24th June 2013, Heriot Watt University
Post Graduate Centre, Room 201. Directions
In order to prepare for a changing climate buildings must be designed to reduce their environmental impact while also being prepared for more variable conditions. The morning workshop focuses on best practice for integrating mitigation and adaptation considerations into design while the afternoon explores Post Construction Testing in more depth.
- Morning Workshop Agenda: Climate Ready Design, Sue Roaf, Kevin Bowe and Joseph Giacopazzi
- Afternoon Workshop Agenda: Resilient Construction – Post Construction Testing, Grant Rooney
- Speaker Biographies
- Register
9.00am – 12.30pm: Climate Ready Design, Sue Roaf, Kevin Bowe and Joseph Giacopazzi
9.00am Registration and Networking
9.30am Climate Ready Design Principals for Mitigation and Adaptation: Sue Roaf
- Passive design for energy demand reduction
- Energy system efficiency for demand reduction
- Renewable energy supplies in domestic systems: costs and benefits
- Lifestyles and behaviours and controls
- Adaptive Design – future-proofing construction
Energy storage: Kevin Bowe
- Ways of integrating thermal storage in designs
- Correct detailing of thermal storage
- Modelling thermal storage using IES
- Lifestyle implications of optimising mass in homes
11.00am Tea and Coffee
11.15am Ecohouse Design Case Study in Milnathort: Joseph Giagopazzi
- Design rationale
- Construction history
- Systems in Use
- The impact of mass
- Post Construction Testing
- Design Lessons
12.30pm Break for Lunch (Not provided)
13.00pm – 4.30pm: Resilient Construction – Post Construction Testing, Grant Rooney
1.00pm Registration and Networking
1.30pm Robust Envelope details: The Theory
- Infiltration
- Cold bridging
- Condensation
3.00pm Tea and Coffee
3.15pm Post construction testing
- Blower door testing
- Thermal Imaging techniques
- Wall U-value in-situ testing
- Tracer gas testing
- Integrating post-construction testing into the design and build process
4.30pm End
About Sue Roaf
Susan Roaf is Professor of Architectural Engineering at Heriot Watt University and works on a range of Low Carbon Building and Climate Adaptation projects. She is best known for her pioneering Oxford Ecohouse, with the first photovoltaic roof in Britain. The house was designed for future climates and she will be sharing the wide range of ‘future-proofing features incorporated into it. A key political aim is not to build ‘resilience’ into communities, a term generally taken to mean that people can ‘bounce back’ after catastrophic events, including heatwaves, storms, cold snaps and floods. She works with the Initiative for Carbon Accounting; the Adaptation team of the Scottish Centre of Expertise in Climate Change and is on the board of the Resilient Design Institute in New York.
About Joseph Giacopazzi
Joseph Giacopazzi graduated in Law and worked in the financial sector in Edinburgh leaving to set up his own business in 1979. In 2010 he designed and built his own ecohouse in Milnathort, and subsequently set up his own ‘Good House Company’ specialising in low carbon construction. He installed a 6kW peak array on his garage roof and now installs solar systems in homes across Fife. He is an SNP Councillor for Kinross-shire and will share many of the lessons he has learnt from his many and varied experiences with a range of construction materials, methods and technologies.
About Kevin Bowe
Kevin Bowe qualified as a building service engineer in Dublin before moving to Glasgow to join IESVE as a building performance modeller. He is currently register for his PhD at Heriot Watt, looking at the role and function of thermal mass in buildings, ways of providing mass, the development of design tools for optimising the cost benefits of mass in different buildings using simulations that are validated in real buildings. He has already completed comparative studies of the commonly available tools and looked at the impact of mass on the overheating of buildings.
About Grant Rooney
Grant Rooney is an engineer who started Alba Building Sciences Ltd, in Blairgowrie in 1998. Alba is dedicated to improving the environmental performance of buildings using a range of post-construction testing methods and approaches. His talk will cover a range of strategies and techniques Alba employs to identify faults made at the design, construction and operational phases of buildings procurement and use.