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Low Carbon Innovation in the Built Environment
Market Opportunities in a Sustainable Future for Wales

Tuesday, 18th November 2008
Registration from 5.30 pm
Presentation begins at 6 pm


Location:
Wales Millennium Centre - Map & Parking Details
Please note the earlier Registration and Start Times for this event and that the venue is the WMC in Bute Place, Cardiff Bay

Speaker:
Professor Phil Jones
Low Carbon Research Institute
Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

Case Study:
Peter Robson
Partner, Building Energy Partnership

Huw Jenkins
Commercial Manager, Centre for Research in the Built Environment Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

Topics:

  • The built environment as key to sustainability
  • Explore the business challenges and opportunities arising from the climate change agenda: regulation changes, risk to reputation and high energy costs
  • How can industry respond to government targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions?
  • How can we take sustainability from policy to everyday practice?
  • How can industry and the university partner to deliver change?
  • Learn how one small Cardiff company is innovatively exploiting new market opportunities
  • Discover how they embraced a new competitive challenge in sustainability and made an international impact

Stay with us after the presentation for the opportunity to network over a light supper and view the Welsh School of Architecture's Sustainability in the Built Environment exhibition at the WMC

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