Overheating Indoor Air Quality New Homes (Event) G#73

Peterborough United Football Club

A one-day workshop on overheating and indoor air quality in new homes, delivered by a combination of industry and academic experts. It is designed for:

• Providers  – development and asset management directors and managers, design managers, technical managers, directors of housing
• Technical specialists – house builders & contractors, architects, building & services engineers, etc.
• Local housing authorities – stock owning authorities, particularly those with new-build programmes; housing and environmental health departments

This free workshop is delivered jointly by the Homes and Communities Agency and the ARCC Network – to book your place email antonio.irranca@hca.gsi.gov.uk.

The event will cover:

• Overheating – what it is, the causes and the scale of the problem across social housing stock
• The impacts of overheating – particularly on health, including a focus on the relationship between overheating and poor indoor air quality
• Why overheating should be tackled – environmental health, corporate and social responsibilities, legal duties of care
• How overheating can be tackled across an organisation – what the Development, Asset Management and Housing teams can do
• Case study examples – drawn from procurement, contractors, asset management, maintenance and resident management.

Agenda:

• Introduction – why are overheating & indoor air quality important issues? Prof Fionn Stevenson,  Head of School of Architecture, University of Sheffield (event chair)
• The magnitude of the problem – now and in the future. Prof Keith Jones, Head of Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University
• The causes of overheating and poor indoor air quality. Dr Anna Mavrogianni and Clive Shrubsole, UCL
• Why existing design processes are not addressing these issues. Susie Diamond, Zero Carbon Hub and Inkling LLP
• Impacts on residents. Dr Anna Mavrogianni, UCL
• Impacts on landlords. Paul Ciniglio, First Wessex
• Solutions Showcase – evaluating realistic options. Dr Mich Swainson, BRE
• Solutions Masterclasses:
  • Building Design and Environment
  • Building Management and resident action
  • Contracting and Procurement
• The government perspective. Bob Ledsome, DCLG
• Zero Carbon Hub Synthesis Report on Overheating. Nicola O’Connor, Zero Carbon Hub

GBE Jargon Buster

• ARCC
• BRE
• CSR
• DCLG
• DoC
• HCA
• IAQ
• UCL
• ZCH
• ARCC Network
• Asset Management
• Corporate and social responsibilities (CSR)
• Design
• Development
• Duty of Care (DoC)
• Environmental health
• Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)
• Housing
• Impacts of overheating
• Indoor air quality (IAQ)
• Maintenance
• Overheating
• Procurement
• Resident management
• Zero Carbon Hub (ZCH)

GBE Issue Paper:

• Overheating