As part of our ongoing series of webinars related to our Study Day, Net Zero Carbon – Building Resilience, Patrick Brown, Head of Sustainable Construction Delivery, City of Edinburgh Council will be discussing Edinburgh City’s continuing journey to Zero Carbon.

Patrick has a wide range of experience, at various times leading key aspects of building construction and operation including design, project management, facilities management, energy management, PFI/PPP operational contract management and acted as the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for a strategic outsourcing initiative, which reached preferred bidder stage, for all the Council’s property related technical functions.

Patrick currently heads the delivery of the design and project management service for CEC’s (non- housing) Operational Estate.

Following the closure of the Council’s (PFI) PPP1 education estate in 2016, as a consequence of a structural failure, he had a lead role in addressing the technical response to reopening the 17 schools impacted. In addition, he led the development and implementation of the Council’s response to de-risking the wider Operational Estate with regard to these issues identified in the PPP1 estate failure. He also developed and implemented the response to the construction quality recommendations of Professor Cole’s report which the City of Edinburgh Council had commissioned.

Patrick has a long- standing interest in energy and sustainability with a current focus on addressing construction quality issues, the emerging energy ‘performance gap’ and Net Zero. This interest resulted in making the case for the adoption of Passivhaus for new build projects which is now the City of Edinburgh Council’s approach across its Operational Estate.

Patrick has established an informal Passivhaus Delivery Forum currently attended by eight Local Authorities across Scotland who are delivering projects to Certified Passivhaus standard. Some Authorities are now at very advanced stages of Passivhaus project delivery.

In response to the Net Zero challenge Patrick led on a pilot study examining the implications of deep fabric retrofit to enable the deployment of heat pumps (this being the current available low/zero carbon primary heating technology for many buildings at this time). In an extension to the above mentioned Passivhaus Delivery Forum collaborative effort, this feasibility approach is being considered by three other Scottish Local Authorities with a view to pooling the findings.

Facilitating the session will be Greg Keeling, Essex County Council, and Events Director, SPACES.

The webinar will be hosted on webinarjam and you can register here.

Once again thank you to our sponsors this year  Atkins, Bauder Roofing, Faithful+Gould, Norse Group, Pick Everard and Willmott Dixon.

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