Speaker Profiles

Fabric First and Refurbishment Excellence: Up-skilling to Deliver the Green Deal and Beyond

DATE: 17 May 2012 TIME: 9.30 - 16.30 Speaker Proﬁles LOCATION: Centre of Refurbishment Excellence Chelson Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 1PT

Peter Bonﬁeld, Chief Executive, BRE. Opening Presentation & Launch of Report

Dr Peter Bonfield joined BRE in 1992 as a Senior Scientific Officer progressing to Director of the Timber Division and then Managing Director of BRE's Construction Division. Peter became Chief Executive of BRE in January 2007. This year, he took up the role of Chief Executive of the BRE Group of companies.

A materials engineer with a PhD in wind energy and the design of turbine blades, Peters focus as BRE's Chief Executive is to drive innovation and improve sustainability across all sectors. Peter has led major initiatives in the areas of new build and existing housing, as well as in commercial and public sector buildings.

Since mid 2006 Peter has been on part-time secondment to the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) where he has helped create the sustainable development strategy for the Olympics and support its delivery.

He is a Visiting Professor at Bath University, having been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building. He has been a Chartered Engineer for over 20 years and fulﬁls a number of additional roles as Director and in an advisory capacity.

Andy Ainsworth, Room4 Consulting Fabric First Skills Gap Research – The Outcomes

Andrew is Associate Director at Room4 Consulting. He is an experienced environment and sustainability professional who has substantial experience in research and project management providing support to central and regional government clients in the UK and abroad on policy development and implementation, data collection and analysis for nationally and regionally strategic projects. In addition to the CoRE skills gap research he has also worked with the Low Zero Carbon Hub in Wales on behaviour change for low carbon buildings.

Ted Miller, Learning Business Partner, E.ON Skills for the low carbon world: the capabilities needed to help customers to insulate, moderate and generate.

Ted joined E.ON UK as a learning and development business partner in 2008. He previously worked in Learning and Development in the Telecoms and Distribution industries. He achieved an Open University LLB Law degree whilst progressing his career through a number of learning roles in large corporate organisations over the last 10 years.

At E.ON, Ted has worked in roles supporting their Energy Services and Retail businesses and now heads up Operational Learning for E.ON UK. He and his team help the operational areas of E.ON develop their people’s capabilites to deliver great customer service. He is passionate about delivering business focussed learning which produces great results.

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Stephen Passmore, Energy Savings Trust Achieving excellence in refurbishment at scale

Stephen trained in manufacturing engineering and then environmental science before joining Powergen, moving to a small environmental charity to deliver community sustainability advice before joining the Energy Saving Trust in 2007.

Stephen has worked for the Energy Saving Trust for four years providing impartial professional advice for house builders, architects and the trades. He has developed and implemented advice projects and worked on numerous detailed advice guides covering subjects as varied as the Code for Sustainable Homes, thermal detailing, energy performance monitoring and low and zero carbon technologies.

Stephen oversees activities within the National Refurbishment Centre collaboration with BRE, having sat on the panel advising the development of TSB’s Building Performance Evaluation programme

Neil May, Natural Building Technology Insulating solid wall buildings: risks, opportunities and the need for a new approach

Neil was an anthropologist and a documentary ﬁlm maker before becoming a building labourer in 1988 for four years. He then established his own award winning ecological and conservation building company.

In 1999 Neil set up Natural Building Technologies selling and developing high performance environmental building envelope systems for the mainstream construction industry in the UK. Neil is now CEO.

Neil is the Founder and Director of the Good Homes Alliance, the UK’s leading organisation of environmental developers and building professionals. He is also a director of the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products and the Passivhaus Trust, member of various Government Advisory groups and an Honorary Senior Researcher of the world-leading Energy Institute at UCL.

Jane Forshaw, Assistant Director for City Service, Stoke-on-Trent How do we optimise the impact of the Green Deal

Jane Forshaw is Assistant Director for City Services at Stoke on Trent City Council, where her remit includes decarbonising Stoke-on-Trent and ﬁnding use from the City’s environmental assets. Jane was Head of Environmental Policy at the Homes and Communities Agency, having joined HCA from CL:AIRE (Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments) where she was Chief Executive. Previously, Jane was Chief Executive of Urban Mines, an environmental charity and commenced her career at Birmingham City Council as an Environmental Health Oﬃcer, following which she worked for Sir Michael Lyons as a Policy Advisor on Sustainability.

Jane is also Fellow of LEAD (international organisation for Leaders in Environment and Development).

Fran Bradshaw, Partner Anne Thorne Architects Fabric First Approach and use of natural materials in retroﬁt at St Luke’s Street, Stoke

'Frances Bradshaw is an architect, and has been a partner at Anne Thorne Architects since 1996. Extensive experience in participatory design and community projects, with a strong focus on green design, form the basis of her work.

Recent ATAP projects include 'Retroﬁt for the Future' houses, newbuild housing for Metropolitan Housing Trust, which have won CABE, RIBA and sustainablity design awards, and the Lordship Park Environment Centre. She has contributed through lectures, articles and seminars to developing and forwarding sustainable design and refurbishment and is a board member of the sustainable building association, the AECB.

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Lynne Sullivan (OBE), Sustainable by Design Knowledge and Skills for a Low Carbon UK.

Lynne Sullivan is a practising Architect and founder of sustainableBYdesign, an architecture and design practice born from the design arm of Inbuilt which she joined as Design Director in 2008. Lynne was previously Sustainability Director for 9 years at Broadway Malyan, and for 10 years Associate Director at ECD Architects, which pioneered an energy- and environment-conscious approach to design. Her practice were finalists in all 2010-2012 BRE Passivhaus housing Competitions, and previously she was winner of the UKs first Zero CO2 housing competition and Architect of one of four finalists in the UKs first Code 6 Carbon Challenge for a zero carbon community at Hanham Hall, Bristol.

Lynne has been a Member of the Governments Building Regulations Advisory Committee since 2002, leading on sustainability and energy eﬃciency, and was a member of the Zero Carbon Hub’s 2009 taskgroup for the UK’s Fabric Energy Eﬃciency Standard for Homes. Lynne also chaired the Expert Panel for the Scottish Government whose report “A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland” was published in 2007. She was awarded an OBE for services to Architecture in 2011, and is a member of the Government’s Green Construction Board.

Pat Bowen, Construction Skills Gearing up for the Green Deal: Insulation & Building Fabric

Patrick Bowen is Future Skills Manager at ConstructionSkills and spent 20 years working in construction starting working life as a plumbing apprentice. After six years at Sussex University, he joined CITB - ConstructionSkills in 1992 as a research manager.

A critical aspect of his current role is the analysis of the impact of the ’transition to a low carbon economy’ and the likely implications for the skill needs of the construction supply chain. The Green Deal has been a particular focus over the past year and he was a member of one of the four DECC Green Deal Fora. He has been a member of a number of Government ’expert’ missions in relation to construction innovation and training.