{"id":2404,"date":"2011-02-23T17:55:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2011-02-23T17:55:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:55:20","slug":"cibse-refurbish-1-building-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"CIBSE: Refurbish 1 building a minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">An average of one building every minute will need to be refurbished between now and 2050 to meet the national targets for carbon emissions reduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s CIBSE national conference, to be held on April 7 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden, will focus on the refurbishment challenge being faced by the building services industry.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing the UK&#8217;s carbon emissions to meet government targets of an 80% reduction by 2050 will require an enormous effort, including tackling the energy efficiency of the UK&#8217;s existing building stock. There are some 26 million homes and about 2 million commercial and non-domestic premises that need to be refurbished by 2050.With around 21 million minutes between now and 2050, we need to refurbish one building a minute on average over the next 40 years, even if we start today.<\/p>\n<p>Hywel Davies, CIBSE&#8217;s technical director, said: &#8220;The CIBSE national conference will explore how this challenging target can be achieved and how the building services industry can provide the knowledge and skills necessary to make it possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conference will feature presentations from a wide range of speakers with sessions including the value proposition for clients needed to win refurbishment tenders, how to access the practical information needed to achieve low-carbon refurbishment, and cost planning for refurbishment projects.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a panel discussion looking at &#8216;Knock it down and start again&#8217; where a developer, a building services engineer, an architect and an energy expert will debate what is the right course of action to achieve the best result for the client and the country. Real-life case studies will be used to take a practical look at refurbishment projects, highlighting success stories but also warning about the possible pitfalls<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cibsetraining.co.uk\/conferences\" target=\"_blank\">www.cibsetraining.co.uk\/conferences<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An average of one building every minute will need to be refurbished between now and 2050 to meet the national targets for carbon emissions reduction. This year&#8217;s CIBSE national conference, to be held on April 7 at the Grand Connaught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}