With less than 100 days until the election, Ecobuild has unveiled its full conference programme with a host of big name industry and Westminster speakers with support from global sustainable construction leaders Skanska and Lend Lease.
Other names on the line-up at the world’s leading sustainable design, construction and energy event are RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect Steve Tompkins of Haworth Tompkins, Sir John Armitt, former Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, and Lord Deben, Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change.
Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity, leading to widespread flooding and damage. Prescott will tackle a lively debate at Ecobuild asking the big question: Is it time for a national environmental resilience plan? The discussion will focus upon climate change mitigation strategies which require a long-term national infrastructure plan backed with sufficient funding. Prescott will ask - what should this look like and can the money be made available?
For fans of the BBC’s Home Front and Changing Rooms series’, you will recognise famous biophilic designer Oliver Heath who is set to cover how incorporating nature creates value and improves wellbeing in buildings. Heath will talk about maximising natural light, providing views out onto nature and incorporating natural objects, materials and textures within buildings.
Housed within two impressive arenas in the heart of the event, sponsored by Skanska and Lend Lease, the conference will include a future gazing first for the event; cross-party political discussion around the future of the sustainable built environment. The full Ecobuild politician line-up will be publicised nearer the event.
Key sessions include:
- Does a ‘no’ vote for European membership mean the end of UK sustainability policy?
- The mainstream zero carbon home – will it ever happen?
- Greening the grid – is low-carbon electricity a vote loser?
- Are smart cities a positive sustainability benefit or an unwelcome invasion of privacy?
- Happiness by design: How the built environment drives feeling and behaviour
- Innovation and new materials: Could they revolutionise sustainable construction?
