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Below is the programme.

Day One

09:45 - Room A: Welcome - Tadj Oreszczyn, Director of the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources
Opening address: Nick Mead, CIBSE President Elect

10:00 - Opening Session - Room A
Case Study: Danish buildings 1986-2014. From simple building services to complex building services - and back again? - Sergio Fox, Architecture withouth Engineers, Denmark

10:30 - Parallel Sessions

Session 2 - Room A: Modelling for building reality (IBPSA) - Chaired by Rokia Raslan, UCL

  • Climate-based daylight modelling and its discontents - John Mardaljevic, Loughborough University
  • Modelling ‘Buildings In Use’ effects on heterogeneous turbulent sensible heat In real urban districts - Mohammed Bakkali, UCL
  • Urban heat island analysis of Birmingham and Manchester for the creation of new Design Summer Years - Dane Virk, UCL and CIBSE
  • SmartBuildingAnalyser: A parametric early-stage analysis tool for multi- objective building design - James Ramsden, University of Bath

Session 3 - Room B: Soaking up the sun - Chaired by Tariq Muneer, Edinburgh Napier University

  • CIBSE Guide A2 - Tariq Muneer, Edinburgh Napier University
  • Investigating the impact of ground albedo on the performance of PV systems - Yash Kotak, Heriot-Watt University
  • Automated daylight autonomy made real - Sam Woodward, Lutron EA Ltd
  • Experiencing daylight. Why office architecture is not promoting healthy work environments and what kind of design approach can improve the existing situation? - Karolina Zielinska-Dabkowska, Hochschule Wismar, Germany

Session 4 - Room C: Passive or aggressive building operation? Chaired by David Fitzpatrick, Ruskin UK

  • Analysis of the first and lifetime cost benefits of increased insulation to 2010 and 2013 levels - Ewan Jones, AECOM and Tony Ryan, Kingspan
  • Sustainable indoor comfort concepts with PCM containing building materials - Marco Schmidt, BASF, Germany
  • 350 Euston Road: Improving building performances and carbon footprint with innovative HVAC solutions - Phil Draper, Broadgate Estates
  • Evaluating appropriate residential ventilation strategies in dense urban environments and the challenges for passive design - Ashley Bateson, Hoare Lea


12:15 - Session 5 - Room A: Compendiary presentations for posters 1 - Chaired by Mike Smith, BSRIA Ltd

  • How does a well-insulated building, during a UK heat wave, perform in comparison to its predicted performance? - Lloyd Phillips (research undertaken while at Loughborough University)
  • Occupant comfort in mid-rise residential buildings in Abuja, Nigeria: The trade-off between thermal and visual performance - Mahmood Abdulkareem, University of Portsmouth
  • Are we significantly oversizing domestic water systems? - Jess Tindall, Northumbria University
  • An integrated carbon and sustainability index from green buildings in the tropics - Shireen Jahnkassim, International Islamic University Malaysia

13:40 - Parallel sessions

Session 6 - Room A: Information driven building modelling - Chaired by Andrew Geens, CIBSE

  • How manufacturer’s ‘Active BIM’ objects can help achieve BIM level 2 compliance - Warwick Taylor, S & P Coil Products Limited
  • The integration of building energy system optimisation modeling into the building design process - Doug Baldock, Hoare Lea
  • Towards BIM-integrated, resource- efficient building services - Mike Medas, AECOM
  • Development of a web-based BMS data visualisation platform using Building Information Models - Ronan McCaffrey, National University of Ireland

Session 7 - Room B: Networking for success - Chaired by Emilia Targonska, Hoare Lea

  • Combined HV-LV earthing of substations in the built environment - Tony Sung, Chair of CIBSE Electrical Services Group
  • Integral approach from user towards Smart Grid - Yang Zhao, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  • The price of heat and the regulation of the UK’s heat market - Thomas Briault, Arup
  • The development of a new Heat Networks Code of Practice - Phil Jones, Building Energy Solutions

Session 8 - Room C: Lessons for Future Schools (Sponsored by the School Design Group) - Chaired by Dejan Mumovic, UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering

  • CIBSE TM57 Integrated School Design: Overview - John Palmer, AECOM
  • The use of the curriculum, school buildings and Iris as tools for learning, occupant awareness and collection of simple post-occupancy data - Isabel Why, Inkling LLP
  • Climate based daylight modelling and the optimisation of school classroom design - An industrial view - Iain Hill, Mott MacDonald
  • Case study: Review of control strategy for a primary school built to PassivHaus standard - Chryssa Thoua, Architype

15:45 - Parallel sessions

Session 9 - Room A: Evaluating real operational performance - Chaired by Geoff Prudence, Chair of CIBSE Facilities Management Group

  • Analytics of building management systems for improved energy and plant performance - Andre Pinho, Johnson Controls
  • The development of a new voluntary Display Energy Certificate Scheme (VolDECs) for commercial offices - Malcolm Hanna, The National Energy Foundation
  • Lessons for improving building performance based on two-year evaluation of a city-centre hotel - Julie Godefroy, Hoare Lea

