Progress in Solar Architecture - a half day event

Using solar systems with energy storage is an obvious major step to radically reducing energy use in, and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. Clients now demand it and regulations promote it's use. For architects it is important to understand how to design and detail solar systems well to ensure they both look good and perform well.

This half day event is held on the anniversary of the launch of Britain's first integrated PV roof thirty years ago on the nearby Oxford Ecohouse. It aims to provide architects and builders with an opportunity to keep up-to-date with thinking and practice in solar design. Set against a short history of the use of the technologies on buildings by pioneering designers, attendees will gain insights into how to integrate solar technologies interestingly, elegantly and efficiently into buildings with perspectives from practice from Charlie Luxton and Alex Michaelis. A view on how solar systems might evolve in the future in a heating climate also comes with Ricardo Ruther, from Brazil.

Info: 12.30 Registration and Refreshments

13.00 Mark Candlish: Welcome Introduction to the afternoon

13.15 Sue Roaf, George Goudsmit and Bruce Cross: Building Blocks of Integrated Solar

13.45 Alex Michaelis: Solar Buildings to Solar Architecture – sixty years of solar design

14.45…. Charlie Luxton: Making solar work well on buildings today

15.15 TEA

15.45…. Ricardo Ruther: Solar Design Lessons for a hotter future

16. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Chair: Susan Roaf – Panel: Mark Candlish, Bruce Cross, George Goudsmit, Alex Michaelis, Charlie Luxton, Ricardo Ruther.

17.00 Make way over to the Solar Pioneer’s party at the Oxford Ecohouse

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