AIA UK - Not Dead Yet: Historic Buildings and the Climate Crisis
Event Description
The UK has an enormous stock of listed, heritage assets which require particular attention. Many of those are managed by institutions or government bodies with ambitious sustainability targets. This talk takes a look at the particular challenges and strategies of adapting historic buildings to the climate crisis.
CES: Estimated 1 LU/HSW for AIA Members
Speakers
Adam Watkins, Project Lead, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Morwenna Slade, Head of Historic Building Climate Change Adaptation, Historic England
Sam Harvey, Associate, AHMM
Moderator: Katharine Storr, Past President, AIA UK; Architectural designer, AHMM
Adam Watkins has 20 years of experience in the field of low energy building design. Recently he has taken this experience directly to clients to fulfil the intelligent client function, his specialism in this area has been the revival of listed assets and putting them on the path to low energy consumption and minimal Carbon emissions. Adam's latest role has been as the project lead for the historic glasshouses at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Morwenna Slade is Head of Historic Building Climate Change Adaptation at Historic England, the Government’s statutory adviser on the historic environment in England. She is a Conservation Accredited Chartered Building Surveyor and her MSc in Historic Building Conservation followed an honours degree in Archaeology. She is based in the technical conservation team and leads a multidisciplinary team focused on the maintenance, repair and adaptation of historic buildings. She has extensive experience gained through working as an independent consultant, as well as for The Churches Conservation Trust and National Trust.
Sam Harvey is an Associate at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects in London with over 20 years of experience in practice. He has delivered numerous projects across a wide range of scales, sectors and typologies. He has tutored building technology at the University of Greenwich and is a RIBA Professional Practice Examiner at several London schools of Architecture. Sam obtained his MA degree and March Diploma from The University of Edinburgh, situated within a UNESCO World Heritage Centre – and has spent the majority of his career working on projects involving existing buildings. In his spare time, he builds treehouses.
Moderator: Katharine Storr hails from the United States but has been practicing in the United Kingdom for 10 years. She is a Senior Architectural Designer at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and a Passivhaus Certified Designer. Prior to joining AHMM, she was at Foster + Partners in London and Apicella + Bunton in New Haven CT. She has been lucky to work on a diverse range of projects from refurbishment of historic buildings, to large scale residential masterplans, to academic and cultural buildings. She has been on the board of the American Institute of Architects UK for over 8 years, is a past President of the Chapter and recently served on the AIA International Board as the UK Representative.
