Ecobuild has unveiled its full conference programme which includes a number of major industry names and Westminster speakers, with support from global sustainable construction leaders Skanska and Lend Lease.
Speakers include Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, Natalie Bennett, head of the Green Party, Lord John Prescott, former Deputy Prime Minister and UK negotiator for the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and Alistair Campbell, former British PM spokesman.
Other names on the line-up at the world’s leading sustainable design, construction and energy event are RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect Steve Tompkins of Haworth Tompkins, Sir John Armitt, former chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, and Lord Deben, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change.
Lord Prescott will tackle a lively debate asking Is it time for a national environmental resilience plan? The discussion will focus upon climate change mitigation strategies which require a long-term national infrastructure plan backed with sufficient funding.
Designer Oliver Heath from the BBC’s Home Front and Changing Rooms series’ will look at how incorporating nature creates value and improves wellbeing in buildings.
Sponsored by Skanska and Lend Lease, the conference will include a future gazing first for the event - cross-party political discussion around the future of the sustainable built environment. The full Ecobuild politician line-up will be publicised nearer the event.
Key conference sessions include:
Does a ‘no’ vote for European membership mean the end of UK sustainability policy?
The mainstream zero carbon home – will it ever happen?
Greening the grid – is low-carbon electricity a vote loser?
Are smart cities a positive sustainability benefit or an unwelcome invasion of privacy?
Happiness by design: How the built environment drives feeling and behaviour
Innovation and new materials: Could they revolutionise sustainable construction?
For more information about Ecobuild’s conference programme and to book a free ticket to the three-day event visit www.ecobuild.co.uk.