Webinars

Bill Butcher has a lifetime of practical building experience including over 30 years of thinking about buildable detailing for highly energy efficient homes. In this webinar he will be exploring some key details he has worked on in deep retrofits and inviting feedback and discussion. We should never stop learning, so Bill is always keen […]

This webinar will describe the development of timber frame construction in the UK from historical traditional oak framing, the move to softwood stud panel framing through to super insulation standards using enhanced engineered systems and MMC. The focus will be on the use of sustainable building materials for creating high performance and healthy buildings with […]

This webinar will be an exploration of whether the energy and carbon savings made through retrofitting homes compensates for the embodied energy and carbon expended in the new materials used, based on Lois’ recently completed PhD thesis. Life cycle analysis (LCA) has become a well-known phrase and the approach is increasingly used for decision making […]

Relatively few UK dwellings are currently benchmarked pre-retrofit. This means assumptions are made by specifiers regarding how the building currently performs, which may – or may not – reflect the actual performance of the building. This may result in unintended consequences and client disappointment. Diane Hubbard will examine some of the assumptions made about existing […]

We are taught that retrofit is about risk management, avoiding unintended consequences and the performance gap. So what building performance evaluation techniques are available to us and how do they help us understand our retrofits? We’ll be taking a high-level look at everything from a PAS 2035 basic evaluation through to research grade co-heating measurements, […]