2011

September 6-7 2011, De Montfort University, Leicester

• Gina Barney, Gina Barney Associates - 'Energy models for lifts'

• Tim Bevan, BRE Global Ltd - 'How the new BREEAM 2011 version measures, quantifies and evaluates the key life cycle environmental impacts of new buildings at the design and construction stages'

• Huw Blackwell, Hoare Lea - 'Looking to the future: CHP, heat pumps and the best use of natural gas and biomass fuels'

• Tom Blight, University of Exeter - 'Modelling occupant behaviour in Passivhaus buildings: Bridging the energy gap'

• Edward Borgstein, Greentomatoenergy  - 'Low energy retrofit of historic terraced dwellings'

• Laurie Brady, Liverpool John Moores University - 'A main contractor's view on building services designers; external consultants or sub-contractor in-house design teams?'

• Trevor Butler, Archineers Consulting Limited - 'Investigating the potential benefits and risks for low to zero energy air sourced earth coupled cooling and heating systems'

• Greta Caruana-Smith, Architecture Project - 'Energy efficient refurbishment of school buildings: Industrial views and usability of various building design tools'

• Ben Croxford, University College London - 'A carbon, energy and cost assessment of whether to refurbish or rebuild aging UK residential blocks'

• Robert Diamond, Ingleton Wood LLP - 'BREEAM - The ‘Harsh' reality'

• Ken Dooley, Olof Granlund Oy - 'Linking energy to people in order to measure and control'

• Alan Dunn, London South Bank University - 'Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis of load profiles when assessing CCHP feasibility' (poster)

• Esam Elsarrag, Gulf Organisation for Research and Development - 'Experimental investigations on water recovery from the atmosphere in arid humid regions'

• Calina Ferraro, Building Life Consultancy - 'Crossing over: Thermal bridges and the design of the building fabric - a key concern for both architects and services engineers'

• Sophia Flucker, Operational Intelligence Limited  - 'Data centre cooling air performance metrics'

• Elio Galluzzi, Independent - 'Plate heat exchangers in residential buildings: How to avoid oversizing of primary distribution system'

• Mark Gilbey, Parsons Brinckerhoff Ltd - 'The potential for heat recovery from London Underground stations and tunnels'

• Mehreen Gul, Heriot Watt University - 'Climate change projections and office buildings design: A qualitative study'

• David Hamlyn, Breathing Buildings Ltd  - 'Whole building ventilation strategy selection - a toolkit' (poster)

• Mike Hancock, Dee Associates - 'Indoor swimming pools and leisure centres - A model to improve operational effectiveness and reduce environmental impact'

• Neil Hewitt, Ulster University - 'The future of efficient heat pumps for home retrofits'

• David Jenkins, Heriot Watt University - 'Optimising probabilistic climate building simulations for school overheating assessments'

• James Johnston, University of Strathclyde  - 'Trends in office internal gains and the impact on space heating and cooling'

• Phil Jones, Building Energy Solutions - 'CIBSE review of energy benchmarks for Display Energy Certificates'

• Yousaf Khalid, University of Strathclyde - 'Controllability of buildings: A multi-input multi-output stability assessment method for buildings with fast acting heating systems'

• John Kingsland, University of Aberdeen / Brian Hunter, METERology - 'Using existing meters for web based real time energy monitoring'

• John Lane, Cundall - 'Methods for achieving meaningful open communication between building control systems' (poster)

• Michael Lim, AECOM  - 'Climate change adaptation of existing buildings: The case of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine'

• John Littlewood, University of Wales Institute Cardiff  - 'Development of a thermography protocol for the in-construction testing of the thermal performance of low carbon dwellings'

• Dennis Loveday, Loughborough University - 'Refurbishing the UK's ‘hard to treat' dwelling stock: Understanding challenges and constraints - the work of Project CALEBRE'

• Clare Lowe, Southfacing Services Ltd  - 'Common data metrics for efficient and informed delivery of environmental assessments'

• Anna Manezes, AECOM  - 'Analysis of electricity consumption for lighting and small power in office buildings'

• Graham Manly, Gratte Brothers - 'The CIBSE CARBON 60 project: Measures, metering and lessons'

• John Mardaljevic, De Montfort University - 'Simulation of the non-visual effects of daylight'

• Charles McGilligan, University of Bath - 'Use of adaptive comfort degree-days to compare energy savings from adaptive comfort standards for future UK climates'

• Gavin Murphy, University of Strathclyde - 'Symbolic energy estimation model with optimum start algorithm implementation'

• Salvaraj Naicker, De Montford University - 'Monitoring and performance analysis of large non-domestic ground source heat pump installation'

• Sacha Oberweis, Staffordshire University - 'Performance and emissions evaluation of absorption refrigeration cooling from biomass waste heat'

• David Palmer-Stevens, Panduit - 'Edison could be right in the long run, there is a place for DC power'

• David Parry, IBSA - 'Benefits of renewing large heating systems'

• Stephen Poritt, De Montfort University - 'Assessment of interventions to reduce dwelling overheating during heat waves considering annual energy use and cost'

• Maria Spyrou, Loughborough University - 'Energy consumption prediction models for the retail sector'

• Gavin Summerson, BRE Global Ltd - 'Lessons learnt from piloting BREEAM domestic refurbishment'

• Peter Tse, BSRIA Ltd - 'Probabilistic estimation of service life' -  (poster)

• Zafer Ure, Phase Material Products Limited - 'Phase change material (PCM) based energy storage materials and global application examples'

• Christabel Watts, University of Southampton - 'Implications of Energy Performance Certificates for the UK domestic building stock: Feeback from a Southampton homeowner survey'

• Ron Wilkinson, AKF Group - 'Life cycle sustainability: Commissioning, CIBSE and the US International Green Construction Code'

• David Williams, Parsons Brinckerhoff - Projecting building energy demand using probabilistic weather conditions accounting for climate change

•  Paul Woods, AECOM - 'CHP and district heating: How efficient are these technologies?'