Climate change is regarded as one of the greatest challenges facing our society. There is a scientific consensus that the climate is changing and that we can expect further rises in sea levels, greater extremes of temperature, increased flooding, drought, and extreme weather events with implications for the way we will live in the future.

 

In this session we consider the business of designing homes and workplaces, not just for the current climate, but the one that is coming. We will look at the projections of what our future UK climate will be and explore how to approach the challenges of designing for this future climate.

 

This session is aimed at those interested in learning more about climate change and brainstorming solutions to the challenges of design in a changing environment. It will be of interest to attendees from a broad range of backgrounds including the design, sustainability, green, and manufacturing or buildings industries. 
 

Speakers contributing will include Roger Street of UK Climate Impacts Programme and Bill Gething of Architecture and Sustainability and chair of the Design for Future Climate working group. Facilitation will be carried out by the Technology Strategy Board Low Impact Building Innovation Platform team: Richard Miller, Platform Leader; and Fionnuala Costello and Neil Morgan, both Lead Technologists.

 

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