Our lunchtime webinars for spring 2024 are now open for booking, with each scheduled to take place from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm on the dates shown. These webinars are free for all CAB members! Just click on the relevant button below to book your free place and to receive joining instructions.
There will be time for Q&A at the end of each session. With building safety and security as well as environmental topics, we hope there is something here to get your teeth into and we look forward to you joining us online!
14th May 2024 – Accelerating Material Reuse in Construction
Find out about the vision for this exciting project, enabling the acceleration of material re-use in construction, and advocating deconstruction of existing buildings instead of demolition, allowing the integration of re-used material into the supply chain so that 100% of all newly designed buildings are Net Zero carbon by 2030.
The Materials Passports policy paper is a main output from this project. This paper provides guidance on how to implement materials passports and accelerate material reuse in construction. The purpose of this paper is to enable the widespread adoption of materials passports to support a circular economy. This policy paper provides a suite of guidance and templates to facilitate the immediate and comprehensive adoption of materials passporting across architecture, engineering and construction industries.
Main speaker:
Ana Rute Costa, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Lancaster University. Ana is an academic, chartered architect and certified Passivhaus Designer, fostering the creation of dynamic links and knowledge exchange between academia and industry. Her research focuses on accelerating material reuse in construction through materials passports, reducing whole life carbon and enabling a circular economy.
16th May 2024 – The Role of Construction Products in Building Safety
This is your opportunity to hear from and engage directly with the Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS), the UK’s regulator for construction products, as they explore their perspectives on compliance of construction products, post-Building Safety Act 2022. In this webinar, you will hear about the progress being made and the challenges ahead.
Chaired by Justin Furness, Council for Aluminium in Building, there will also be an opportunity to ask our speaker your questions.
Main speaker:
Krish Govinden, Operational Policy Manager (Construction Products), Office for Product Safety and Standards.
Krish has experience of product compliance, certification and standardisation and currently works within the Sector Compliance team at OPSS responsible for developing intervention strategies for construction products. He is leading the intervention approach for fire doors and is collaborating with industry and regulators to simplify and improve the current regulatory landscape in this area. Krish was the UK representative and technical expert for numerous international lighting committees (CEN, CENELEC, ISO and IEC). He was also the Technical Manager and Secretary for the Lighting Industry Association (LIA) committees for Emergency Lighting, Lighting Applications and Luminaires, and Connected Lighting. He was the Technical and Operations Manager of the LIA Laboratory, which is one of largest independent test and certification laboratory in Europe dedicated to lighting. He was responsible for maintaining the ISO 17025 and ISO 17065 UKAS accreditations for the laboratory and he also qualified as an ISO 9001 Lead Auditor in 2015.
23 May 2024 – How much scrap sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminium economy?
An improvement in the recycling system of the aluminium industry must be made to avoid the downcycling dynamic, reduce environmental impacts, and move towards a circular economy. In this webinar we aim to evaluate the potential environmental benefits of improving sorting efforts by combining operations research, prospective material flow analysis, and life cycle assessment. Our optimisation model defines how to minimise climate change impacts according to different sorting efforts, dismantling conditions, and collection rates. The results show that optimal sorting could reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by 30% and help determine where to prioritize closed-loop recycling.
Main speaker:
Julien Pedneault, Associé de recherche, CIRAIG, Polytechnique Montréal. Julien graduated from École Polytechnique de Montréal with a PhD in industrial engineering. His thesis was entitled: ‘Towards a low-carbon, circular future: prospective modelling and optimization of aluminium impacts and flows’. Since 2022, he has been working as a research associate at The International Reference Center for Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Transition (CIRAIG), the research group where he also studied. CIRAIG is a center of expertise on the development and implementation of life cycle and sustainability metrics. Through its cutting-edge research, expert services, and training program, the CIRAIG develops the knowledge and tools necessary for a transition to a sustainable society.
30 May 2024 – Get ready for CBAM!
CBAM stands for “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism” and while the EU launched a “transitional” phase for CBAM in 2023 for the EU (including aluminium), with a view to fully implementing the scheme across the EU in 2026, the UK launched its consultation for a UK CBAM in March 2024. The plan is for CBAM to be implemented from January 2027 in the UK across several sectors, including aluminium and glass.
CBAM is designed to reduce the risk of “carbon leakage”, whereby a carbon price is placed on imported goods so that the UK’s efforts to decarbonize the sector is not compromised by imports that could undermine UK production.
We will look at the implications of CBAM to our members, with the UK CBAM consultation closing on 13 June 2024.
Main speaker:
Nick Ogilvie, Customer Success Manager, CarbonChain. Nick is a Customer Success Manager at CarbonChain, a provider of carbon accounting software that maps supply chain activity. Nick is a CBAM specialist, combining a technical engineering background in clean energy supply chains alongside financial and sustainability audit roles at PwC. Nick is passionate about working with companies enabling impact at scale.
6 June 2024 – The Role of STS 202 in Burglar Resistance Testing & Certification for CERTISECURE approval
This webinar provides you with an introduction to Warringtonfire’s Security Technical Schedule (STS) 202, with a comparison to other security tests on the market such as PAS 24 and EN 1627, and will show how it can be used to prove performance as per the requirements of Part Q of the Building Regulations. We will also look at the testing process, and how performance of a product is maintained through third party product certification, factory production control visits and audit testing.
Chaired by Justin Furness, Council for Aluminium in Building, there will also be an opportunity to ask our speaker your questions.
Main speaker:
Mark West, who currently works as a Principal Certification Engineer within Warringtonfire’s technical division, with responsibility for managing security performance schemes for construction products and UKCA/CE marking of external pedestrian doorsets and building hardware. After completing a materials and mechanical engineering degree at Nottingham University, Mark joined the construction industry in 1999, initially working in the design department of an aluminium extrusion business before moving on to the R&D team of a timber door and window manufacturer, then joining Warringtonfire as laboratory manager in 2005, managing door & window test laboratories in Sheffield, Willenhall and Wednesbury, and then moving across to the technical division in 2020.