Construction in a Changing Climate: Building for Resilience Conference

Thank-you to all those that attended and contributed to our highly successful and interesting conference on climate change adaptation in the built environment which was held at Arup's office in Bristol on 14 September 2011. You can now view the Construction in a Changing Climate: Building for Resilience Conference film here 

You will also find below a copy of the speakers' presentations.

Speakers' presentations

Click on the links below to view PDFs of the speakers' presentations. You can view videos of the speakers here.

Welcome (52KB)
Alex Webb, Manager, Climate SouthWest and Tom Harper, Director, Constructing Excellence South West and Future Foundations

A personal insight to climate change (2.5MB)
Judy Gibson, Climate Witness

Designing for Future Climate - the challenges and opportunities (198KB)
Key Note Speaker: Prof Bill Gething

A resilient office? Experience from Wessex Water's Operations Centre (618KB)
Dan Green, Wessex Water

Developing a climate change adaptation strategy for Trowbridge County Hall (1.6MB)
Josh Kates and Enrico Isenghi, WSP

Tackling climate change as business risk (2.5MB)
Beulah Keane, Marks and Spencer

Resilient homes: adaptation and liveability
Alan Wylde (81KB), Swindon Council and Robin Parker (674KB), NPS

Adaptation in Master Planning: Onsite development (2.6MB)
Simon Martin, Bath and NE Somerset Council

Telling the narrative (2.2MB)
Mark Hodgson, Widescreenstories

10 summary points (12MB)
Lesley Seymour, Conference Chair