Talking Water 07 - Under Pressure - This event has already finished
8 November 2007 - GLA City Hall, London
Details :
The second BRE Talking Water event will be taking place on Thursday 8th November 2007 at London's GLA City Hall, on the banks of the River Thames. The focus of this year's event will be on water pressure and it will concentrate on the following 3 main topical areas:
- Water supply pressure
- Water requirements for the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH)
- Product supply and training
The format for the day will consist of four 10 minute presentations on each of the following 3 topics, followed by a expert panel debate and facilitated workshop forum.
Water supply pressure
- Drivers for reducing water supply pressure
- Physics of water
- The water companies predicament
- Impact on different 'types of user'
- Fire Services
- Insurers
- Landlords
- Facility Managers
- Elderly, Infirm And Very Young People
- Households
- Possible solutions
- Selection criteria
- Future and conclusions
Water requirements for CSH
- Brief overview of future water use constraints as set out in the CSH
Method of calculation - Impact on different 'types of user'
- Housebuilders
- Specifyers
- Planners
- Water Suppliers
- Wastewater Undertakers
- Households
- Possible Future modifications
Product supply and training
- Situation regarding skills and supply of plumbers, system designers and inspectors
- Schemes to improve supply of appropriately trained people
- Green Plumbing initiatives
- Public Health Engineering education (Degrees / Certificates etc)
- Competent persons
- The role of Certification
- Impacts on and of the supply chain
- Options to enhance the supply chain
- Product Certification, labelling and marking
- GreenBook Live
BRHG members are entitled to a 25% discount.
Programme :
| 09:30 | Registration & refreshments | |
| 10:00 | Welcome and introduction from the Chair Lord Selbourne, Chairman of the House of Lords' Water Management Committee | |
| 10:10 | Water supply pressure - To reduce water losses from supply systems, water companies may operate a policy of reducing the supply pressure. The benefits, drivers, physics, detrimental consequences and possible solutions will be explored | |
| 11:30 | Refreshments | |
| 11:50 | Water requirements for CSH - The Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) has been introduced by CLG as a possible replacement for Building Regulations in England. Within the CSH are mandatory and tradable elements that cover projected water usage. The method of calculating the consumption targets has proved to be controversial. The impacts on various users and possible future modifications will be discussed. | |
| 13:10 | Lunch, netowrking and opportunity to view GLA building | |
| 14:00 | Product supply and training - For the CSH and other sustainable construction aspects to take place there needs to be adequate and appropriate products readily available. As well as the products, appropriately skilled professionals, trades people and inspectors are needed. Progress in these areas is being made, but is it and will it be, enough? Some of the current initiatives and proposed schemes will be examined. | |
| 15:20 | Chairman's summary and close |
Speakers for the day will include:
Intended
audience :
To register for this event, please use the online booking facility below.
For more information:
Caroline McGill
events@bre.co.uk
01923 664800