November Events
Renewable energy masterclass: The Merton Rule
The Merton Rule has shaken up the planning and development landscape in such a way as to force a range of industries and professions to work together. This comprehensive masterclass will help equip planning professionals with some of the essential skills and knowledge required for the coming climate change planning era.
17 November 2010
1 Day
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GBP 569 + VAT
London
09.00-09.30
16.15
35875
Why you should attend this masterclass
The Code for Sustainable Homes will come into force in the next few years and by 2016 the Government will expect all development to be zero-carbon. Renewable policies like the Merton Rule is driving innovation and creating a valuable knowledge base needed to achieve these ambitions. But things will not stop at zerocarbon development. The advent of new technologies and inexorable rise of climate change in the collective consciousness will drive the agenda even harder. The Merton Rule has shaken up the planning and development landscape in such a way as to force a range of industries and professions to work together. This comprehensive masterclass will help equip planning professionals with some of the essential skills and knowledge required for the coming climate change planning era.
Who should attend?
- Policy and development management planners
- Heads of service (DC, BC and Policy)
- Private consultancy planners
- Local, regional and national energy policy officers
- Heads of environment, development planning and energy
- Borough energy and climate change officers
- Environmental and energy consultants
Benefits of attending
This masterclass will help you:
1. Have sufficient understanding of new and existing policies
2. Learn the day-to-day implementation process
3. Determine CO2 baselines and assess proposals
4. Understand the technologies and systems
5. Look at peripheral planning issues
6. Understand how to negotiate with developers
7. Examine case studies
8. Map and monitor developments to confirm compliance
9. Plan for a decentralised energy future
Masterclass programme
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Background Policy background and history of renewable policies
10.00 Code for Sustainable Homes and BREEAM
- Overview
10.30 Development control implementation
- What planners need to know – but keeping it simple
- Implementation process and protocols
- Determining baselines
- Assessing application proposals Enforcement conditions
11.30 Coffee
11.45 Renewable and low carbon energy
- Technologies basics – what you need to know to get by on a day-to-day basis
- Combined heat and power, and district heat and power
- Energy from waste
- Future systems and applications
12.30 Case studies workshop part 1
- Delegates are presented with a range of case study scenarios which they then consider and discuss over lunch
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Case studies workshop part 2
- Delegates are taken through case studies in more detail – and then have to try and work out what energy solutions were finally used
3.15 Tea
3.30 Monitoring and compliance
- Online Birth Certificates for buildings
- Keeping track of what renewables have been installed
- Logging energy and sustainability DPD/ SPD implementation
- Automated renewable energy monitoring to confirm compliance
- Annual Monitoring Report
- Tracking borough energy and CO2 targets
3.45 Wider perspective and vision on planning and climate change
- Municipal CO2 strategies in Community Plans
- Collective knowledge transfer
- Economics and opportunities
- Planning for a decentralised energy future
4.00 Questions and close
Trainer
Until June 2008 Adrian Hewitt had responsibility for developing and implementing climate change policies at Merton – most notably the Merton Rule which won the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Silver Jubilee Cup in 2006. He is now Strategy and Development Director at Energence Ltd, a company that monitors renewable energy for boroughs. He has given talks on planning and lowcarbon energy strategies at many institutes and universities including: RIBA, CIBSE, MIT,
WPI, and TERI, and at conferences in London, Edinburgh, Vancouver, Prague, Rome, Madrid, Venice, Lisbon, Stockholm and Freiburg. He is also an MSc lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development at Oxford University, and teaches renewable energy Masterclasses for RTPI Conferences. He is a member of the Town and Country Planning Association Policy Council, the National Physical Laboratory’s Energy Network, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council “Carbon Vision” program. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2007, and in May 2008 won the Heating & Ventilation Contractor Association’s Gold Award.
Quotes from previous delegates
'Exceeded my expectations. A friendly and informative speaker' (Katherine Cooke, Assistant Planner, RPS Group)
CPD requirements
This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requriements
In-house training
In-house training can be presented exclusively for your organisation on any subject in the planning and development field, inclusiding management skills. Training is individually tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
To discuss your requirements please contact Sarah Miller on 020 7960 5692 or e-mail sarah.miller@rtpiconferences.co.uk
The Renewable Energy Centre
For further information about Renewable Energy please visit www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
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