Think 08: sustainability in the built environment

Date: 07/05/2008
End Date: 08/05/2008

Speakers:

Keynote presentations and speakers including:

Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment
Sir Howard Bernstein, Manchester City Council
Che Wall, Lincolne Scott
Herbery Girardet, World Future Council Initiative
Dermot Finch, Director, Centre for Cities 

View the full list of speakers here 

Excel London

Taking place over two days, the Think conference will have three streams looking at sustainability in practice:

  • Property – seeking value in sustainability

  • Regeneration – planning sustainable places and communities

  • Construction – zero carbon: debating it, doing it

Think is an exhibition and conference about sustainability in the built environment. It tackles the issue at a strategic level across the value chain in the public, private and third sectors.

The built environment accounts for about 50% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions and it’s increasingly clear that we have to change the way we design, construct and use buildings – and do so fast. This means rethinking the whole process and taking a fresh look at what we mean by, and how we achieve, a sustainable built environment – from specifying low energy lighting to creating places where people really want to live and work.

Dermot Finch will be speaking on the first day of the conference and Dr Malcolm Cooper on the second.

For further details visit www.think08.co.uk/conference

 

 

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