FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Built Environment Briefing:
Renewable Heat
Thursday 1 March 2012
5.30pm - 9.00pm
Hosted by
15 Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1JP
THIS EVENT QUALIFIES FOR CPD POINTS FOR A RANGE OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES. CERTIFICATES OF ATTENDANCE CAN BE PROVIDED ON REQUEST.
This focused, early evening event will set out the very latest in knowledge and experience gained by leading practitioners of renewable heat solutions. With the Renewable Heat Incentive almost upon us, solar thermal, air source and ground source heat pumps, which are the most tried and tested of all the renewables in the UK, will be taken up by even more building owners. This briefing and subsequent networking will provide you with a good grounding and a complete update of the incentive and how it works and the very latest on these renewable heat technologies.
Evening agenda
17.30 Registration
18.00 Welcome - Michael Rudd, Bird & Bird
18.05 Introduction - Clive Hall, CEO Eventure Media
18.10 Types of Renewable Heat and the Renewable Heat Incentive - Dave Sowden, CEO JDS Associates
18.25 Renewable Heat Deployment - Michael Rudd, Bird & Bird
18.40 Solar thermal - Howard Johns, MD Southern Solar and Chair Solar Trade Association
18.55 Ground source heat pumps
19.10 Air source heat pumps
19.25 Speaker panel Q&As
19.45 Networking over drinks
21.00 Close
Speakers:
Dave Sowden is an experienced director in regulatory and public affairs with over two decades of experience in the energy industry and an outstanding track record in obtaining changes in UK and EU legislation and regulation. He is a sustainable energy expert and has had a pivotal role across a number of years in shaping key aspects of UK energy policy, especially in the energy efficiency, heating, and microgeneration sectors. He founded and is Chief Executive of the Micropower Council, an industry body that brings together utilities, manufacturers, retailers, installers and trade associations with the aim of promoting microgeneration technologies, and which has been the driving force behind significant changes in the law, government policies and regulation to further the interests of the microgeneration sector in the UK. His successful specialist consultancy business JDS Associates Ltd provides highly tailored strategy, policy and regulatory advice to a wide range of blue chip companies and SMEs in the sustainable energy sector, helping them to understand and shape the alignment between their commercial interests and the regulatory framework.
Howard Johns is the founder and MD of Southern Solar Ltd, and has been involved in the installation of solar hot water systems and PV systems for over ten years. He has a degree in Energy and Environmental technology and is also a qualified plumber. He has led the growth of Southern Solar to a business with seven offices and team of eighty staff. He is also Chairman of the Solar Trade Association (STA), and has been actively involved in lobbying Government to try to improve conditions for the industry. The STA represents over 450 solar energy companies in the UK. In this role Howard sat on the Heat and Hot Water Taskforce advising Ministers on renewable heat. He has held this position since 2006. Three years ago Howard founded OVESCo a pioneering local energy co-op project in his home town of Lewes. OVESCo successfully built one of the country’s first community owned PV power stations in 2011, installing 100kW on the roof of the local brewery “Harveys”.
Who should attend?
Architects, architectural technologists, sustainability professionals, surveyors, interior designers, property investment and fund managers, estates and facilities managers, property developers, builders, investors, analysts, corporate financial advisors, financiers, advisers and other followers of the market.
Registration
Each delegate place costs £35 + VAT and places are strictly limited.
To register: go to https://builtenvironmentmarch1.eventbrite.com/
or call 020 8870 9345
or email [email protected]