Day One: Launch of #RSUDC21
1 February 2021
This interactive webinar series brings together leaders from the construction industry, educators and professionals, and Sunderland City Council, to disseminate their knowledge and up skill Built Environment students at UK Universities.
Day Two: The Climate Challenge
2 February 2021
Urgent action is needed to overcome ‘The Climate Challenge’. In this webinar, hear from leading climate experts on the path to Net Zero and Carbon Neutral Homes, the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge, LETI route maps, and operational and embodied carbon basics.
Day Three: Sustainable Timber and Offsite Construction
3 February 2021
Learn about how timber can be put to use by built environment professionals as a low carbon and sustainable material, including discussions on timber origin, certification, structural timber (solid and engineered) and its use in offsite manufacture.
Day Four: Counting Carbon
4 February 2021
Sustainability can no longer be discussed in qualitative terms, built environment professionals must be climate literate. This session explores embodied carbon, Lifecycle Assessments (LCA’s) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD’s), as well as Carbon Calculators.
Day Six: Positive+ Home and Forever Home
10 February 2021
Hear about the innovative, low-carbon designs for of the teams behind the Homes of 2030 shortlisted teams behind the Postive+House and the Forever Home, both on the forefront of design.
Day Seven: Larch Corner, Akerman Road and Geanaisean
11 February 2021
Timber is put to use in this webinar where the teams behind Larch Corner, Akerman Road, and Geanaisean talk through how they designed real homes which were beautiful, efficient, and low-carbon.
Day Eight: Fabric First
16 February 2021
Fabric First is a proven design approach which seeks to harness materials, frame, and structure to create low energy, low-carbon, efficient and sustainable buildings. Hear from experts using this approach right now.
Day Nine: Health and Wellbeing
17 February 2021
Learn about the beneficial properties of timber in the home, and how using natural materials and planting in a scheme can affect our health, air quality, sound, and thermal qualities of where we live, as well as our sense of community and well-being.
Day Ten: Health Challenges
18 February 2021
Timber is the best low-carbon, sustainable, renewable construction material we can build with to achieve net zero, and an essential part of a modern design pallette. To use wood wisely, you need to know how to specify and detail timber correctly.
Day Eleven: Structural Engineering
23 February 2021
This webinar explores engineering with timber, including mass timber such as CLT, and alternatives to concrete foundations, both of which are essential knowledge for any built environment professional who wants to minimise their carbon impact.
Day Twelve: Procurement, Costing, and Placemaking
24 February 2021
It’s not enough just to talk about building low carbon, we need to actually do it. This webinar focuses on some of the most important parts of turning designs into reality – procurement, costing and placemaking – with experts behind the UKs most innovative timber buildings.
Day Thirteen: Future Homes
25 February 2021
The final webinar of the series is a chance to be inspired by award winning architects and designers, including David Birbeck, the student winners of Homes of 2030, and to hear tips from the organisers of the #RSUDC21 competition.