CIBSE Scotland’s annual conference will address the challenges associated with retrofitting our existing building stock and the opportunities this presents for building services and built environment professionals to move the retrofit challenge forward at pace and scale.
Conference agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker(s) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration and refreshments | |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Opening address | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Keynote speaker | Patrick Harvie MSP, Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants' Rights |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | The LETI Non-Domestic Retrofit Modelling Group | Lindsay Adams (Senior Engineer, Arup) and Harry Sharples (Principal Building Performance Engineer, AECOM) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | The challenges of setting a pathway to decarbonise an existing campus of buildings | Sarah Peterson (Director, X-Buro and ACE Scotland Chair) |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Route to Net Zero by 2040 via Refurbishment and Low Carbon Design | Karen Pickering (Estate Development Manager, University of Edinburgh) |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Heat network retrofit and how to move economically at pace | David O’Donnell (Associate Director, Heat Decarbonisation, Ricardo) and Jess Grant (Principal Engineer, WSP) |
| 12:40 - 13:40 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 - 14:05 | Presentation of Bronze CIBSE Medal to the late Jeremy Cockroft’s family and the presentation of the Jeremy Cockcroft Award to the Student Poster winner | |
| 14:05 - 14:35 | Retrofit in Heritage Buildings | Laura Baron (Head of Sustainability, Purcell) |
| 14:35 - 15:05 | Heat Pumps in Retrofit projects | Andrew McQuatt (Max Fordham Heat Pumps in Retrofit projects) |
| 15:05 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | BE-ST's National Retrofit Centre of Excellence | Caitriona Jordan (Head of Retrofit Programmes, Built Environment-Smarter Transformation) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Breakout Sessions | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Breakout sessions feedback and Q&A | |
| 17:00 | Drinks reception |
Patrick Harvie MSP announced as keynote speaker
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CIBSE Scotland annual conference sponsors 2024
CIBSE Scotland Retrofit2Perform 2024 sponsors
CIAT
With over 80 years of experience, CIAT is one of Europe’s leading brands in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and air handling solutions for commercial sectors such as healthcare, offices, hospitality and retail.
A major player in air treatment, CIAT invents cleaner, more economical and safer solutions. More than just a wide range of equipment, CIAT offers customers expert support for sustainable solutions to guarantee comfort, air quality and energy optimisation.
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ABB
ABB’s Electrification Business Area is a global leader in electrical products and solutions, operating in more than 100 countries, with over 200 manufacturing sites. Our 50,000+ employees are dedicated to transforming how people live, connect and work by delivering safe, smart and sustainable electrification solutions. We are shaping the future trends of electrification, differentiating through technological and digital innovation while delivering an outstanding experience through operational excellence for our customers across utilities, industry, buildings, infrastructure and mobility. For more information visit https://go.abb/electrification.
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IES
Over the last 28 years IES has built a solid reputation as the leading global innovator in integrated performance-based analysis for the built environment. Through their unique software capability and expert consultancy, IES help to support energy and resource efficient, healthy and cost-effective built environments across their lifecycle.
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HASL/SWEP
SWEP & HASL present all you need to know regards application, selection, design and the importance of transfer medium in achieving the optimal performance of brazed plate heat exchangers.
SWEP have updated their water guidance and we plan to update on plate application and monitoring at this event as intimated below.
This will update you on the SWEP organisation, our role as Northern UK dealer and our ever-expanding stock range plus new products including;
- Risycor Electronic Coupon Method (ECM) and how it enhances water quality
- Next Generation Heat Pump Condenser
- Hypertwain Intergrated Suction Gas Heat Exchanger
- 2 Stage Improved Network Efficiency - Centrally Generated Hot Water
- Double Wall and Data Centre Cooling Applications
- Sealix protection against limescale when required.
- Plus our Software Selection Program DTherm X and X Reference enabling replacement of an old SWEP BPHE.
P4
P4 have been market leaders in designing and manufacturing self-testing emergency lighting, exit signs, and converting mains luminaires to self-testing emergency lighting for over 30 years.
Our team of fully qualified service engineers provide maintenance and service support. All our products comply with BSEN 60598-2-22 and BSEN 62034.
At the heart of P4’s commitment to excellence is the desire to ensure the safety of anyone facing hazardous situations and needing the benefit of the very best emergency lighting.
Tricel
Tricel is a UK GRP Water Storage Tank Manufacturer with a proven track record in the supply of water tanks to all industry sectors throughout the UK
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Hays
Hays are a world-wide specialist in recruitment and workforce solutions. In FY23 we helped c.320,000 white-collar candidates secure their next career move, including c.245,000 Temp & Contracting roles and c.76,800 Perm jobs.
What sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding and our ability to meaningfully innovate for our customers. By providing advice, insights and expertise on issues they face today we help them make the right decisions for tomorrow. For our candidates, we’re looking ahead for their careers by offering insights, pathways and support for their ambitions, building our understanding so we can connect them to the right opportunities.
We operate across 22 different sectors across the globe. Our Construction & Property specialism has been a strong bedrock of our services for almost 50 years and we have developed specialist MEP Services within this specialism. This has lead to a long standing partnership with CIBSE. One our most recent new specialisms is sustainability and we’re excited to present roles in net zero and climate change, environmental social governance (ESG), sustainable buildings, energy and carbon management, environmental impact assessment (EIA), biodiversity and air quality, contaminated land, water management and flood risk management.
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Kooltech
Established in 1979 Kooltech is one of the UK's largest privately owned distributors of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning products.
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Airesales
Established in 1988 Airesales Scotland Ltd are independent specialist distributors supplying high quality HVAC products to the Building Services Industry via Mechanical Engineering Consultants, Architects, Constractors and End Users.
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