Past Events
The events that have taken place to date are listed below. For each event the presentations will be posted on the site so that they are available to download. People attending these events come from both the demand and the supply sides of the construction industry. More than half typically are contractors, architects, engineers and surveyors, with smaller number from a wide range of other types of organisations – local authorities, housing associations, suppliers, research and advisory organisations, NGOs and higher education.
Past events to date include:
Waste & Sustainable Procurement: the road to resource efficent low carbon buildings
24th October
Organised by the NW Strategic Construction Waste Forum
Presentations were delivered by:
Sue Hornby (Scot Wilson) on behalf of - WRAP
Andy Scully - Envirowise
James Griffin - Envirolink
Steve Hall - Birse
Warren Hough - Mayfield
Tony Scott - MWDA
Jon Tivey - Wates
Carbon: Reducing the Energy Consumption of Buildings
14th October
Carbon emissions may be generated in a number of different ways during the construction process and once the building is in use. North West Regional Development Agency Sustainable Building Policy is concerned only with the energy that is used in the operation of buildings - buildings using some 48% of all energy. The goal of the policy is to minimise the use of fossil fuels used by buildings in heating, lighting and ventilation by either reducing the requirement for energy overall, or using non-fossil fuels such as wind, solar or other renewable sources.
Presentations were delivered by:
Emma Kyng: CCI - Introduction to the Sustainable Buildings Programme
Mark Joslyn: NWDA - The Development Agencies Postion on Carbon
Dan Whittaker: Enviros - Introduction to Low Carbon Technologies
Tawi Saran: BRE - Feed-in-Tarrifs & BREEAM Energy
Donna Munro: Photovoltaics in Use
Alex Solk: Sheppard Robson - Low Carbon Technologies in Use
Malcolm Beck: Carbon Trust - How They Can Help You
Business: Supply Chain Management
24th September
This policy objective is concerned with supporting the idea that NWDA grant funding supports businesses at a regional and sub-regional level. ‘To ensure that development contributes to the sustainable economic vitality of the local area and region...as well as sustaining existing and successful economies in the region, there is a need to ensure we find new and imaginative ways to build thriving and sustainable local economies’ NWDA Sustainable Building Policy.
Presentations were delivered by:
Emma Kyng: CCI
Jayne Lomas: HCA
Bill Taylor: Fusion 21
Cath Pickup: Innovista .
Jeff Smithson: Elevate
Phil Burgess: Wilmott Dixon
Communities, Emmployment and Training
14th July
Communities
At the most basic level this policy commitment asks that Project Applicants consider the needs of the community in which they are working and show consideration during the design and development of the project. At a more complex level there may be considerations about how a project engages with the community through related projects or specific project outcomes for community groups. This would be particularly important for projects such as regeneration projects. Possible actions are 1) Considerate Constructors scheme 2) Community Engagement 3) Stakeholder Involvement 4) Community Projects
Employment and Training
The North West Regional Development Agency are concerned with the objectives of linking people to employment and integrating regional skills activities into Sub-Regional Partnerships and key strategic sites.
This event provided presentations that explained how to deliver these objectives on projects.
Presentations:
Emma Kyng: CCI - NWDA Sustainable Buildings Programme
Jon Merrick: NWDA – The Agencies Position on Communities, Employment and Training
Community:
Phil Power: Considerate Constructor Scheme
Dave Noar: Mayfield Construction – Considerate Constructor Scheme and Community Engagement
Rukhsana Nabi: Emanuel Whittaker – Engaging with Communities
Jason Easy: Manchester Working - Community Projects and Engaging with Communities
Employment & Training:
Richard MacFarlane: Targeted Recruitment and Training – employment and training contract clauses
Ian Hunter: Construction Skills – the range of courses available
Paula Parker: Job Centre Plus – Employment and Training National Initiatives
Rob Wellman: Summit Skills – Areas Available
Rukhsana Nabi: Emmanuel Whittaker - Equality & Diversity and Recruitment
Warren Hough: Mayfield Construction – St Helens Case study
Natalie Tordoff: Adactus Housing Association Miles Platting
Water Management
17th June
North West Regional Development Agency are not only concerned with the objective for buildings to use less potable mains water for non-drinking, but the way in which surface water runs off developments must also be considered. The goal of the policy is to minimise the use of potable water for non-potable purposes in buildings through the more efficient use of potable water by the installation and use of fixtures and fittings such as low-water-use WCs, taps and appliances and the replacement of potable water with non-potable water sources through water harvesting and grey water recycling such as the collection and storage of rain from roofs and the collection and reuse of shower, bath and tap water.
Presentations:
Emma Kyng: CCI - NWDA Sustainable Buildings Programme
Matt Waltho: NWDA - The Development Agencies Position on Water
Mark Hilton: Enviros - Introduction to the Sustainable use of Water
Collin Woods: Envirowise – Best practice examples demonstrating how cost savings can be achieved.
