HEDQF Annual Conference 2022 / Cynhadledd Flynyddol HEDQF 2022

This year’s Annual Conference will be held at Cardiff University which has recently undertaken an ambitious and transformative programme involving £600 million estate investment to provide it with the facilities for the 21st century. The conference programme will include visits to four of the new buildings on the afternoon of the first day, plus a visit to the newly-refurbished Bute Building and the Degree Show of the School of Architecture in the evening.

The theme of the conference aims to be forward looking and, in doing so, it will consider the growing focus on reuse of existing buildings and also on how data and new technology could support decision-making in creating a smart campus.

Cost: £225 Members/All HEI’s, £295 Non-members

THE PROGRAMME (subject to amendment)

Thursday 14th July

From 13:00

Tea/coffee on arrival in the new Centre for Student Life

13:25

Move to the Stanley Thomas Lecture Theatre

13:30

Welcome and introduction to the university’s impressive investment and the buildings to be visited by Dev Biddlecome, Director of Estates and Campus Facilities at Cardiff University, followed by an overview of the buildings by the university client leads for the buildings and visits to the Centre for Student Life (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios), Abacws (Stride Treglown with Adjaye Associates) sbarc/spark (Hawkins Brown) and the Translational Research Hub (HOK).

From 17:30

A drinks reception will be held in the Bute Building from 5.30pm, with an overview of the Welsh School of Architecture and a visit to the recently refurbished Bute Building (BDP Architects), home of the School of Architecture, and to the Degree Show.

Friday 15th July

09:30

Registration & tea/coffee

10:00

Welcome and Introduction – Dr Ghazwa Alwani-Starr, QMUL, HEDQF Chair

10:05

Session 1: Welcome to Cardiff University, its future priorities in a post-covid world, and a Welsh perspective: The Wellbeing and Future Generations Act and its impact on campus priorities and design, with presentations by Professor Damian Walford Davies, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Cardiff University and Professor Kevin Morgan, Professor of Governance and Development at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University

11.00

Session 2: Designing for the new world 1: Sustainability – environmental, economic and societal: Zero Carbon, Community, Research, Enterprise and Innovation, including a presentation on the design of the new UCL PEARL building in Dagenham (Penoyre & Prasad), linking to Session 7 in the afternoon, and the Edinburgh Futures Institute at Quartermile for the University of Edinburgh (Bennetts Associates).

12.00

Session 3: Debate with interactive questions from delegates: ‘Are new buildings dead?’, including contributions from Will Hurst of the Architects’ Journal and Gerry O’Brien from AKT II.

12.40

Lunch

13.40

Session 4: Update on HEDQF Research

14.00

Session 5: The HEDQF Student Prize, which this year is at the Welsh School of Architecture

14.30

Tea/Coffee

14.50

Session 6: Designing for the New World 2: Reuse, Retrofit and Refurbishment: Creating 21st century environments within existing buildings. An interactive session, including presentations on the University of Sheffield’s Engineering Heartspace (Bond Bryan Architects) and the University of Cambridge’s New Eutopia Building housing the University’s Institute of Sustainability Leadership (Architype).

15.50

Session 7: Designing for the New World 3: The Smart Campus – how data and intelligence could be used to shape design with contributions from Nick Tyler, Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies, which is housed in PEARL in Dagenham, and the Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering and from Chris Dymond, Academic Director of the Smart Cities Management Programme at Zigurat Global Institute of Technology.

16.30

Summing up and close – Dr Ghazwa Alwani-Starr, QMUL, HEDQF Chair

16.35

Finish

HEDQF thanks our host and sponsors

Host

Cardiff University

Primary Sponsors

Trilogy Property Limited

Supporting Sponsors

Overbury

Troup Bywaters + Anders

Procure Partnerships