Get Sust! Issue 37

 

Delivering whole building low energy performance - 10-11 July

The AECB (formerly known as the Association for Environment Conscious Building) is running a training course on designing low-energy, low-carbon buildings, based around its CarbonLite programme.

The two-day course at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, will use short presentations, interactive discussion and practical activities to explain the range of methodologies and design elements required to deliver whole building low energy performance. Topics for discussion range from “What is a low energy building?” to post-occupancy energy measurement.

Funded by the Carbon Trust, the CarbonLite programme proposes three steps to improved building energy performance, and these correspond to the higher levels of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The AECB says that houses built to CarbonLite standards could cut energy use by between 70-95% compared to the UK average.

 

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To book contact sally[at]aecb.net or visit www.carbonlite.org.uk/carbonlite/training.php

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For more on CarbonLite, see www.get-sust.com/newsletters/issue35/35_feature.html