Building Acoustics Group Event
Building Acoustics Sustainably: Practical Considerations
Tuesday 18 April 2023
The Building Centre, London and on Zoom
Building Acoustics Group Hybrid Event
Building Acoustics Sustainably: Practical Considerations
Tuesday 18 April 2023
The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT and on Zoom
THE EVENT IS NOW FULL
09:30 Registration and refreshments
10:00 Introduction, James Healey, Chair Building Acoustics Group & Peninsular Acoustics
Building Acoustics and Sustainability
10:05 Building Acoustics Group white paper on building acoustics and sustainability
Ben Burgess, Buro Happold
10:35 Our influence as acoustics designers
Barry Jobling, Hoare Lea
10:50 Conflict between acoustic design for health and wellbeing and sustainability
Jack Harvie-Clark, Apex Acoustics
11:05 Refreshments
Reduce, Refurbish, Re-use and Recycle
11:30 Introduction: Setting the science. Why bother? What are the benefits?
Elina Grigoriou, Grigoriou Interiors
11:45 Acoustics for a sustainable future
Richard Grove, Inhabit
12:05 Reduce: Maximizing low-frequency isolation with the carbon cost
Ryan Arbabi, Farrat
12:25 Refurbish: Typical constraints of refurbishing existing office buildings into other uses
Bob Albon, Sandy Brown
12:45 Lunch
Reduce, Refurbish, Re-use & Recycle
13:30 Refurbish: refurbishment of existing buildings & vibration
Adam Fox, Mason UK
Re-use and recycle
Momo Hoshijima, WSP
Challenges and Opportunities
14:10 Sustainable design focused approach for acousticians
Shane Cryer, Ecophon
14:30 Challenges with product certification and sustainability credentials for small specialist suppliers
Tim Simmons, Woolly Shepherd
14:50 Refreshments
15:20 Panel Discussion - James Healey and all the speakers
15:50 Conclusion - Richard Grove, Inhabit & Sustability Working Group Chair
16:00 Tour of the Building Centre
17:00 BAG Social-Bricklayers arms, 31 Gresse Street London W1T 1QS
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