Session 10 - Room B: Improving building performance through monitoring -  Chaired by Andrew Saville, Armville Consultancy

  • Automatic commissioning of CO2 sensors in air conditioning systems - Arie Taal, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  • Simulation of proactive occupancy based HVAC control for Linate Airport, Milan - Blaise Kelly, Austrian Institute of Technology
  • Effectiveness of monitoring energy consumption in domestic dwellings - Patrick Fleming, Opus21 Ltd

Session 11 - Room C: Sustainable cooling by system integration -  Chaired by David Hughes, CIBSE Past President

  • Opportunities for combined heating and cooling using data centres - Gareth Davies, London South Bank University
  • The potential use of the mains water loop for cooling, heat and energy networks - Graeme Maidment and Alex Paurine, London South Bank University
  • Fuel Cells: Providing combined cooling and power to data centres - Daragh Campbell, Imperial College London

17:00 - Session 12 - Room A: Mock arbitration - Chaired by Richard Rooley, ASHRAE Past President
Arbitrator:  Victoria Russell, Partner, Fenwick Elliott, LLP
Contractor: Richard Rooley

18:00 - (approx.) Day one close


Day Two

09:00 - Session 13 - Room A: Learning from actual building performance - Chaired by Graeme Maidment, IoR President

  • Creating a robust dataset for benchmarking the cultural building sector - Luke Ramsay, Julie’s Bicycle
  • Building performance evaluation of dwellings: A case study of the Seager Distillery development - Michael Lim, AECOM and Steve Harper, Galliard Homes
  • A review of the predicted energy performance of buildings assessed against BREEAM New Construction 2011 - Jose Ortiz, BRE Global Ltd

10:40 - Parallel sessions

Session 14 - Room A: Understanding real building performance - Chaired by Susie Diamond, Inkling LLP

  • TM54: Beyond the methodology - the process of evaluating operational energy performance of buildings at the design stage - Matthew Webster, British Land
  • A tale of two civic buildings: Comparative evaluation of the actual energy performance of a ‘sustainable’ community centre and a public library building - Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University
  • Why education and user feedback won’t close the Performance Gap for university accommodation - Aaron Gillich, London South Bank University
  • Engineering design for In-use: Modelling of occupancy presence in an acute hospital in the UK - Matthew Bacon, The Conclude Consultancy Limited

Session 15 - Room B: Futuristic performance for real buildings - Chaired by Geoff Levermore, University of Manchester

  • Generative HVAC design and how it could affect consulting engineering - Andrew Corney, Sefaira
  • Carbon reduction and energy optimization strategy for one NHS Trust - Issa Chaer, London South Bank University
  • Investigation of the sensitivity of the future climate and building construction standards to the ground source heat pump (GSHP) design - Bobo Ng, Northumbria University
  • Ecoshopping: Energy efficient & cost competitive retrofitting solutions for retail buildings - Andy Lewry, BRE

Session 16 - Room C: The natural solution (sponsored by the Natural Ventilation Group) -  Chaired by Martin Liddament, Chair of CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group

  • CIBSE Guide A 2015 - Overview of enhanced aspects of ventilation assessment - Martin Liddament, Chair of CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group
  • Passive ventilation and cooling - Shaun Fitzgerald, Breathing Buildings
  • Passive cooling strategies in Plus-Energy houses - Malcolm Cook, Loughborough University
  • Productivity, investment and energy in a naturally ventilated ‘lean’ office development - Craig Robertson, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Ltd


12:25 - Session 17 - Room A: Symposium sponsor address

  • Continuous flow water heaters - Simple innovation to ​meet energy and regulatory demands - Chris Goggin, Rinnai UK


12:35 - Session 18 - Room A: Compendiary presentations for posters 2 - Chaired by Charlotte Mercer, AECOM

  • Renewable energy technologies in campus-sized developments: A spatial study - Hadi Arbabi, University of Sheffield
  • Cost effective low carbon store analysis and replication - Julien Bos, Imperial College London
  • Optimising a multi-storey atrium building for stack ventilation - Andrew Acred, University of Cambridge
  • Performance analysis of a fuel cell micro-CHP - The CIBSE HQ case study - Alem Tesfai, KTP Associate CIBSE


14:00 - Session 19 - Room A: Realising truly sustainable buildings - Chaired by Lynne Jack, Heriot Watt University

  • Misconception of insulation in energy efficient buildings - Conn Yuen, CO2nnsulting, Hong Kong
  • S-Curves to model and visualise the Energy Performance Gap between design and reality – First steps to a practical tool - Roderic Bunn, BSRIA & UCL
  • The sustainable efficacy of design approaches to the delivery of truly sustainable buildings - Gillian Menzies, Heriot-Watt University
  • Fifty shades of green, or why we should live in a luxuriant urban oasis - Elinor Huggett, Max Fordham LLP


15:35 - Conference close, prize presentation and drinks reception - Chaired by Hywel Davies, CIBSE Technical Director

16:30 - (approx.) Day two close

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