The ACA was delighted to present this online webinar with energy efficiency champion Jenny Edwards and her colleague Duncan Hall. This informative session provides invaluable advice on creating highly efficient, all-electric, climate-resilient homes, highlighting the delights of small spaces and the transformative power of renovation. Originally held 28 May 2024.
Many in the housing industry suggest that to achieve energy efficiency, the only solution is to knock down homes and start from scratch. But there is another way. New homes are often sold on how much more people can have – more floor area, more rooms, more square metres for the dollar – implying this is of more value. However, bigger doesn’t necessarily equal better, argues Jenny Edwards. More doesn’t make people happier when it equals more resources (financial and environmental) to build, more to heat/cool, more to maintain and clean.
Australia’s homes have great potential for renovation where existing housing stock can be transformed into energy-efficient, all-electric homes. Life Cycle Analysis highlights the sustainability benefits of renovation solutions. People value comfortable, affordable, sustainable homes and good science-based design advice.
This webinar features owner and Director Jenny Edwards and registered architect and Design Lead Duncan Hall, from Light House Architecture and Science, a multi-award-winning practice that integrates science into the design process to deliver highly efficient, all-electric, climate resilient homes, new and renovated, in the Canberra region.
OUR SPEAKERS
Jenny Edwards is owner, Managing Director and Lead Scientist at Light House Architecture & Science. She is an ACT licensed Building Energy Efficiency Assessor and was named 2023 Energy Efficiency Champion at the National Energy Efficiency Conference for her free advocacy and education work about residential energy efficiency over the last 15 years. Jenny established Energy Imaging in 2008, which was the first Australian business to combine the use of air leakage testing and thermal imaging in the local construction industry. In 2010, Jenny established an energy efficiency consulting business – Scinergy – which won the ACT Sustainable Cities Energy Innovation Award in 2010 for its innovative, scientific approach to improving energy efficiency in the residential construction sector. In 2019, the ACT branch of the Institute of Architects awarded Jenny the Clem Cummings prize for “outstanding contribution to architecture and the built environment.”
Duncan Hall is a Canberra based architect and Design Lead at Light House Architecture and Science.With previous experience both in high-end residential architecture and delivering construction training in rural Timor Leste, Duncan is a passionate believer in the value of the middle ground – modest, well designed and delightful homes that put quality of life ahead of architectural showpieces.
COST
Members $30
Non-members $60
*One ticket per attendee.
CPD
Completion of this 1 hour webinar and submission of answers to CPD questions will deliver 1 formal CPD point.
Learning outcomes: An understanding of minimising the impact on, and use of, limited natural resources, recognising their inherent value and prioritising design for a circular economy and longevity. Understanding and integrating relevant design principles and technological applications to support the transition to a carbon neutral built environment.
AACA NSCA: Environmental Practice. Project Initiation and Conceptual Design – PC28, PC31, PC33; Detailed Design and Construction Documentation – PC45; & Design Delivery and Construction Phase Services – PC53.
Links will be provided for recording access and CPD questions. Please complete questions after viewing the webinar in its entirety. Certificates will be provided following online submission of answers to questions. Please keep your receipt, completed questions and certificate for your CPD records.
CONTACT
Please contact Katherine Ygosse at webinars@aca.org.au with any questions.
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