Early Bird deadline ends 10 September.
CIBSE Members receive a discount to attend all CIBSE conferences.
- Date: 21 October 2026
- Early Bird deadline: 10 September 2026
- Location: CIBSE HQ, 91 - 94 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8QP
About:
As climate risks intensify, the built environment must rapidly adapt to ensure resilience, safeguard occupants, and maintain long-term performance. This conference brings together industry leaders, policymakers, and practitioners to explore practical approaches to climate adaptation—focusing on real-world implementation, cross-industry collaboration, policy and market drivers, and the strategies needed to future-proof buildings and infrastructure.
Conference Themes:
Climate-related planning policy, resilience standards, and emerging insurance requirements are placing greater emphasis on overheating mitigation, flood preparedness, and system resilience. Engineers need clear guidance on applying CIBSE TM59, CIBSE TM61–64 and the Climate Action Plan within evolving regulatory and risk frameworks.
Increasing frequency of extreme heat, intense rainfall, and drought conditions is driving demand for robust adaptation strategies. Overheating in homes, flood risk in urban areas, and failures in HVAC and power systems are now urgent challenges across the built environment.
The sector requires upskilling in climate modelling, resilience assessment, digital infrastructure protection, and interdisciplinary collaboration to meet rapidly evolving adaptation demands and ensure future-proofed building services.
Many buildings remain vulnerable to overheating, moisture risk, and service disruption despite design-stage modelling. Improved use of future weather files, climate scenarios, and resilience metrics is essential to close the gap between predicted and real-world performance.
With the majority of 2050’s buildings already operational, adaptation of existing stock—supported by CIBSE TM61–64 and integration with PAS 2035—is critical to safeguard occupants, maintain asset value and reduce operational disruptions.
Supporters
Headline Sponsor
Ramboll
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Qvantum
Qvantum wants to be part of the solution to society’s energy problems. By combining experience from the energy industry and heat pump manufacturing, we create innovative products delivering fossil-free heating for urban homes.
Behind every Qvantum heat pump is a team of experts who have created a product that not only heats your home but also helps to balance the entire energy system.
All our heat pumps are Flexready ® with a patented thermal battery to manage demand on the grid. Our modular construction methods make them easy to install and commission, and we design all our products with connectivity built in, for over the air updates and remote servicing.
We aim to empower millions of homes to be part of the energy transition by offering a range of innovative products, including exhaust air, ambient loop and air source heat pump systems.
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BRE Academy
BRE Academy is the learning and development division of BRE, delivering industry-leading training that helps professionals, organisations and future talent build the knowledge and skills needed to create a safer, more sustainable built environment.
Drawing on BRE's world-renowned research, science and technical expertise, our courses are developed and delivered by industry specialists, ensuring learners gain practical, up-to-date knowledge aligned with current standards, regulations and best practice.
Our portfolio spans sustainability, BREEAM, digital construction and BIM, fire safety, building performance, retrofit, net zero and building safety, supporting individuals at every stage of their career. Through flexible online, virtual and classroom learning, we enable organisations, universities, and professionals to develop capability, demonstrate competence and meet evolving industry demands.
By connecting research with real-world application, BRE Academy empowers learners with the confidence, skills and recognised training needed to make a positive impact across the built environment and support the future of the construction industry.
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Institute of Refrigeration (IOR)
The Institute of Refrigeration (IOR) is an independent registered charity run for the public benefit with a membership reflecting the diversity of the refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump sector (RACHP).
Our sector is essential to the safe, reliable and efficient provision essential services in food production, distribution, storage and retail, industrial cooling processes in manufacturing, climate control in spaces, such as datacentres, IT rooms, offices, shops, leisure facilities and hospitality, as well as pharmaceutical and healthcare facilities, amongst others.