Case Study: Creating a low-carbon community

DESCRIPTION

This workshop will look at the planned low carbon community at Hadlow College.

STRUCTURE

Dr Howard Lee, Sustainability Coordinator at Hadlow College will examine the Hadlow Project project in detail. The discussion will focus on the successes, failures and lessons learned that may be applicable in the South East.

Topics covered will include:

• Origins of the projects - background and key drivers
• Successes and failures
• How suppliers (house-builders, architects etc.) need to change their services to help deliver a low carbon South East (built environment), and how these changes will give them competitive advantage
• Future business opportunities for developers and the construction industry from the perspective of people planning low carbon communities.
• Changing existing communities vs. building from scratch
• Planned 'from above' vs. organically growing 'from below'
• Social impacts of the low carbon developments
• How residents and local communities are responding to these developments

This will be followed by a open discussion.

SPEAKER

Dr. Howard Lee
Sustainability Coordinator, Hadlow College

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