Build Net Zero NOW: Net zero and the role of MMC

Date: Tuesday 20th April

Time: 13:00 – 15:00

Location: Online (Zoom)

Event summary

The first in a series of online events, held in conjunction with our Build Net Zero NOW campaign. During this session, we will explore the role of modern methods of construction in delivering high quality, net zero new homes.

About the campaign

The campaign was formally launched at a Good Homes 2020 conference session on 3rd November 2020 and will run throughout 2021. The aim is to showcase how new homes can be built at scale to net zero standards now, rather than by 2025 or 2030. This ambition is shared by many GHA members, including members of our local authority Vanguard Network and housing association Pathfinder Network, that are set to build 100,000+ new homes over the next 10 years.

Programme

13:00 Welcome from the Chair – Lynne Sullivan, Chair, Good Homes Alliance

13:15 MMC in the UK and the Platform Design Programme – Keith Waller, Programme Director, Construction Innovation Hub

13:30 Net zero MMC and the procurement challenge – Chris Clarke, Performance and Improvement Director, SCAPE

13:45 ‘One Planet Living’ and MMC – Ronan Leyden, Head of Sustainable Places, Bioregional

14:00 Natural materials and net zero MMC – Ian Pritchett, Managing Director, Greencore Construction/Ssassy Property

14:15 Local authority action and MMC – Rafe Bertram, Sustainability Facilitator, Enfield Council/Meridian Water

14:30 Debate/Q&A

15:00 Close

Speakers

Lynne Sullivan, Chair, Good Homes Alliance

Lynne is a practising Architect and was founding Partner of sustainableBYdesign, finalists in all 2010-2012 BRE Passivhaus housing Competitions. Previously, Lynne was Sustainability Director for 9 years at Broadway Malyan, and for 10 years Associate Director at ECD Architects. She has advised successive UK governments on sustainability and energy efficiency in the built environment, and chaired the Expert Panel for the Scottish Government whose report “A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland” was published in 2007 and updated in 2013. Lynne is a Visiting Professor, design consultant and review panel member, and was awarded an OBE for services to Architecture in 2011. She is a member of the UK Government’s Green Construction Board.

Keith Waller, Programme Director, Construction Innovation Hub

Keith Waller is the Construction Innovation Hub’s Programme Director. A Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Keith has been involved in construction and infrastructure projects for over 30 years, leading many major projects in both the UK and overseas. In 2010, Keith was seconded into government with Infrastructure UK (the predecessor to the Infrastructure and Projects Authority). He has served on several boards and cross-Whitehall groups, including the Infrastructure Client Group, the Offshore Wind Programme Board, Infrastructure Working Group of the Green Construction Board and the Government Construction Board. He has also advised a number of foreign governments on strategic infrastructure planning and delivery. A keen advocate of driving innovative and productive solutions, his work in government led to the publication of the UK’s first National Infrastructure Plan, the development of the Infrastructure Cost Review and the IPA’s Transforming Infrastructure Performance programme, published in 2017.

Chris Clarke, Performance and Improvement Director, SCAPE

Chris joined SCAPE in 2015, with over 14 years’ experience working in Local Government, delivering complex organisational change and leading service improvement and efficiency initiatives in the built environment sector. As Director of Performance and Improvement, he provides strategic input into the improvement of SCAPE’s service offering and the development of new products, and ensures SCAPE records, plays back and maximises best practice performance measures for its clients to clearly evidence project success. He is also responsible for our group Risk Management strategy, infrastructure and systems.

Ronan Leyden, Head of Sustainable Places, Bioregional

Ronan has 15 years experience working on the sustainability and design quality of the built environment with a particular focus on residential-led schemes and stakeholder engagement, working across design, construction and operations. Ronan leads the built environment team at Bioregional, focussing on delivery of technical projects ranging from masterplan visioning for large scale new town residential-led schemes through to research and development projects focussed on smart grid peer-to-peer energy consumption and retrofit opportunities in the social housing sector.

Ian Pritchett, Managing Director, Greencore Construction/Ssassy Property

Ian has 30 years of experience in the construction industry, including 20 years of running a highly regarded historic building restoration company. Over the last 15 years, Ian has pioneered eco-building using low carbon materials such as hemp and lime mortar, whilst working on over 250 eco-houses and 50 non-domestic eco-buildings. Ian is currently Managing Director of Greencore Construction, who are delivering pioneering low and zero-carbon houses using its own Biond building system - a closed panel timber frame system insulated with Lime-Hemp and natural fibre insulation. Greencore has been scaling up the delivery of eco-housing by partnering with investors to develop medium size sites. The latest project at Springfield Meadows, Oxfordshire is a partnership with Ssassy Property and will be the first residential scheme to deliver a zero carbon-footprint, net-zero energy in use and One Planet Living in the same project.

Rafe Bertram, Sustainability Facilitator, Enfield Council/Meridian Water

Rafe's role at Meridian Water and the London Borough of Enfield is an in-house Sustainability Facilitator – helping embed climate action and sustainable strategies into all projects, workstreams and activities. Meridian Water is a major £6bn, 20-year London regeneration programme led by Enfield Council, bringing 10,000 homes and thousands of jobs to Enfield, north London, next door to the beautiful Lee Valley Regional Park. Rafe is a Public Practice Alumni, a not-for-profit social enterprise with a mission to improve the quality and equality of everyday places by building the public sector’s capacity for proactive planning. Rafe's previous experience includes 18 years at Foster+Partners where projects included smart sustainable cities, tents for the Red Cross, Apple Stores, new ultra-fast transport networks, prefabricated buildings, town centre regeneration and climate restorative living / working / making neighbourhoods.

Key information and booking

Date: Tuesday 20th April

Time: 13:00-15:00

Location: Online (Zoom)

Registration fees (All fees exclusive of VAT):

£10.00 for GHA members
£17.50 for members of partner organisations*
£25.00 for non-members

*Partner organisations – AECB, Building Performance Network, Passivhaus Trust, STBA, The Green Register, The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products, Woodknowledge Wales.

Booking: Registration via Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/build-net-zero-now-net-zero-and-the-role-of-mmc-tickets-146608336481.

A few days before the event, registered attendees will receive an email directly from the GHA with further information and joining instructions.

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Further information: Please contact Richard Broad, Communications & Events Manager, GHA – richard@goodhomes.org.uk.