For its 2012 Annual Conference the Zero Carbon Hub has attracted a strong speaker programme to assess progress towards the 2016 zero carbon homes policy target. As in 2011, the Conference will bring delegates up to speed with the latest developments and will highlight the activities crucial to successful delivery of the policy.

Conference Chair - Paul King, UK Green Building Council

AGENDA:

Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP, Minister for Housing and Local Government (invited)

Stewart Baseley, Home Builders Federation

Mark Clare, Barratt Developments plc

Zero carbon homes and the wider policy context

Neil Jefferson, Zero Carbon Hub

Paul Morrell, Government Chief Construction Advisor

Don Leiper, E.ON Energy Solutions

Peter Andrew, Taylor Wimpey UK

Focus on the consumer

Imtiaz Farookhi, NHBC

Stephen Noakes, Lloyds Banking Group

Elizabeth Ness, Crest Nicholson plc

Carolanne Dieleman, Stewart Milne Group

Focus on delivery

Mike Chaldecott, Saint Gobain Habitat Group & British Gypsum

Peter Youll, Linden Homes

Ray Morgan, Woking Borough Council

Richard Partington, Richards Partington Architects

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The GHA and UKIEG are working together to bring you this joint meeting, with the UKIEG annual conference being held in the morning and with the GHA workshop on healthy homes following on in the afternoon.

Higher standards of air tightness associated with the drive towards low carbon homes lead to significant questions about how to ensure good ventilation. However, feedback has suggested that there have been a number of poor installations and common problems with different ventilation approaches, so how do we ensure best practice design, installation, commissioning and ongoing maintenance, all vital components to the success of the system to deliver good indoor air quality to maximise the health and wellbeing of occupants?

The GHA has been researching case studies that have monitored data to prove good indoor air quality to understand if there are any common approaches that help to define best practice. We will present a summary of this work at the event, along with examples of good practice in MVHR and natural ventilation, and experience of different approaches from Europe.

 AGM for the Good Homes Alliance

 Part L regulations are a key to the Government’s target to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050, and to zero carbon 2016 targets. Following the anticipated consultation of Part L 2013 in Autumn 2011, this session will examine the likely changes to Part L and their impacts; how to meet the new proposed requirements and an examination of the likely strengthening of as-built requirements. 

The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Good Homes Alliance (GHA) have joined forces to deliver this timely half-day event. This seminar will be an opportunity to take stock of planning reform and to ask the big questions: what kind of planning will England have in 2012 and what does this mean for delivering high quality, sustainable homes and communities

Following a period of significant reform of both planning and housing policy, the seminar will be an opportunity to gain an understanding of the new planning system, including an update on the Localism Act and the National Planning Policy Framework. It will also provide the opportunity to reflect on the changes and look at a number of emerging themes, including the most effective balance between strategic housing policy and an emphasis on the localism approach; the balance between traditional land use regulation and fiscal incentives; and the degree to which, taken as whole, the reforms provide for a socially progressive framework which will ensure access to high quality sustainable homes and communities.