Whitehall policy leads who have helped shape upcoming shake-up of the Building Regulations will be speaking about major changes in 2022 for efficiency, IAQ and comfort requirements

 

Experts from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) will be joining H&V News to open its 2022 Better Buildings Summit on 29 March.

Jack Hulme, DLUHC technical policy lead, and his colleague Victoria Tink, department policy lead on Part L of the Building Regulations, will jointly host a discussion on how healthy indoor environments can be delivered alongside the decarbonisation of the UK’s buildings.  The discussion will look at how a series of planned changes over the next three years will impact both commercial and domestic buildings.

An uplift in the Building Regulations that is coming into effect in England from June will introduce wide ranging changes that will directly impact energy efficiency, ventilation and overheating-prevention in new buildings.

Mr Hulme and Ms Tink will explain the implications of the legislation for the HVAC sector. They will also take questions from our audience about the further legislative changes that will be introduced to the way the industry design’s buildings and their vital systems up to 2025.

The DLUHC session opens a full day of discussion and debate at the summit. This programme will focus on delivering a more holistic approach to ensure both new and existing buildings in the UK are more efficient, safe and comfortable for the long-term benefit of occupants and operators.

The HVAC sector will be expected to play a key role in creating buildings that can realistically improve occupant health and comfort and we will be joined by a range of experts working across building engineering, including the training and policy sides of the sector

The programme will build on H&V News’ previous summits with a panel discussion on indoor air quality and what new benchmarks may now be needed to ensure growing public concerns about air flow in buildings are being addressed.

A H&V News live event heard late last year how efforts to improve air quality within commercial, public and domestic buildings are too often undermined by limited overall knowledge about adapting different available technologies such as ventilation and air purification systems for specific properties.  March’s summit will look at how this may be changing, if at all.

Other sessions at the 2022 Better Buildings Summit will focus on how net zero targets can be achieved in the UK’s existing building stock without compromising occupant comfort and health, as well as how the value of wellness can be measured by building operators.

Fire safety commitments in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire and the subsequent public inquiry will be the subject of other important discussions at the summit, along with a panel on how best to effectively introduce more automated, data-led building systems at scale

The full summit programme and information on how to sign up for the conference can be found here.

For those wishing to the discuss the remaining sponsorship opportunities at the summit, please contact Kavita Brown, H&V News sales director at ‘[email protected]’.

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