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GBE Lectures Subjects

GBE Lectures Subjects
Index: Courses & Subjects

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ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE STUDENTS

(Kingston Uni)

• Barriers to Sustainability
• Success Stories in Sustainability

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Degree ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGISTS

(Sheffield Hallam Uni)

• GreenSpec Website and its use in practice
• GreenSpec specifications in use with NBS Building software
• Review students project: Building study of a material and its specification, technical review.

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MSc THEORY & PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

(Cardiff Uni)

• Barriers to the implementation of sustainable development initiatives
• Financial incentives – grants and other financial support
• Employers requirements:
  • Takes Brief and turns it into D&B Performance specification
  • E.g. zero waste construction
• Community Consultation & Participation
• Sustainable site practice
  • Waste minimization
  • Waste Reduction by Design
  • Waste Site Issues, On-site waste segregation
  • Waste Best practice Tools
  • Violet materials, Waste Definitions
  • Waste Cost Savings & SMARTWaste
  • Health and Safety
  • Employment
  • Cost benefits of sustainable site practice

• Sustainable Specification

• Procurement Methods and Diagrams
• Specification Responsibility
• Design to reduce Waste (2007/08)

• The Good the Bad and the Ugly
• Local Agenda 21
• Sustainable Communities & Sustainable Development

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Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE)

(University of Cambridge)

A part-time Masters Degree

20__

• An introduction to GreenSpec

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IDBE Conservation, Retrofit & Adaptation

23-29th March 2014

Construction Materials Workshop

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ARCHITECTURE: PART 1 YEAR 2

(London South Bank Uni)

Air Movement in Building

• Air movement in and around buildings: everything from tornadoes to air conditioning
• (now 4 hours in 29 parts) Presented to Students and as CPD to practices
• Sun and Daylight in and around buildings (being created now)

• A90 Principles of Element Design
• Climate Change
• Wind & Wind Tunnel Testing
• Wind Turbines
• Natural Ventilation
• Moisture Vapour & Condensation
• P10 Thermal Insulation
• Breathing Construction
• P14 Wind & Air tightness
• A94 Wind & Air tightness Testing
• Building Elements
• Passive & Active Ventilation
• Stack Effect
• Atrium
• Solar Orientation, Solar Gain & B12 Conservatories
• Thermal mass
• Conduction, Convection, Radiation
• L15 Solar Shading
• Thermal mass, Passive and active cooling
• Fluid dynamics
• Mechanical Ventilation
• Air-Conditioning
• Questions and Answers

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RIBA Part 1 Technology & Environment 2

Delivered to Full time year 2 and Part time year 3

• Speed dating, getting to know the students and starting CVs
• Setting agenda for 12 weeks
• Global Imperative
• A90 Principles of Element Design
• Path to the Future
• Sustainability Definitions

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12 lecture/workshop series:
Materials, Construction & Services:
Domestic and small buildings:

Building Elements

• (11) Ground: Site Survey, Soil Investigation, Site Clearance, Topsoil, Subsoil, Soil Stabilisation, Consolidation, Soil Remediation
• F132 Basements
• (13.1) Ground floor, Insulation, Inter-seasonal Thermal storage, DPM, GPM, below ground services.
• (16.4) Groundworks & Reinforced Concrete Raft Foundations (site vist)
• (16.4) Foundation types, Eco-concrete, Rock piling, Buried buildings, Floating buildings,
• (21) External Walls: Timber, LTF Light timber frame,
• (21) External Walls: Masonry
• (21) External Walls: others
• (21.4) External Walls: Glass
• JH11 Curtain Walling
• JH13 Structural Glass Assemblies
• (22) Internal partitions
• (23) Upper floors
• (27.1) Flat roofs
• (27.2) Pitched Roofs
• Green Roofs
• B571 Environmental Impact Assessment

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Homework: create and present PowerPoint files:

• 7 Bullet Point CV
• Introduction to a website with an environmental flavour
• Jargon Busting 1 present a word or phrase with explanation
• An aesthetic material: properties and characteristics to use in studio work
• Sketching the material in an assembly sequence to make a room or building
• Jargon Busting 2 Energy
• Waste: apply a known material to a studio project and see how much waste is generated, can any be reused?
• Biodiversity: see how nature can be included in your current studio project
• Thumbnail sketches: of the building sequence of your studio project
• Students educate Students: homework presentations, review and score/moderation

