AIA UK Sustainability Series - Ultra-Sustainable Retrofitting: The Entopia Building, Cambridge

Our upcoming sustainability talk takes us inside the remaking of The Entopia Building - join us!

When: Thursday 21 September 2023 @ 12:30 (UK time)
Where: Online
CES Credits -  Estimated 1.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members

Speakers

Wendy Bishop, MA BArch, Associate, Architype

Peter Kelly BSc (Hons), MSc, CIEMA, Director for Sustainable Operations, ISG

Description

Setting new global standards in retrofit, Entopia is an internationally leading, fabric first, sustainable retrofit of a 1930s, five-storey concrete frame structure with basement, located in a local conservation area in the historic Cambridge city centre. Wendy Bishop, the principal architect and Peter Kelly, the sustainability lead for the main contractor ISG, will take you through the story of how Entopia came into being from the early concept stages right through to the on-going post occupancy evaluation.

Speaker Bios

Wendy Bishop is an architect and Associate at Architype, where she has worked since 2001. As well as leading on the exemplar retrofit for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, she was project lead for the UK’s largest Passivhaus school, Harris Academy Sutton, and has been developing the embodied carbon element of the practice’s cost, carbon and energy tool, ECCOlab.

Peter Kelly has worked in the construction sector for almost 20 years and is the Director for Sustainable Operations at ISG Ltd. Peter is using his expertise in sustainability strategy formulation, measurement and delivery along with specialist knowledge of circular economy principles in order to strengthen the company’s credentials in pursuing a resource efficient, low carbon future.