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BSRIA Briefing 2010 - Engineering Low Carbon Communities

What is the BSRIA Briefing?
The BSRIA Briefing is a long established event in the construction calendar where delegates can network, become more informed and entertain. At the Briefing we bring together high profile speakers from our industry to discuss and debate a key topic. The Briefing is followed by lunch and a guest speaker.

The Briefing 2010- Engineering low Carbon Communities

Achieving carbon reduction targets in the UK will require work at a community scale, and not just on individual buildings. Just some of the questions needed to be addressed are:  

• How does role of the building services engineer fit in this?
• How can the construction teams deliver a whole community solution?
• Where can you get a market edge from being involved in community based solutions now? 

All of these questions and more will be answered at the BSRIA Briefing. Where we will look at engineering innovations in the UK and elsewhere. Innovations that are practical, carbon friendly, profitable and exciting and can be provided on a community scale. They do however pose very strategic challenges in order to be realised.

The Speakers 
Liz Peace CBE - Chief Executive, British Property Federation, Chair
Liz became the CEO of the British Property Federation in 2002, following a long and varied career in the MoD. In the 1990s she became a key player in the team that set up the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and led the first stage of the privatisation process.Since her appointment at the BPF she has managed to change the Government's perception of the commercial property industry.
 

Paul Morrell OBE - Chief Construction Advisor
Paul Morrell is the Government Chief Construction Adviser. Previously he worked at Davis Langdon, where he became a  Senior Partner in 1999. He is a Fellow of the RICS, an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and a founder member of the British Council for Offices, serving as President in 2004/5.

Peter Sharratt - Director of Sustainability & Climate Change - WSP
Peter has global responsibility for WSP's energy and carbon advisory group which specialises in the emerging markets of renewable energy technologies; He is an internationally recognised leader and has delivered projects of global significance across governmental, public and private sectors.

Mahmoud Abu-Ebid - Chief Consultant/CHP & Heat Knowledge
Leader AEA Group - UK Heat Map
Mahmoud is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with practical experience of energy use in industry and buildings, including CHP technologies, applications and Government Policies.  He led the AEA team that assisted DECC in improving the evidence base underpinning the design of the Renewable Heat Incentive. He had overall responsibility for the new UK Heat Map, that was launched in March 2010.


Ian Guest - Buro Happold - The Olympic Legacy
Ian is an experienced building services engineer and has worked on numerous projects during his career. He is experienced in the field of data centres, stadia and leisure facilities. Most recently Ian has been leading the Olympic Utility & Energy Infrastructure Project.  As well as working on the Olympic Park Design and Site-Wide Infrastructure he has been actively involved in the Ascot Racecourse redevelopment and Millennium Dome.



Gambi Chang - Senior Manager, Special projects - BSRIA - UK Energy Supply Contracting Market
Gambi is a Chinese and English bilingual. Her core expertise includes building controls, security, and other extra low voltage systems markets, energy services, facilities management, and service contracting.

BSRIA Lunch
The BSRIA Lunch is an ideal opportunity to entertain your clients and colleagues in the unique surroundings of The Brewery in the heart of the City of London. During the lunch you will have the opportunity to network with your guests or make new contacts with other guests on your table before being entertained by our guest speaker.

This year our speaker is Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn made his name as Kryten the android in Red Dwarf, and as presenter of Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge. The engineering-based show features two teams competing to build a working machine from spare parts salvaged from a scrapyard.

Draft Agenda

09.00 Coffee and Registration

09.30 Briefing commences

10.15 Coffee break

10.45 Briefing re-starts

12.15 Briefing ends

13.00 Lunch - Guest speaker Robert Llewellyn

15.00 Event closes.