Alex Solk: Sheppard Robson - Examples of Good Practice
Jo Bradley: Environment Agency – Sustainable Urban Drainage
Gerry Quinn: Kingspan Environmental – Examples of surface water management and conservation
Tarwinder Saran: BRE - Water and BREEAM
For The Associated Factsheet Click Here
Sustainable Buildings Conference
21st May
This conference looked at construction projects in the region that have delivered environmental, economic and/or social sustainability, providing evidence of policy being put into practice. The projects presented were all shortlisted projects for the Northwest Regional Construction Awards that relate to the Sustainable Buildings Agenda.
Presentations:
Liverpool City Council: Liverpool City Centre Movement Strategy – Public Realm Works (Rosey Paul)
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council: Middleton Arena (John Percival)
Blencowe Hall Partners Part 1, Part 2, Part 3: Cumbria, Blencowe Hall (Christine Rowley)
University Partnerships Programme: Lancaster University, Student Accommodation (Bob Giles)
Taylor Woodrow (part of VINCI UK): Cheetham Hill, Tesco (Andrew Besant-Roberts)
Wilmott Dixon: Longsight, St Agnes Primary School (Andre Witter)
Thomas Barnes and Taylor Young: Carlisle, Police Headquarters (Phil Skyes)
Blackpool Coastal Homes: Decent Homes Refurbishment (Ian Grimshaw and Roberta Austin)
IMPACT: Manchester Decent Homes Refurbishment (Jane Gant)
Rider Levett Bucknall: Four Dimensional Cost Model (Brendan Patchell)
Conlon: Training and Development Strategy (Michael Conlon)
Place Shaping
27th April
Place Shaping and Adaptation is about good design. This is concerned not only with the building in isolation, but also about how it affects the surrounding area, addressing issues such as access and public space. The policy objective is in place to ensure that developments consider their wider environment and how the people who live and work in the area relate to the building on a day-to-day basis.
Presentations:
Emma Kyng: CCI - NWDA Sustainable Buildings Programme
Annie Atkins: Places Matter - How Places Matter can help with Place Shaping
Bradley Hart: Greater Manchester Police - Secure by Design
Paul Nolan: Mersey Forest - Green Infrastructure
Kate Dickson: Heritage Works - Heritage and Place Shaping
Tim Whitehill: BRE - Greenprint and Place Shaping
For The Associated Factsheet Click Here
Waste
30th March
The construction industry, historically, produces high levels of waste during the construction process. On their completion, buildings continue to produce waste through the people who live, work and use these buildings and through the process of what they have been built for. Traditionally, construction waste, household waste and non-specific waste from buildings has been disposed of by transfer to landfill sites for burial. The Policy objective of the North West Regional Development Agency is to reduce the amount of such waste that is sent to landfill. This can be done by either using materials in the construction of developments that have been made from other peoples recycled waste or by reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill by: 1) minimising the use of materials, 2) the reuse, on-site or off site, of materials, 3) recycling waste, or 4)
using waste for energy recovery. Thus leaving disposal as the last option.
Presentations:
Emma Kyng: CCI – NWDA Sustainable Buildings Programme
Matt Waltho: NWDA – Agency position on Waste
Tim Whitehill Part1, Part2: BRE – Smart Waste Plan and CLIP
Mervyn Jones: WRAP - Help and Support Available
James Griffin: Envirolink - Help and Support Available
Paul Bromley: NISP - Help and Support Available
Andy Scully: Envirowise - Help and Support Available
For The Associated Factsheets Click Here
BREEAM and Energy Performance Certificates
10th March 2009
Central to the Northwest Development Agencies Sustainable Buildings Policy is the use of BREEAM to assess the environmental performance of their developments and the energy rating achieved as demonstrated by the Energy Performance Certificates awarded. This event had a number of purposes 1) to explain how the BREEAM areas of assess sit with the other NWDA sustainability key performance indicators 2) explain what BREEAM is and how it can be achieved and 3) what energy performance certificates are and how they can be obtained for new and refurbished buildings.
Presentations
Emma Kyng: CCI – NWDA Sustainable Buildings Programme
Mark Joslyn: NWDA – Agency position on BREEAM and EPCs
Tim Whitehill: BRE – BREEAM
Matthew Cotton: Faber Maunsell – EPCs
For The Associated Factsheets Click Here
Launch Event: Is the Northwest ready for Sustainable Development?
5th February 2009
The Northwest Development Agency is running a programme to raise awareness about, and transfer the knowledge required for effectively implementing, its Sustainable Buildings Policy
http://www.nwda.co.uk/sustainablebuildings. As part of this programme, CCI ran a launch event attended by participants from the construction industry.
Presentations
Richard Meadows: BERR – National Strategy for Sustainable Construction
Mark Atherton: NWDA – Regional Sustainable Buildings Policy
Ian Cooper: Eclipse – Is the Northwest ready for Sustainable Development
Tim Whitehill: BRE – Tools, techniques and support available
Emma Kyng: CCI – NWDA Sustainable Buildings Programme