AIA UK Sustainability Series - Why do architects struggle to design low energy buildings or refugee shelters?

Join AIA UK for the latest lunchtime talk in our Sustainability Series, with David Coley!

When: Wednesday 6 March 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
Where: Online
CES Credits - Estimated 1.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members

Speaker

David Coley is Professor of Zero Carbon Design, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath

Description

Prof Coley will take an honest look into why things don’t seem to turn out the way architects want them to, be it the take up of a new refugee shelter design, or a low energy building. He will then hint at a possible solution: the art of gentle calculation.

Speaker Bio

David Coley is Professor of Zero Carbon Design at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, UK. He trained as a theoretical physicist before turning to the built environment. He has conducted research on buildings for many decades, with over 150 papers published in international journals. His teaching and consultancy activities revolve around building physics, energy and climate change. As part of this he got involved in the design of unconditioned buildings and this led to the design of the UK’s first zero carbon school. Then to the design of unconditioned refugee accommodation around the world. As part of this, he was leader of the Healthy Housing for the Displaced project funded by EPSRC. Of late he has been thinking about why modern buildings seem to use the same amount of energy as old ones, and how simple tools for professionals and students might help get a design off to a low energy start and help keep it there.