Event Description

The release of the LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide in January and the UK Green Building Council targets for Commercial Offices in April have put Net Zero Carbon front of place in commercial office design. But how do we actually go about delivering Net Zero Carbon commercial office buildings?

Join us as CIBSE’s Young Energy Performance Group discuss how to achieve Net Zero Carbon in design, operation, and retrofit of commercial assets.

Jennifer Elias, Senior Engineer at Cundall, will provide an overview of the Commercial energy use intensity targets within the LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide. She will discuss in detail the modelling work designed to support the commercial buildings Net Zero Carbon pathway within the Climate Emergency Design Guide and the importance of using data driven design and modelling techniques in developing realistic net zero energy use targets for commercial buildings.

Khasha Mohammadian, Senior Energy Performance Consultant at Carbon Intelligence, will discuss the challenges and opportunities with existing commercial office buildings. Through looking at data from operational buildings he will illustrate the importance of Net Zero retrofit within the sector.

Oliver Lockhart, Senior Performance Engineer at Hoare Lea, will discuss the role of data in achieving Net Zero Carbon and why it is so important that you gather the information that you are going to need. He will also discuss how this information forms an integral part of the feedback loop to ensure we are continually designing better buildings.