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Webinar: Can modelling be used to educate architects?

Speaker Bio

David Coley is Professor of Zero Carbon Design in the Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. His research focuses on minimising the energy use of buildings through a process of physical design and an understanding of occupant behaviour. He was one of the team that built the UK’s first zero-carbon Passivhaus school. In addition, he is interested in the future of weather in a warming world and the implications for building design and for occupants.

David Coley received a BSc in Physics in 1985 and a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics in 1989. Alongside academic papers and reports for Government, David has written books on energy and climate change, genetic algorithms and rock climbing. He was also a founding member of a London-based hedge fund.

About the topic:

For David, one big question is, given that Passivhaus and other low energy possibilities exist, why do new buildings tend to use just as much energy as old ones? Although many seem able to list possibilities, this is very different to evidence. Particularly when we try to put numbers to the fraction each possibly plays, from poor contracts, lack of ambition to poor engineering. One of the lessons from the Passivhaus movement is that for a low energy design, one needs to start in the right place on day one. This indicates that the architect and the client need to rapidly agree on a evidence-based form, fabric and philosophy that will several years later lead to a near energy neutral building.

David will suggest that a correctly formatted simple numeric model might be able to play a role in this. He believes that key elements of such a model might be

  1. It needs to focus not just of the building in question, but to leave those involved in a better place for the next building. In short, tools need to be pedagogical, with the tool steering the team to an early stage low energy design and providing a CPD service: In essence, after using the tool, a user should score more highly in an imaginary low energy design exam.
  2. If the aim is to influence people, including those in the global south, at the earliest point in their career any tool needs to be used during architectural education and hence probably free.

David will discuss an attempt to develop such a tool – Zebra.

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