Other activities
Selected presentations/industry engagement
Selected presentations/industry engagement
- Invited contributor to the Finnish Rakenustieto/Building Centre's Building Forum "Where to innovate in Construction' (short pre-recorded video), March 2019, Helsinki
- Invited plenary speaker at Queens University, Belfast (Oct 2018) – pre-recorded talk
- Invited plenary speaker 14th International Alvar Aalto Symposium, Finland, Aug 2018
- Invited speaker at DIS Copenhagen (Study Abroad inScandinavia) on sustainable architecture, April 2018
- Invited speaker at Cambridge University (IDBE programme), on 'Interdisciplinary collaboration and unintended consequences of housing retrofit', March 2018
- Invited plenary speaker at the Royal Institute of Irish Architects yearly conference in October 2017 on the challenges and the role of architects in a changing climate.
- Invited plenary speaker at the EKC (Europe-Korean Conference on Science & Technology) in Stockholm, 28th July 2017; talk: 'A new paradigm for sustainable construction: the power of evidence-based design'
- Invited plenary speaker at the SPBA/STBA Technical Conference, June 2017 (London) on floor heatloss research
- RIBA national CPD speaker, titled: Refurbishing the existing housing stock: priorities & unintended consequences, (2016) & “Sustainable design and low energy technologies: what do architects need to know?” (2014) in 14 UK locations, reaching out to ~1000 architects)
- Invited speaker at Carbon Neutral University Retrofit event, Sheffield University (Nov 9th 2016)
- University of Wollongong in Australia (2016), talk on housing retrofit challenges in the UK.
- Convener and co-chair of the ‘Retrofit in Practice: What next?‘ Workshop at the University of Newcastle as part of the AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) conference programme, 2014, Newcastle University.
- DECC/DBEIS (UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change) engagement to discuss Green Deal (2013), PhD research (Sept 2013, 2015, 2016) and to contribute with other industry stakeholders to long-term UK government carbon reduction targets (2014) and Sustainable Construction Training Guide (2017)
- Invited talks at Indonesia Green Building Council, Public Works (Yogyakarta), Islamic University Indonesia & Universitas Gadjah Mada (Yogyakarta)(2014).
- One of four organisers of the first LoLo CDT PhD research conference (Nov 2013), UCL
- Organiser of several technical Passivhaus Trust workshops and conferences in London. Quality control of content and speaker liaison; abstract review, 2010-2012
