How low can you go in Low Carbon Housing?

Date: Tuesday, 2nd December 2008
Time: 11.45-13.30 hrs
Venue: Buchanan House, seminar room K505, 58 Port Dundas Road, Glasgow G4 0HG

Programme
11.45 Registration and buffet lunch
12.15 Welcome
1.15 Presentation
13.30 Close

Abstract

Reaching Zero Carbon Housing standards by 2016 poses a huge challenge for the Scottish House building Industry.  There are a wide range of policy drivers pushing for better buildings influenced by the need for social resilience in the face of climate change, fuel poverty, Building Regulations, climate change, sustainable development, energy security and generation. Because buildings generate around 50% of all greenhouse gasses in the UK and are where people spend 98% of their time they are at the heart of the need for change, particularly at a time of rapidly fluctuating energy prices. The Scottish Government, and its communities, need for many reasons to meet these targets and at the moment really do not know how to do this. 

This talk will cover the range of drivers in play and throw out a few ideas of how the zero carbon target might be met and why it probably won’t. The talk will also present the Riccarton Ecovillage project being developed at Heriot Watt with a range of Scottish Universities to try an establish the much needed research base on which we could build credible housing solutions for a low carbon future.

Speaker: Prof. Susan Roaf , Heriot Watt University

Sue Roaf is Professor of Architectural Engineering at Heriot Watt University and Visiting Professor at the Open University. She has worked widely on ecohouse design, carbon accounting, adapting buildings and cities for climate change traditional technologies and sustainable and low carbon buildings,. She designed and owns the Oxford Ecohouse, the first building in the UK with a photovoltaic roof and does much to promote resilient low impact and low carbon architecture through the research, teaching, publishing and the conferences she organises on Solar Cities, Carbon Counting, Architectural Education, Thermal Comfort and Post Occupancy Evaluation.  She is currently co-chairing the Westminster and Scottish Carbon Accounting Groups with Colin Challen MP and Sarah Boyak MSP and is currently Chair of the Heriot Watt Committee on developing a carbon neutral research village outside Edinburgh.
Recent Books:
Roaf, S., D. Crichton and F. Nicol (2008). Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change, 2nd Edition, Architectural Press, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Oxford (in press).

Roaf, S., M.Fuentes and S. Thomas (2007). Ecohouse: Design Guide, 3rd Edition, Architectural Press, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Oxford.

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