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Events and Seminars

Retrofitting: Challenges and Opportunities

Date: Mon 24th January 2011
Time: 12.00 - 14.00
Venue: K505, Buchanan House, 58 Port Dundas Road, Glasgow, G4 0HG

The Centre for the Built Environment (CBE) would like to highlight an event which will take place on Monday 24 January 2011 entitled “Retrofitting: Challenges and Opportunities”. The event will begin at 12noon with lunch and an opportunity to network before presentations begin at 12.30pm, questions and answers at 1.30pm and a 2pm finish (prompt). The location is room K505 Buchanan House, which is situated on the 5th floor of Buchanan House, Port Dundas Road, Glasgow Caledonian University. The fee for the above event is £15, which will be invoiced on registration.

There will be three speakers at the event:
‘Back to the future / revitalising property solutions’
Gordon Henderson - School of the Built and Natural Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University.
‘Neighbourhoods - shared advantage in retrofit’
Colin Porteous - Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit, The Glasgow School of Art.
‘Transforming Infrastructure’
Alan Pert - Northern Office for Research and Design (NORD), University of Strathclyde.

To register by email click here or contact Lucinda Facchini on 0141 331 8793.

SME Advice and Consultancy

CBE provides the focus for the development of collaboration in the form of research, advice and consultancy between organisations operating in the built environment/construction industry in Scotland and CBE's associated academic communities. Contact us directly if you are interested in collaborating with academia on research or would like advice from one of our experts.

CBE is a joint initiative supported by Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Strathclyde and The Glasgow School of Art.

CBE was funded by European Regional Development Fund, Scottish Executive Expertise, Knowledge and Innovation Transfer (SEEKIT) Programme.