understanding sustainable building skills seminar

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Blake Lapthorn were delighted to welcome guest speaker Liz Reason, Managing Director of the Green Gauge Trust, a new not-for-profit organisation which aims to mainstream the knowledge and skills for low energy low carbon buildings, to its a breakfast seminar on Tuesday 29 March 2011 at its Oxford office.

Liz Reason of the Green Gauge Trust provided an overview of the knowledge and skills required to reliably deliver low energy sustainable buildings, for both existing and new buildings, including the business implications and opportunities, and how to develop skills plans.

biography

From 2004-2009, Liz was director of the AECB’s CarbonLite, a programme of energy and carbon literacy for a sustainable built environment.   In 2009-2010 she helped to set up what is now the Passivhaus Trust.  In Summer 2010 she set up and became Managing Director of Green Gauge in order to engage with the mainstream buildings industry on knowledge and skills. 

She has been both an adviser and an assessor for a number of Technology Strategy Board buildings competitions.  She is a member of the Steering Group of the Existing Homes Alliance, a coalition of organisations working to promote policies for the effective reduction of energy use and carbon emissions in existing homes.  In 2008-2009, she was a member of the Government’s Eco-towns Challenge Panel.

Formerly, Liz was director of ILEX Energy Consulting Ltd, one of Europe’s leading energy markets specialists.  She advised commercial and government clients in the UK and Europe on a wide range of issues on the electricity market and latterly the carbon market.

liz.reason@greengaugetrust.org.

07713 407772

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The ZeroWISE Sustainable Construction Project is part funded by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and European Regional Development Funding (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-13.