Findings from the Carbon Trust’s low carbon building accelerators programme

Wednesday 20th April 2011, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

For the last 5 years the Carbon Trust has been following 28 case study projects from both the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Low Carbon Buildings Programme and their own work on low carbon refurbishment, in most cases from design right through and into operation. The projects cover many sectors including retail, education, offices, other public sector buildings and mixed-use residential buildings.

The lessons and insights learnt from the large amount of qualitative and quantitative data collected on these projects have been recently published by the Carbon Trust in 12 standalone reports dealing with issues including the gap between design and performance, metering and monitoring, retrofitting renewables and managing risk.

The Debate reviewed the lessons learned from the research programme and interrogated the way forward

Chair:         Liz Peace, British Property Federation

Speakers: Will Ray, The Carbon Trust

                   Kevin Couling, AECOM

                   David Adams, Zero Carbon Hub & Willmott Dixon

Downloads: Debate notes