Event details:
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Start:
2 March 2010 - 09:00 am
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End:
4 March 2010 - 05:00 pm
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Location:
London
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Venue:
Earls Court
Capita Symonds was the Gold Sponsor of
‘Cityscape’
at Ecobuild 2010.
Ecobuild is the world’s biggest event for sustainable design,
construction and the built environment. Combining an 850
exhibitor-strong product showcase with more than 100 free
conference and seminar sessions and dozens of interactive
educational attractions, Ecobuild connects formal learning with
practical experience, and with products and suppliers. Over 35,000
visitors attended Ecobuild in 2009.
Read our post-event event write-ups:
Find out more about our
innovative 'living building'
For more details about the event and Cityscape,
visit the Ecobuild
website
Watch our experts give their thoughts on sustainable design and
construction in these Ecobuild Voxpops
Conference speakers
Capita Symonds' experts spoke at a number of the
Ecobuild conference sessions - find out more
Green Room
events
This year we hosted a series of events in our 'Green Room'
to explore how our industry can provide some much needed impetus in
reviving and driving the sustainability agenda.
Good Design is Sustainable Design - Tuesday 2 March
2010, 5.45pm
Learn more about the work of our Sustainable Design Lab - a
virtual centre of excellence helping us to deliver best practice
sustainable design, and view our 'DNA of good design'
installation.
Changing the DNA of Community Regeneration - Wednesday 3
March 2010, 07.45am–09.30am.
How do you balance the need to generate economic value and
attract investment with delivering social value and sustainable
lifestyles. Our speakers share their experiences and ideas for
changing the DNA of community regeneration:
- Joe Duckworth - CEO of Newham Council
- Chris Brown - CEO of Igloo Regeneration
- Liz Kessler - Urban designer and regeneration consultant
Drinks - Wednesday 3 March 2010, 5.45pm
Join us for drinks and nibbles at the end of
another long day at the Ecobuild event.
Changing the DNA of Education Design - Thursday 4 March
2010, 07.45am–09.30am
Where should sustainable school design go next? We've invited a
panel of experts to deliver a series of short talks identifying how
they would change the DNA of Education design and why:
- Martin Hunt - Head of Built Environment at Forum of the
Future
- Alison Davies - CABE enabler and Architect
- Ida Fabrizio - who runs the schools competition for Capital
Growth
- Richard Woods - Capita Symonds' Lead Architect for The St
Francis of Assisi Academy and CABE Schools Design Panel Member
- Taariq Mauthoor - Low Carbon Building Consultant from Capita
Symonds
Join the
conversation
We set up a Twitter account to collate what people are
saying about EcoBuild 2010 - see below.
To contribute to the
conversation, include @ecobuild_tweets or the
hashtag #ecobuild in your tweet.
Sustainability at Capita
Symonds
The word Sustainability is often used as a catch all for many
diverse ideas and requirements. It can be seen as “a good thing” or
“something we have to do” without a full appreciation,
understanding or formulation of a concept to inform our actions.
This can apply to construction projects when there is a desire to
achieve BREEAM “excellent” or some other standard without
understanding the implications and alternatives.
Sustainability is often read as reducing energy usage, or
reducing reliance on carbon fuels. This is a one dimensional
reading, and is perhaps used because it is the easiest facet to
measure. Sustainability should take into account the entire
project; the impact in terms of a carbon value, a social value, and
an economic value.
We are committed to providing professional services that are
holistically sustainable. We use the widely held definition that a
sustainable proposal is one that “… meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs”.
Our sustainability policy encompasses our focus on conserving
energy, reducing construction and operational waste and maximising
the use of renewable or reusable resources. Our policy is backed up
by a strategy to achieve these aims with toolkits to assist our
design teams, clients and consultants in understanding the design
processes and ensuring that on all projects there is an appropriate
environmental brief.
Capita
Symonds is a member of the UK Green Building
Council (UK-GBC), emphasising our commitment to
sustainability in the built environment. Find out more about UK Green Building
Council.
Find out more, about our approach to
Sustainability.....
Within Capita Symonds:
And across our Architecture division:
