Building a better world

Low Carbon Buildings Programme Phase 2 (LCBP2) seminar - This event has already finished

Free one-day seminar

2 June 2008 - BRE, Watford

Details :

Grants of up to £1 million per site are available to public sector building owners and managers - including schools, hospitals, housing associations and local authorities - and charitable bodies, to help them gain the benefits of renewable and low carbon energy generation technologies.

This funding can be used for the supply and installation of any combination of the following microgeneration technologies:

  • solar photovoltaics
  • solar thermal hot water
  • wind turbines
  • ground source heat pumps
  • automated wood pellet stoves
  • wood fuelled boiler systems

Speakers from BERR ( Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), the Department funding the programme, and BRE, which is managing the scheme, will explain the application process, the microgeneration technologies involved, and their installation, energy output and potential for reducing carbon emissions. The keynote address for this event will be given by a Government Minister.

This event will be followed by a series of regional events throughout the UK as follows:

14 May Bristol 
27 May Nottingham

4 June Manchester

11 June Cambridge 
19 June Edinburgh 
25 June Newcastle
30 June London

For for further information please visit http://www.lowcarbonbuildingsphase2.org.uk/

To register for this event, please follow the link for online booking below.

Programme :

09:30 Registration and refreshments  
10:30 Welcome from Chair Peter Bonfield, BRE Executive 
10:40Keynote address Government Minister
10:55 Applying for grants and progress so far Monika Munzinger, BRE
11:25 Case Study 1: Solar Hot Water Installation in Existing Properties

Karl Hansen, The Living Rainforest

11:45 Case Study 2: From red to greenIan Shaw & Alwyn Frank, Environmental and
Energy Officer & Project Manager, London Fire Brigade
12:05 Introduction to Framework Suppliers Monika Munzinger, BRE
12:15 Summary and conclusion  
12:30 Lunch and exhibition 
13:30 Tour of BRE Innovation Park  
15:00 Close  
During refreshment breaks delegates will get the chance to view the exhibition stands

Download the booking form: LCBP2_invite.pdf

For more information:
BRE Events
events@bre.co.uk
01923 664800