Association of University Engineers

Overcoming Barriers to Better Building Performance in Higher Education: Advanced Level Workshop

"£5 billion spent on new buildings each year, these buildings use 2-3 x more energy than designed" - 2014 Green Construction Board Report

Building on feedback from the EAUC, numerous building performance evaluations (BPEs) and interviews with HE Environment and Sustainability Managers, AHR’s R&D Group hosted an advanced level workshop to discuss some of the most common issues encountered on higher education projects with regard to building performance.

With many of the results finalised AHR, along with professional bodies and Innovate UK, were looking to establish how solutions that were successfully deployed on selected projects could be applied to higher education portfolios and ascertain what is required to implement these.

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Published: 13 May 2016

Type: General

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