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
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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