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ARCHITECTURE: PART 2 YEAR 1

Short Lecture series with Mike Kane

2012 & 2013 & 2014

Global Imperative

Consequences

Urban Heal Island Effect

• JuFu Julie Futcher

Resource Efficiency

• Resource Efficient Design: Handout 9 slides/page B&W Text only
• Design to Reduce waste

Energy Conservation, Insulation Passive Design: Solar & Ventilation

• Air Movement in Building series extracts
• Zero Carbon Developments Passive Design

Embodied & In use Energy & Carbon

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GBE Calculators

Developed to enable the students to calculate their own projects

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Training Module: Green Specification

• New build and refurbishment
• Product Selection
• Process: Initial design through to waste and recycling
• Source of environmental requirements:
• Requirements must be explicitly included in specification or they will not be tendered for and not get built
• Any work:
• Client’s Brief (GC) or Employer’s Requirements (D&B)
• T&C Planning national, regional and local requirements
• Building Regulations (when they catch up with CfSH, etc,) Approved Documents and Tertiary Documents
• EU Procurement Rules WTO Procurement Rules
• Any other legislation:
•     SWMP,
• New Build
• Environmental Assessment Methods
• EcoHomes or Code for Sustainable Homes
• BREEAM (non-domestic) building type specific and Bespoke
• Others: DREAM, LEED, NEAT, CEEQUAL,
• Refurbishment:
• EcoHomes XB
• Decent Homes Programme
• Specification Library
• NBS & Greening of NBS and Greening of NES reports
• NGS Green Building Specification
• Advisory Organisations
•       CIRIA: (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems)
•       EST: (Details) CLP: (future)
•       Building Regulations Accredited Construction Details Part L & Robust details Part E
•       BRE: Environmental Profiling, Green Guide to Specification, relationship to BREEAM, CfSH, EcoHomes, ISO 14025
• Knowledge outside of the mainstream UK construction industry
• AECB & CarbonLite Programme
• Passivhaus Programme (European)
• Green Products labels,
• OPP, EcoFlower, BlueSwan, NaturePlus, CD2E, Passivhaus, etc.
• Normal Issues
• Performance, Durability, Quality (QA), Proper materials, certification, testing, etc.
• Environmental issues (its not just about energy)
• Environmental Management of manufacturers, ISO 14001, EMAS,
• Embodied energy in manufacture, energy efficiency in use, embodied energy in waste
• Insulation, airtightness, cold bridge elimination, thermal mass, thermal lag
• Ventilation without heat loss, heat recovery, renewable energy and renewable readiness
• Avoidance of condensation, Moisture mass, Hygroscopicity,
• Resource Efficiency
• Materials, Water, Fuel: Heating, Cooling and water
• Design to reduce Waste, Fixings, Assembly, Deconstruction, Reclamation, Reuse or Recycling
• Social Issues
• Healthy materials in manufacture, application, occupation, repair, refurbishing, deconstruction and disposal
• Moisture mass, low allergy, non-toxic,
• Natural materials, non-petrochemical, low VOC, PVC-free renewable and rapidly renewable materials
• Recycled content, recyclable, reclaimable, reusable,
• Local procurement
• Legal and sustainable: Stewardship: FSC timber, Stone stewardship and metal stewardship
• Environmental characteristics
• Thermal mass, Decrement, Hygroscopicity, moisture mass, Psi values,
• Materials
• Earth
• Rammed earth, Unfired clay, clay finishes, clay coatings
• Plant based
• Hemp, timber, cellulose, cotton, straw, Linseed,
• Recycled and by-product
• Sheep’s wool, denim (recycled),
• Aggregates, secondary aggregates, recycled aggregates, recycled concrete aggregates
• Plastics, de-sulferisation gypsum, glass, paper/cardboard, green-waste, metals, timber
• Construction Reclaimed
• Bricks, stone, timber, steel, ironmongery
• Architectural salvage
• Stone, timber, stain glass, furniture,
• Carbon reduction, Carbon Sequestration, Low carbon and Carbon negative buildings
• Cement replacement, Lime, GGBS cement, PFA cements; timber construction, Hemp-lime construction
• Specification and substitution
• Robust specification v generic
• Performance v prescriptive
• Declaration of Conformity
• Equivalency and Approval: Architect first time, Contractor evidence second time
• Case Law & Project Feedback