| Date & Time: | Tuesday 13th July to Thursday 15th July 2021 |
The Annual Conference was due to take place at the London School of Economics in June 2020. This was postponed due to the health pandemic. Given that there inevitably remains some uncertainty about physical events we will hold the conference digitally. Plans to host a physical visit to the LSE Centre Buildings on day three cannot take place due to last month’s Government advice and will not now include a digital presentation on the Centre Building at LSE.
The programme, is planned as follows, though inevitably it is subject to change:
Note that with changing circumstances, some last-minute changes may occur
Day 1: Global and University context
Chair: Ian Goodfellow, Deputy Chair of HEDQF and Partner at Penoyre & Prasad
16.00 – 16.05 Welcome and Introduction; Sean Woulfe, Director of Estates at Kingston University
16.05 – 16.20 HEDQF Research Update and Future Plans – Alex Grigull, Associate at Grimshaw and Interim Co-chair of the HEDQF Research Group, and Rupert Cook, Partner at Miltiadou Cook Mitzman architects and Co-chair of the HEDQF Research Group
16.20 – 16.40 Keith Clarke, Chair of the Active Building Centre and Constructionarium
– The global context and the imperative of Zero Carbon.
16.40 – 17.00 Chris Brink, Vice Chancellor Emeritus, University of Newcastle.
– What is the purpose of a university?
17.00 – 17.15 Discussion
17.15 – 17.35 Pooran Desai, CEO, OnePlanet.com
– One Planet Living
17.35 – 17.55 Ellie Cosgrove, Associate Professor in Urban Innovation, UCL
– The Just Sustainable University.
17.55 – 18.15 Tracy Meller, Partner RSHP
– Designing the city, buildings and public space
18.15 – 18.30 Q&A with speakers
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Day 2: Towards Net Zero: Opportunities and Challenges for Universities
16.00 – 16.05 Ian Goodfellow
– Welcome and introduction to Professor Andy Ford as Chair for the day
16.05 – 16.30 Professor Andy Ford, London South Bank University
– Chair’s Introduction, with an engineering and university perspective
16.30 – 16.50 Maria Smith, Director of Sustainability and Physics at Buro Happold
– Beyond Zero Carbon. How can we go further?
16.50 – 17.10 Dr Chris De Beer, Head of the Hydrogen Group, Mott MacDonald
– The Hydrogen economy
17.10 – 17.30 Sunad Prasad, Principal of Penoyre & Prasad
– How industry is gearing up, embodied energy and building renewal/replacement
17.30 – 18.00 Speaker Questions and discussion, at which we may also be joined by Prem Mahi, Strategy, Innovation and Development Director at Mott MacDonald’s energy sector
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Day 3: Designing for Zero Carbon: A university perspective
Chair’s introduction: Julian Robinson, Director of Estates at LSE
The HEDQF Student Prize 2020 at the University of Sheffield
16.00-16.05 – Introduction to the Student Prize – Andy MacFee, Principal, AMA Andy MacFee Architects
16.05 – 16.35 The HEDQF Student Prize 2020 at the University of Sheffield
– Student Prize presentations from Kelubia Onaro, Charlie Perriam, Kristie-Lee McAreavey and Kanai Shah
16.35 – 16.45 Q&A
16.45 – 17.30 LSE’s new building in the heart of the City: The Centre Building – a sustainable building reflects the importance of public space, landscaping and sense of identity
– Julian Robinson, Director of Estates at the London School of Economics and Political Science
– Lorna Edwards – Senior Associate, RSHP
– Frank Connolly, Operations Director, MACE
Chair: Ian Caldwell, former Director of Estates and Facilities at King’s College London and Chair of the HEDQF Events Group.
17.30 – 17.45 Question and Answers
17.45 – 18.00 Closing Discussion
