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published: 12/5/2011
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Innovation a key component of BRE's INSITE11 event
BRE has announced new dates for its INSITE11 event which takes place from 4-5 Oct at its head office site in Watford. The event, which focuses on bringing innovations from the future to buildings of the past, will include a showcase of fifty new and near to market refurbishment technologies and materials that aspire to transform the retrofit arena.
The event also includes a two day conference that looks at how we revitalise our buildings and communities, and create spaces that are great to live in and conducive to long term occupant wellbeing. Another strong theme will focus on aspect of performance in operation, highlighting the need to measure both physical and social aspects of developments to inform future projects and the supply chain. Recent success storiesfrom both new and existing developments will be featured in the conference that demonstrate creative and business led approaches to refurbishment.INSITE11, which is being delivered by BRE in association with the National Refurbishment Centre, and the Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network aims to bring the right people together from the entire supply chain – the products, materials and services to clients, specifiers and investors – who, together, can translate the bigger retrofit challenges into business opportunities and ultimately drive market transformation.
INSITE11 Project Director Deborah Pullen said ‘With existing buildings responsible for almost half of the UKs total carbon emissions, the need to refurbish our building stock is indisputable. But how we do it at volume and achieve the desired outcomes in terms of carbon reduction, occupant satisfaction and business growth is the real challenge and one which this event will tackle head on.’
Other features include
- Tours of BRE’s own refurbishment project the Victorian Terrace and the BRE Innovation Park including the newly completed Princes Foundation Natural House
- Briefings and interactive workshops in specific and related topics
- Active pitches and 1 to 1 surgeries with public and private funders
- Case study exemplars of leading edge retrofit projects from across the UK and abroad
- CIOB Research & Innovation Awards
- 90th anniversary tours of the BRE site
- BRE Training taster sessions
'The Insite11 conference and exhibition offers our members the opportunity to view new technologies that are capable of transforming our industry,' says Saleem Akram, Director of Construction Innovation and Development at the Chartered Institute of Building (who are partners on the event), ' We are very excited about developing our relationship with BRE and jointly delivering our International Innovation and Research Awards at the event in October. Our awards play an important role by bringing together practitioners, education and training providers and policy makers. This interaction helps to develop, promote and implement new ideas and methods across the industry which is paramount to not only our membership base but to the whole of the built environment internationally.'
For more information on how you can get involved with INSITE11 as a sponsor, innovator/exhibitor or delegate please contact Linda McKeown 01923 664569, email mckeownl@bre.co.uk or log on to www.INSITE11.com
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