Future Plymouth 2030

Wednesday 18 November onwards

The Future Plymouth 2030 webinar series intend to discuss collaborative journeys required to achieve reduced carbon development, presenting some of the tools necessary to realise a sustainable city and help to define a better path for a viable future for Plymouth.

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Upcoming webinars in the series:

#2 Plymouth & South West Climate Issues   —   Register to attend here

Wednesday 18 November – 16.00 – 18.00

Professor Iain Stewart (of BBC fame), Director of the Sustainability Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth, and Paul Barnard, Service Director for Strategic Planning & Infrastructure for Plymouth City Council, ‘set the scene’ of the Climate Emergency, the situation in Plymouth and the wider South West regarding effects of climate change on us, and the City’s annual Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP). Hamish Hall, WSP’s Head of Water team in the UK will explain how we are increasingly having to design with flooding and rising sea levels in mind with examples in the SW

#3 Embodied Energy and Whole Life Carbon   —  Register to attend here

Wednesday 2 December – 16.00 – 18.00

Industry expert and architect Simon Sturgis demystifies operational carbon emissions and embodied carbon, and explains the importance of the calculation of both to provide detailed Whole Life Carbon analysis to inform design decisions. Engineers support and provide examples of how this can be used to target low carbon designs.

 

#4 Standards for Better Performing Buildings  —  Register to attend here

Wednesday 16 December – 16.00 – 18.00

Zero Carbon, Net Zero and Passivhaus are all standards/targets that designers can strive to achieve, some more stringently measured than others. Architects, engineers and contractors give us the benefit of their experience and expertise, with the first Passivhaus leisure centre in the world currently under construction, just up the road in Exeter.