Title: Future Footprints; Building Products in a Resource Efficient World
Date: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Location: Bristol, Create Centre with the Green Register
Time: 1.30pm – 5pm
Cost: £59 for TGR/ASBP members, £85 for non-members
ASBP has been invited to co-host with the Green Register on our popular series; Future Footprints; Building Products in a resource efficient world at the CREATE centre. Exhibitors include Warmcel, Wienerberger, Steico. Keynotes: Craig White and Craig Jones, Sustain.
Programme
13.30 Registration and Exhibition - Exhibitors include Wienerberger, Warmcel, Ecological Building Systems + others tbc
14.00 Welcome - Lucy Pedler, The Green Register
14.05 Setting the Scene - Gary Newman, ASBP
14.20 Key Note Address: The Sixth Carbon Sink - Craig White, architect, White Design
• Could we consider the built environment a place to store carbon at scale?
• The debate around sequestered carbon is controversial - do we have enough data on Life Cycle Analysis to decide?
• What is the potential and what is the reality compared to other forms of carbon capture and storage?
14.45 Embodied impact: Measuring, benchmarking and target setting - Craig Jones, Sustain
• The ICE database: the benefits, limitations and future development
• Measuring and reducing embodied energy at Bicester Eco-town
• Developing a water footprint database for materials and industrial products
15.10 Refreshments
15.40 Sector Presentations - Future materials resource efficiency outlook
15.40 Concrete and minerals - Guy Thompson, The Concrete Centre/ Mineral Products Association
• Local
• Long life
• Low carbon
• Responsibly Sourced
15.55 Timber and bio-renewable products - David Hopkins, Head of External Affairs Timber Trade Federation & Wood for Good
• The success of Wood First in Hackney
• Wood First Plus providing resources in 3 key areas; carbon, LCA and Engineering
16.10 Steel - John Dowling, Sustainability Manager, The British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd
• Available reserves of material for steel manufacture.
• Reuse of steel - barriers and opportunities
• Social and ethical pressures in the steel supply chain
• Best practice for maximising the value of resources
• The impact of BIM on sustainable construction
16.25 Earth, fire and water – clay masonry - as sustainable now as it always has been - John Sandford, Director for Sustainability, Wienerberger Ltd • Clay bricks and blocks – a traditional, sustainable and contemporary solution • Results of the first 10 years of the Brick Development Association Sustainability Strategy • The developing Resource Efficiency Action Plan showing opportunities for re use and recycling of clay masonry • Innovative solutions to improve the eco efficiency of clay masonry
16.30 The Debate - Panel discussion and audience comments Chair – Graham Hilton, ASBP
17.30 Summary – Gary Newman, ASBP followed by drinks, nibbles and networking
This is event is kindly supported by BCSA and Wood for Good
Bookings: Book online on the Green Triangle website or contact them on 0117 377 3490 or email Green Triangle
