North East Sustainability Mastermind

Join our Sustainability Forum on 27 July for our next ‘Sustainability Mastermind’ session.

Northern Roots is creating the UK’s largest urban farm and eco-park on 160-acres of green space in the heart of Oldham, Greater Manchester. Developed for and with local communities, the vision for Northern Roots is to deliver sustainable economic, social and environmental benefits. JDDK Architects have been working with the community to develop designs for a Visitor Centre and Learning Centre aiming to achieve RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge targets. Our presentation will focus on the Visitor Centre design with the use of straw bales, rammed earth, timber frame and sedum roofs and will focus on the embodied carbon assessment utilising the OneClickLCA Software.

Speakers

Alison Thornton-Sykes is Principal Architect at JDDK Architects and Project Architect for Northern Roots leading the community consultation/ design process.

Oliver Hopwood is an Architect at JDDK. On the Northern Roots project, he has worked mainly on developing the design of the Visitor Centre building from the first concept sketches to the detailed digital model. He is at the head of JDDK’s embodied carbon learning curve.

There are five ways you can benefit from the Sustainability Mastermind:

1) COMMUNITY: Through the Sustainability Mastermind you get the opportunity to be a part of a community with shared goals. To this end you’ll have the chance to create new relationships and new friendships. Who knows where that can lead…

2) CHALLENGE: Together we engage head on with the RIBA 2030 Challenge. We discuss how it can be applied to your project – whether or not you expect to address all criteria – and we help each other prepare for the RIBA Awards by addressing technical queries or agreeing common understandings.

3) LEARNING: We all start somewhere so the Sustainability Mastermind recognises that not everyone has a project they want to share, or the expertise to contribute. If you want to sit on the side-lines soaking up all the good ideas and developing new insights that you can apply in your work the next day then that’s perfectly fine. The most important thing is that you are interested, stimulated and willing to engage.

4) DEVELOPMENT: If you are already an expert in a specific field of sustainable design then you’ll be all too aware that you can’t master them all. The Sustainability Mastermind helps you fill the gaps by bolster those underdeveloped areas.

5) PRACTICE: With your practice’s blessing you bring a project, part of a project, or even just a construction detail, to the mastermind. You set out the context, where you are right now and where you’d like to get to. No scheme is too big, and no detail is too small – the mastermind is here to help.

These sessions will be held under the Chatham House rules. Participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, or project may be revealed. This way everyone taking part can learn without risk. The more you contribute the more you’ll get out of the experience.

If you have a project in mind for peer-review at this session then please get in touch with us in advance.

Mark Siddall - mark@leap4.it

Adam Vaughan - adamv@jddk.co.uk

As an inter-architect and inter-practice event the Sustainability Mastermind is a truly unique experience. We look forward to seeing you.

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