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Ventilation Series 1: Demand Controlled Ventilation (DCV)

This online session explains how to keep air inside buildings safe and healthy. It is aimed at people working in construction and building design.

Indoor air quality is often poor, which can affect health and lead to damp and mould. In this session, trainer Vince House will explain how ventilation works and the main types used today. You will learn simple ways to improve airflow and how some systems can help save energy when space and budgets are limited.

Free places for West of England residents and workers – use code RSVENT26 when booking

Time: 11am to 1pm

Retrofitting Traditional Buildings 1: Principles and Practice

Our ever-popular technical training course covering emerging research, best practice and case studies in the field of upgrading traditional and historic buildings.

Retrofitting Traditional Buildings 1: Principles and Practice (RTB 1) is split into 2 half day sessions for easier online digestion. This is still one course, and your RTB 1 booking includes access for both half days.

Part A: 9th June. 09:30 – 13:00

Part B: 16th June. 09:30 – 13:00

Retrofitting Traditional Buildings 1: Principles and Practice (Online)

Free place promo code for WECA residents and workers: RSRTB26

Addressing energy efficiency is one of the biggest challenges for older, traditionally-constructed buildings. Thermal performance and efficiency need to be improved while avoiding technical risks, retaining character and avoiding any harm to significance, regardless of conservation status. Increasingly, guidance and case studies are demonstrating how this can be done, but there is also widespread evidence highlighting the potential risks of different technical solutions.

Upgrading traditional building fabric is notoriously complex, particularly where planning restrictions apply, and a holistic understanding of buildings & building physics, upgrade measures, heritage considerations and occupant behaviour is required to ensure compatibility and appropriateness and manage technical risks.

In this technical training course, expert trainer Nicholas Heath examines current issues, solutions and emerging best practice in how to de-risk projects and achieve ‘responsible retrofit’ – sustainable, low-energy traditional buildings with retained character, minimal risk to buildings and occupants and real benefits for all. Content is in line with leading research & best practice guidance, in particular the whole-building principles of ‘context, coherence, capacity & caution’ set out in the British Standard BS 5250:2021 Management of moisture in buildings: Code of practice.

9.30am to 1pm