance skills

January 24, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

University of Wales Trinity St David’s Construction Wales Innovation Centre welcomed delivery of two new building performance test pods designed specifically to provide hands-on learning around fabric-first building performance

Filed Under: Building Performance, Building Regulations & WDQR, Construction, Design & Specification, Housing, New-Build, News, Projects, Skills and Education, Timber Frame, Timber Structures, Uncategorized, Whole Life Carbon Tagged With: Building Elements, Building Performance, fabric first, Structural Timber

Free Technical Timber Webinars 2024 from BM TRADA

January 9, 2024 by Sarah Lawton

Webinars run throughout the year

Filed Under: Building Performance, Building Regulations & WDQR, Construction, Design & Specification, Events, Glulam, Housing, Maintenance, Mass Timber, New-Build, Retrofit, Skills and Education, Supply Chain, Timber, Timber Frame, Timber Structures, Whole Life Carbon Tagged With: Building Performance, Structural Timber, timber construction, timber fraime, timber in construction, timber properties, Upcoming Events

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