Sustainable Design: Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Buildings

15th March 2007, National Botanic Gardens of Wales

Ninety-five people, representing 30 private businesses and 26 public sector or non-for-profit organisations attended the event. This was the first event where we have needed to put people on a waiting list and turn down last minute registrations, reflecting the relevance of the information and contacts we were providing and also the benefits of choosing an attractive venue.

The first presentation, from Trevor Roach, Head of Science and Education at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, set the context for the Garden’s installation of a biomass boiler and their long-term commitment to sustainable development. This was followed by a short tour taking in the biomass boiler, the water treatment system (the cleaned water from which is used on the biomass plantation) and the glasshouse heated by the boiler. Delegates were split into five groups, mixing suppliers with customers, separating people from the same organisation into different groups, and with an EGS team member in each group to act as informal facilitator.
The afternoon series of presentations covered aspects of Low Carbon design and demonstrated the involvement of key players in the installation of a renewable energy system – in this case solar thermal technology in a Gwalia Housing Association project. Speakers came from the company that designed and installed the system (Filsol), the architects (PCKO) and the housing association (Gwalia).

After a brief presentation updating delegates on developments with the Microgeneration Action Plan and Low Carbon Building Programme, the day was finished with four presentations from GEC companies. Two of the presenting companies, Dulas and Filsol, were recently successful as the lead partners tendering to be framework suppliers for the Phase 2 LCBP funding.

Presentations are now available from the meeting. All presentations are copyrighted by their respective owners, and delivered in pdf format at the maximum compression available. Users on dial-up should be aware that some presentations may take several minutes to download.

Trevor Roach - National Botanic Garden of Wales (2.6MB)

Katharine York - EGSi (80kB)

Cindy Harris - Design Council for Wales (4.4 MB)
Haf Roberts - Gwalia (2.2 MB)
John Blower - Filsol (Burry) (324 Kb)
PCKO (3.6 MB)

Enviropower CHP (200 kB)
John Blower - Filsol (1.5 MB)
Mat Hutchinson - PBE (1.2 MB)
Ian Draisey - Dulas (373kB)

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