FM01 - 2010 National Conference - Resilience and Building Services: How to secure the future

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To stand up to the weather, the economy and whatever else life throws at us we need information. Information on where the opportunities are, and which strategies to take advantage of them will work for a range of possible scenarios, and which will be derailed by the actions of individuals or masses.

This conference will equip building services specialists with an insight into scenario planning for commercial resilience. It will provide information on the political, legal, environmental and technical changes which will have significant impacts in the next 2-5 years. There will be sessions on ensuring that your designs are resilient, that you have adequately managed legal, contractual and other risks.

For the technically astute, there will be sessions on energy demand management and balancing, smart grids and IP networks on the use of multiple renewable, on providing real value from commissioning and on the issues of real versus predicted energy use in buildings.

This conference will be of benefits to strategists and practical engineers and will provide all with reliable information which will equip them to identify and take advantages of the opportunities today.

The conference dinner and debate will take place on the 27th April and will be supported by the Young Engineers Network for more information click here.

Programme:

DAY ONE: 27 April 2010

09:50   Chair's opening address Rob Manning, President Elect, CIBSE & Director, AECOM

BUILDING SERVICES: 2010 AND BEYOND

10:00   Scenarios for the future

• The industry is facing: big shakeups in the next decade
• How can we plan and react in order to profit?
• Scenario planning explained, how to better protect your company

Professor David Gann, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School and Group Innovation Executive, Laing O'Rourke Plc

10:30   The Building Services threats

• What are the particular issues which face our profession and how should we deal with them?

Paddy Conaghan, Partner, Hoare Lea

10:50   New building services opportunities

• Making what we have work
• Certification, Legislation implementation, sustainability advising
• Renewables, smart facades
• Operating buildings and demand management

Prof David Fisk, Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College

11:10   Break

11:40   Collaborative design

• The interdependence of architecture and services
• The need for collaboration and its benefits and frustrations

Peter Fisher, Associate, Bennetts Associates Architects

12:00   Case study: Building constructive relationships in construction

• Maintaining collaborative working in the face of the current economic climate
• The benefits and how it is done

Adam Locke, Consultancy Partnership Leader, Laing O'Rourke

12:20 Avoid disappointments: do what it says on the tin

• Understanding your contractual obligations
• Do we have an obligation to advise on climate change?
• Getting paid
• Best-practice to avoid litigation

Terry Dix, Director, Arup

12:40   Effects of the current economy on contracts

• How will the economy affect working relationships?
• How can we manage relationships through effective contracts?

Richard Ward, Head of Construction Group, Eversheds

13:00   Q&A

13:10 Lunch

ENERGY RESILIENCE

14:10   Reacting to macro energy and carbon issues

• Our best response to the energy deficit
• Dealing with macro energy issues: price, the move to electricity, different forms of energy, local generation
• An analysis of the UK's energy insecurity

Simon Harrison, Director, Mott MacDonald Fulcrum

14:30   Balancing energy demands

• Are we being forward thinking enough?
• What is the impact of a switch to electric heating from gas?
• Building in storage
• The implications for the grid and for consumers
• Over design of biomass

Brian Mark, Technical Director, Mott MacDonald Fulcrum

14:50   How to commission smart grids

• Building controls and smart grids - a way to avoid a sudden crash?
• The best way to commission smart grids for success
• How to ensure asynchronous drives are stable

Clive Earp, Director, Earp Consulting

15:10 Case Study: The benefits of proper commissioning of variable flow systems

Stephen Hart, Sales Director, Frese

15:20   The implications of moving work onto IP networks

• How would IP networks affect building designers, owners and operators?
• What is available to building services engineers and what is proven to work?

