AECB Webinar : Masonry Cavity Wall Construction – Embodied energy and buildability

The AECB presents the first webinar of 2022

Tuesday 15 March 12-1pm

Bill Butcher, Chris Herring & Tim Martel share findings of a comparative PHribbon study looking at the embodied carbon of different building methods for a Passivhaus newbuild project, including masonry cavity wall construction, and discuss in the context of buildability.

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Bill Butcher, Director, Green Building Store

Bill Butcher has been the project leader of many low energy builds including the Denby Dale, Golcar and Kirkburton Passivhaus projects, the Stirley Farm EnerPhit project, and several notable radical retrofits. Originally trained as a quantity surveyor, he has over 45 years’ building experience both hands-on and managing, including construction of the Longwood low-energy house in the early 1990s. He jointly set up the Green Building Store in 1995 and amongst other duties runs the construction and consultancy sections of the business advising on numerous low energy and PH projects. Bill is a Certified Passive House Consultant and a Certified Passive House Tradesperson. A member of the AECB from inception, he also serves on the Technical Panel of the Passivhaus Trust, teaches on the Construction module of the CarbonLite CEPH Designer course and is a tutor on the CarbonLite Retrofit course.

Contact: bill.butcher@greenbuildingstore.co.uk ◦ @billbutch

Chris Herring, Director, Green Building Store

Chris is one of the UK’s leading experts in high performance window design and has been advocating and pioneering sustainable approaches for most of his construction career. Chris was Technical Leader on the Denby Dale Passivhaus project. He worked closely with Bill Butcher to ensure the meshing of theory and practice of Passivhaus standards and technology with UK materials and building techniques.

Over the last 12 years Chris has been one of the leading proponents of the Passivhaus approach to low energy construction and of the adoption of Passivhaus standards and methodology in the UK.  Chris has been the Chair of the Passivhaus Trust since its inception and was previously the Chair of the AECB. Chris was recently appointed as one of the Commissioners on the Kirklees Climate Commission.

Contact: chris.herring@greenbuildingstore.co.uk

Tim Martel

Tim Martel is the writer of the AECB’s PHribbon software, an add-on to PHPP to speed up data entry and extend the capability. It has modules for Daylight Factor, Embodied CO2 and Costing.

Tim specialises in Energy calculations using the Passivhaus Planning Package and has 8 years’ experience including: PHPP calculations for dwellings and commercial buildings; PHribbon software to help enter and extend the capabilities of PHPPs; Embodied CO2 and Operational CO2 calculations; and PAS 2035 Improvement Option Evaluation (for retrofits)

Contact: https://aecb.net/directory-members/listing/optimal-retrofit/