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Sep
17
6:00 PM18:00

Edge Debate #93 Housing Fit for Purpose? Putting POE into practice

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The UK Committee for Climate Change report UK Housing Fit for the Future? (2019) highlights the need for greater levels of inspection and stricter enforcement of building standards, alongside demands that ‘as-built’ performance of UK homes must be better monitored. Without these measures (and stricter penalties for non-compliance), the 1.5 new homes planned for the next few years and the 29 million homes to be retrofitted will not perform as intended.

The RIBA has recently recommended that all member practices should offer to carry out post-occupancy evaluation (POE) as part of their standard service to clients. This could have major consequences for the housing industry and the built environment project teams associated with it. A new sustainability overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work is also in development that will include, for the first time, a POE contractual procedure.

Several urgent questions arise as POE becomes mainstream:

How should built-environment professionals and policy-makers develop and deliver housing POE as an in-built part of housing procurement?Is it affordable? Who should pay for POE – the client or the design team?What are the key procedures that need to be put in place and should they be regulated?Should the acquisition of appropriate skills to undertake POE be taught in validated programmes in Higher Education or only as professional CPD?What must be done to ensure that POE becomes routine?Do Assured Performance schemes like EnergieSprong make POE obsolete?In the current climate emergency, POE offers the housing industry a real opportunity to reduce carbon emissions from housing - for good.

This debate will mark the launch of a major new book on POE implementation, Housing Fit for Purpose: performance, feedback and learning by Fionn Stevenson. Copies will be available for purchase.

Chair:

Andy von Bradsky, Head of Architecture, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

Speakers:

  • Fionn Stevenson, The University of Sheffield and author of Housing Fit for Purpose: performance, feedback and learning (2019)

  • Claire Murray, Head of Sustainability, Levitt Bernstein - Architect

  • Katie Clemence, Max Fordhams, Chair of CIBSE Technology Committee - Engineer

  • Oliver Novakovic, Technical and Innovation Director, Barratt Developments PLC - Housing Developer

  • Emyr Poole, Homes England, Senior Projects Manager, Planning, Enabling and Development team - Government Policy Adviser

Venue: FCBStudios, 20 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4RG
Timing: Tuesday 17th September 2019, Debate 6.00 (for 6.30) – 8.30 pm
Drinks and networking - until 9.00 pm

This event is by invitation only. Please come and contribute to the discussion.
To attend please register by each attendee’s name on Eventbrite here

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Feb
3
6:00 PM18:00

Edge Debate #71 Can Decentralisation Solve the Housing Crisis?

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The housing crisis is squeezing young adults out of London. Yet many still see London as the only UK city that offers the career they want. What can be done to make other UK cities more attractive to mobile young talent? Four speakers present their approaches.

The UK is unique in that its centres of political, economic and cultural power are all located in one city. Political power is concentrated in central government in the UK to a degree not seen in comparable countries. To address this, think tank IPPR has called for a ‘Decentralisation Decade;’ a political project to push power out from Whitehall.

Some think this does not go far enough. Architect and researcher James Dunnett is proposing to move Parliament and Central Government out of London completely. Relocating the machinery of government to another UK city would dramatically alter the economic geography of the country.

If the crisis is a particular issue in the southeast, can we solve it by supporting growth in other UK cities? John Sampson from URBED will discuss how the ideas from their Wolfson Prize-winning entry ‘Uxcester’ are being applied to support significant growth of a regional city in the UK.

Accepting that London is likely to remain the centre of economic and cultural activity in the country, local solutions to London’s unique challenges are still required. Kathryn Firth, former Chief of Design at the London Legacy Development Corporation will discuss approaches to alleviating the crisis in London.

Chair:
Charlotte Alldritt
Director of Public Services and Communities, RSA
Previously Secretary to the RSA City Growth Commission

Speakers:
Luke Raikes, IPPR North
James Dunnett, James Dunnett Architects
John Sampson, URBED
Kathryn Firth, Urban Designer and Masterplanner

Venue: Ramboll, 240 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NW

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Edge debate 71 Decentralisation debate report

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Debate report on Designing Buildings Wiki

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