David Frise, Founding Chairman, M & E Sustainability

15:40   Q&A

15:45   Break

DESIGN RESILIENCE

16:15   Case study: How sustainability brings value to an existing portfolio

• How to set a clear sustainability strategy
• Why sustainability survived the recession and goes from strength to strength
• Case studies
• Demonstrating the link between community, environment and financial performance
• What the future holds and what is needed to drive change

Paul Edwards, Head of Sustainability, Hammerson Plc

16:35 Facility management: Buildings that work

• Running a better building
• Design resilience and the management of buildings in practice

Barry Walker, Arup

16:55   Case study: Improving the performance of an existing building

Stuart Bowman, Head of Energy and Sustainability, Hurley Palmer Flatt

17:15   Chairman's summary and close of day one

DAY TWO: 28 April 2010

09:10   Chair's welcome address: Mike Simpson, President of CIBSE & Technical and Design Director of Philips Lighting UK

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FROM FORTHCOMING LEGISLATION

09:20   Why waiting for legislation is not good enough

• Can we risk being ahead of legislation?
• Can we actually organise to be so and why should we?

Keith Clarke, Chief Executive, Atkins and Chairman of the Construction Industry Council

09:40   Today's legislation driving tomorrow's Building Services industry

• Government Strategy Policy Drivers for Carbon Minimisation
• DECC activities/CRC
• Zero-carbon non-domestic buildings
• EPBD
• Part L
• How current and forthcoming legislation will interact and predictions for the future

Ant Wilson, Business Unit Director, Building Engineering, AECOM

10:00  Practical feedback on legislation for building energy certification and the Carbon Reduction Commitment

• Response from the commercial and property sectors
• Market take-up
• Does building certification work?
• How is the CRC Scheme affecting business attitudes and planning?

John Field, Director, Power Efficiency Ltd

10:20   Design implications of the new emission regulation methodology

• What are we trying to achieve with the regulations and how does this influence the methodology?
• Should the methodology be simple or complex?
• Comparisons with other countries' methodologies
• How are they changing designs at the moment and how will the new methodology influence design?
• Implications on EPCs

David Kingstone, Associate, Buro Happold Ltd

10:40   Is SBEM the way forward?

• Developments in compliance tool options for the non-domestic sector
• Pros and Cons of simple versus complex calculation approaches in use
• Industry use patterns and what do they need?

Rokia Raslan, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL

11:00   Q & A

11:10   Break

THE BUSINESS OF CARBON

11.40  Managing expectation for energy and carbon performance

• Why do so many new buildings perform far worse than the modellers predict?
• Are we making good decisions?
• Managing the risks
• Policy implications,improving procurement,lifting the zerocarbon smokescreen

Bill Bordass, Research and Policy Adviser, Usable Buildings Trust

12:00   Risk management masterclass - A look at some of the challenges associated with the delivery of low energy buildings

• Energy modelling
• The construction industry
• The handover process

Rob Manning, President Elect, CIBSE & Director, AECOM

12:20   Beyond commissioning: The art of improving building performance

• Do our current practices and protocols enable us to get the best performance out of our designs?
• Can we improve ourappointment routesto help us get better building performance?
• Do our projects meet the client's brief?

Laurence Aston, Director of Mechanical Engineering, Morgan Professional Services Ltd

12:40   Carbon Management: take off your engineering anorak

• Is there a need for complication? Do we actually engineer in the complexity?
• Understanding carbon and energy management with a simple view from an end users perspective. What is really important?
• Putting together the pieces of the compliance jigsaw

Richard Hipkiss, Director, i-Prophets Energy Services

13:00   Q&A

13:15 Lunch

14:15 Final votes collected for One Big Idea

TECHNOLOGY RESILIENCE

14:15 Chairman and session introduction: Paul Wenden, Engineering and Marketing Director, Fläkt Woods

14:25   LSBU Report on the energy components of the London Plan

• Drawing conclusions about what works in practice

Professor Tony Day, London South Bank University

14:55  Panel: Renewables and how they can work in partnership

• Our speakers introduce their renewable technologies and champion them

Chair: Prof. David Strong, CEO, Inbuilt and Chairman of the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes

• Yan Evans, Technical Director, Baxi Commercial Divisionon Air source heat pumps (and Part L calcs)

• Dr Robin Cotton, Marketing & Communications Director, Wood Energy Ltd on Biomass Heating Systems

• Christian Engelke, Director of Product Management, Viessmannon Solar thermal

• Simon Woodward, CEO, Utilicomon CHP

15:45   Questions from the floor on which renewables work well together, what are the issues with particular technologies, why aren't they used more etc

16:30   One Big Idea revealed

16:45   Chair's closing remarks

17:00 Close of conferene

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