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Sustainable Construction - An introduction to the Green Register

Start Date: 21st Jan 10 •21/22 January 2010: 2 days: 10.30am to 5pm
Location: Central London
Are you confused about Government sustainable construction legislation, and how it will affect your company? Interested in learning how sustainability can help to meet your business priorities? Looking for independent, high quality training on sustainable construction practices? Then this is the course for you.

Course summary

The two day course covers a wide range of issues related to green construction, including legislation and construction methods and materials.

Course Aims

  • The course aims to introduce you to a wide range of issues relating to more environmentally friendly development, including:
  • Sustainable Building - the background picture
  • Relevant legislation
  • Sustainable water in the UK
  • Low carbon technologies

Indicative Syllabus Content

Content includes:
  • Air tightness - current legislation and problems with achieving an airtight construction
  • Ventilation - passive cooling versus air conditioning
  • Thermal mass - its effectiveness in offsetting the effects of climate change
  • Passive solar - the benefits
  • Healthy interiors - background issues including indoor air quality, plus explanations of some of the alternatives to conventional paints and flooring
  • Energy efficiency
  • Combined heat and power CHP
  • Wind generation
  • Heat pumps
  • Solar PV
  • Bureaucratic pitfalls

Teaching and Learning Methods

Day one is delivered through presentations and discussion; day two comprises of workshops.

Course Information


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This course is part of Strand 2. Please make sure you have read and understood the terms and conditions before you continue and confirm your booking.

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Feedback

kathybash

Thank you for the great lectures today. It is brilliant to put together, we came out with bags of knowledge. I really feel much more confident how and where to find the information. Is it possible to ask to put the lectrures on the build-up site or post the link in the forum on linkedIn. Many thanks Kathy

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patwest

This was an excellent course and I recommend it highly. The instructors were all very knowledgeable and enthusiastic and it was good to get a balanced view on Green Issues. I would have liked to attend all the seminars - it was hard to choose. The course could have run over 3 days with less options per day - ie same number of lectures overall with more people in each lecture. The course description didn't clearly describe the course and I didn't know what to expect - fortunately it far exceeded my limited expectations. Very good course - some technical problems with the text size of the handouts (too small), room scheduling and AV equipment.