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SUMMARY:GreenBRIDGE Presents Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Heritage and Pla
 nning - Oliver Smith\, Director\, 5th Studio
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CONTACT:Aaron Gillich
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\n\nOliver Smith\, Director\, 5th Studio\n\nKayla Fri
 edman\, Centre for Sustainable Development\, University of Cambridge\n\nFu
 rther Speakers TBC\n\nAbstract:\n\nOn 7 February\, the Secretary of State 
 - through the National Planning Casework Unit - endorsed 5th Studio propos
 als for the sustainable refurbishment of the Grade I Listed buildings at N
 ew Court\, Trinity College\, Cambridge. This landmark consent represents t
 he end of three years of close work with the heritage agencies that have a
 rrived at an integrated package of passive and active measures that reduce
  the energy use of the existing building by c.75% and the carbon emissions
  by 88%. The proposals involve thermal upgrade of the existing fabric (ins
 ulated wall lining and double-glazing in the existing windows) that had pr
 eviously been thought unachievable - or unacceptable - without significant
  risk to either the character or the fabrci of the historic building. More
  active measures include the integration of MVHR system and PV and GSHP in
 stallations. In a brief presentation\, Oliver Smith will outline the 5th S
 tudio methodology for working with the heritage policies and agencies\, th
 e process of monitoring\, modelling and analysis that allowed the risks to
  be identified and mitigated.\n\n\nKayla Friedman will be presenting the c
 hallenges and opportunities of an energy efficient retrofit project of a G
 rade II listed building in Westminster being undertaken by Grosvenor. The 
 building has been designed to reach an 80% carbon emissions saving. Howeve
 r\, some of these improvements have implications for heritage features. Th
 e presentation will include the brief and the design approach\, some of th
 e key energy saving elements of the proposal\, and the main planning objec
 tions based around heritage. The project highlights some fundamental confl
 icts about what various actors in the industry believe conservation is abo
 ut\, and what we should be doing about the energy efficiency of our older 
 building stock.\n\nOliver Smith\, 5th Studio\n\n\nOliver Smith is one of t
 he directors of 5th Studio and combines practice with studio teaching at t
 he University of Cambridge School of Architecture - focussing on attitudes
  to materiality and construction. He has extended this research through th
 e practice's work in developing a critical approach to sustainable constru
 ction and in particular to adaptation of existing fabric.\n\nKayla Friedma
 n\, University of Cambridge\n\n\nKayla Friedman (BSc MArch (Dist) MUD (Dis
 t) AIA) is a licensed New York State Architect. She is a graduate of Washi
 ngton University in St. Louis and the University of Virginia. Kayla joined
  the Centre in January 2010 as part of the EPSRC and Grosvenor funded Ener
 gy Efficiency in the Built Environment Research Programme
LOCATION:CRASSH\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DP
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