On Wednesday 11th September 2024, as a precursor to the London Design Festival (14th-22nd September), we invite you to join The Green Register, Good Homes Alliance and Pollard Thomas Edwards for an evening of topical discussion, networking and drinks.
The UK faces both a housing shortage and a race to reduce carbon output, but common perceptions of additional costs and a sector skills gap stand in the way of delivering high-performance new homes at scale. Can new approaches help us tackle both climate and housing crises?
Panel speakers include:
- Tom Dollard, Partner – Sustainability and Innovation, Pollard Thomas Edwards
- Emma Osmundsen, Assistant Director Housing Regeneration, Ealing Council
- Tom Westwood, Programme Director, The Green Register
- Richard Pender, Development Manager, TOWN
The panel discussion will be followed by networking and drinks.
Event kindly supported by Ecological Building Systems
Programme
17.00 Welcome and drinks
17.30 Panel discussion and debate
18.00 Drinks and networking
19.30 Close
Key information
Date: Wednesday 11th September 2024
Time: 17:00 – 19:30
Location: Diespeker Wharf, 38 Graham Street, London, N1 8JX
Fee: Free, registration essential
About the speakers
Tom Dollard, BArch DipArch ARB RIBA, Partner – Sustainability and Innovation, Pollard Thomas Edwards
As partner of sustainability and innovation, Tom leads PTE’s ever-evolving zero carbon culture providing project teams with training, support and inspiration. He is focused on practical, implementable solutions that ensure a building’s in-use energy performance matches the design intent.
Tom is Vice-Chair of the Good Homes Alliance, a member of the CIBSE homes for the future group and has been part of various publications and research projects for Government and industry to help increase supply of low carbon homes. He is a certified Passivhaus Designer, BREEAM Accredited Professional.
His work for the Zero Carbon Hub and Building for 2050 has helped address the performance gap in the delivery of energy efficient homes. A second printing of Tom’s best-selling 2018 book for RIBA, “Designed to Perform: An illustrated guide to delivering energy efficient homes” was published in 2022.
Emma Osmundsen, Assistant Director Housing Regeneration, Ealing Council
Emma has been championing Passivhaus in the UK since 2009 when she delivered the UK’s first multi-residential Passivhaus development in Exeter. Since then she has delivered hundreds of Passivhaus homes as well as the UK’s first Passivhaus Extra-Care village and the UK’s first Passivhaus Leisure Centre.
Emma is passionate about helping homes to be high performing, climate-ready and healthy within a realistic budget. She is a Chartered Building Surveyor and heads up Housing Regeneration at Ealing Council. Emma is a Trustee of the UK Passivhaus Trust.
Richard Pender, Development Manager, TOWN
Richard started his career in Public Affairs, focusing on environmental issues, before moving into development through small-scale property projects and designing his parents’ house, Shawm House, in Northumberland. Shawm House won an RIBA National Award and was a Grand Designs House of the Year runner-up, inspiring Richard to establish Shawm Ltd., a design and build company that delivered Tyneside’s first certified Passivhaus. He holds a BA in History and Politics, MSc degrees in Psychology and Renewable Energy, and is a certified Passivhaus Consultant. Before joining TOWN, Richard spent a year at KLH Sustainability, enhancing his expertise in sustainable practices across the built environment.
Tom Westwood ARB, Programme Director, The Green Register
Tom is an architect with over 20 years experience designing and delivering both residential and commercial buildings. He is passionate about sustainability with particular expertise in modern timber structures such as Glulam and Cross Laminated Timber, and has advocated widely for their greater adoption.
Tom has also worked client-side in Bristol City Council’s Housing Delivery Team before joining The Green Register to further his mission to help all those involved in the built environment design and build more sustainably. Tom is also a lecturer in architecture at Bath Spa University.
Image credits: Pollard Thomas Edwards