This seminar will be an informed daytime event aimed at practitioners, teachers of technology and interested architects. The day will provide a general overview of new energy sources, what they will be and how they will be generated and distributed. Topics covered will include hydrogen fuel cells, wind power, photovoltaics, bio-renewables, combined heat and power and new technologies for power distribution.
Tickets  £50.00 + VAT from events@buildingcentretrust.org

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This latest inside track discussion on the issues affecting the delivery of ‘green’ offices will enable delegates to listen, respond and learn about the latest thinking and applications in workplace design.

64 per cent of occupiers, surveyed* by property consultants GVA Grimley and the CBI, put energy and water-efficiency top of their agenda when looking at their property requirements over the next five years.

A massive 91 per cent of occupiers are extremely concerned at the possibility of future increases in energy prices. The survey shows that occupiers are prepared to pay more for ‘green’ buildings; but are developers and designers creating the workspaces that will deliver the economical, healthy and friendly environments that the occupiers want?

This debate will bring together speakers from leading companies that are looking at the environmental design of the spaces in which we work to find out what really delivers a ‘green’ building with environmental and economic integrity and social sustainability.

Sessions and speakers include:
‘Green’ Issues - The Occupier’s Perspective, Stuart Morley
Partner and Head of Research, GVA Grimley

The Work/Life Balance, Nigel Oseland, Director of Consultancy
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects

Corporate Social Responsibility, Paul Harrington, Real Estate Director
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chair, BCO Occupier Committee

Sustainable Construction in the ‘Green’ Mix, Paul Appleby
Associate Director, Building Sustainability Unit, URS Corporation Ltd

Business Implications of Going ‘Green’, Paul Burgess
Head of London Leasing, British Land

Chaired by: Matt Yeoman, Partner, Buckley Gray Yeoman, Architects

*New Survey of Property Trends – ‘Green’ Issues published July 2006 by GVA Grimley.

Cost of the debate £75 plus VAT to include:

• Copy of The ‘Green’ Issues survey
• Copy Workplace Productivity Designs, Locations & People*
• Copy The Work/Life Agenda and Offices*
• Viewing The Office – London’s Workplace exhibition at NLA
• Refreshments (registration & tea break)
• ‘Green’ Issues Reception in the NLA Gallery
• CPD Certificates available to delegates on request

*BCO Reports. Published in July and September 2006 respectively.

Marine Current Turbines Ltd was formed to develop technology for exploiting flowing water to provide cost-effective and reliable power systems. In this lecture Angela Robotham, Engineering Director of the company will talk about the design, manufacture, installation and testing of SeaGen, the first commercial-scale monopile-mounted turbine which was successfully installed in 2003. Marine Current Turbines Ltd are currently installing Phase 2 which will be connected to the National Grid and will act as the prototype and test-bed for the commercial technology.

Insitu concrete can be made to look as smooth as porcelain with painstaking effort and care or cast with the rawness of the shutter and the average skills of a local builder. Both forms will impact on the ambience of the space they enclose and the style of architecture they create.       

Speakers: 

William Russell, of William Russell Architects, on 23-25 Bacon Street, London
A small plot measuring 9.8 by 6.3 metres was available, following the redevelopment of an adjacent school, with the opportunity to insert a building fronting on to Bacon Street and backing on to the school playground. The structure is an in-situ concrete frame with a variety of internal and external spaces designed to allow different types of occupancy over time. The raw concrete frame is clad externally in three materials; glass, galvanised steel and black Alwitra Evalon. Internally the concrete is exposed and there is a cast concrete stair. 

Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, of O’ Donnell Tuomey Dublin, on the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork and the concrete vaults for the Cherry Orchard School, Dublin
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery is raised among the trees in an interlocking suite of rooms, with selected views up and down the river. It is supported on a concrete table structure, which is cantilevered from columns in order to preserve the roots of the surrounding trees.
The Cherry Orchard School is arranged between a series of courtyards within a high brick garden wall. The vaulted concrete roofscape, with projecting rainwater gutters, reinforces the distinctive form of the building whilst deterring unauthorised access to the roofs.

Today we can choose to be extrovert colourists or cool purists when it comes to selecting the tonality of concrete. The problem associated with pigmented concrete is that it succumbs to fading and a patchy uneven surface colour, the concern with grey concrete is it blandness and lack of vibrancy. How can we master both of these options?

Speakers:
Jochen Glemsarb of David Chipperfield Architects on Villaverde, Madrid and The City of Justice, Barcelona.
These projects emphasize the effect of using coloured concrete, the different approaches taken and the method of manufacture. The housing project in Villaverde in Madrid and the collection of large buildings under construction for the City of Justice in Barcelona shows how concrete colour was specified for GRC cladding panels and the coloured in situ facades of the Law Courts. 

Nick Lee of Greenway and Lee Architects will describe the architecture of Spedant Works, Park Royal and the contrasting depths of grey tonality achieved with the same concrete mix by the effect of   board marking, by power trowelling the floors, and smooth birch ply for the soffits of the suspended slabs.   

A master of brickwork design, Louis Kahn continues to inspire architects and students alike. This lecture will explore Kahn’s philosophy by looking at some of the finest brick buildings of the 20th century.

The lecture will be given by Professor Richard Weston of the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.

One of finest bridges to be built in the world  has become a landmark for establishing so many records in its achievement - the deck launch system, the curved alignment, the  pioneering cable stay technique are just a few of them.  This lecture will celebrate the challenge of how the tallest piers in the world that rise 300m above the Tarn Gorge and one and a half times the height of the Eiffel Tower, were aesthetically modelled and built.

Speakers
Anne Fehrenbach, Associate and Project Architect at Foster and Partners.
Bernard Steinle, Technical Director, Peri France who built all the piers using semi automatic climbing formwork system.