[Netnews-action] 20 July: seminar: Building-Integrated Renewable Energy Solutions

[michael]

>From: "susan stubbs" <s.stubbs at manchester.ac.uk>
>
>Announcing the following seminar:
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>Wednesday July 20th at 3.00pm
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>"Building-Integrated Renewable Energy Solutions"
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>Speaker: Dr Derek Taylor, Principal of Altechnica in Milton Keynes, and 
>visiting lecturer at the Open University, teaching 'Renewable Energy & Design'.
>
>
>This presentation will give an introduction and overview of building- 
>integrated renewable energy solutions for carbon-free/carbon neutral 
>energy provision and abating carbon dioxide emissions. It will cover 
>predominantly small-scale technologies appropriate for buildings including 
>wind, solar, ground, bio-fuel and water based energy solutions and 
>innovative building design approaches for electricity, heating, cooling 
>and ventilation provision. In addition the presentation will cover some of 
>the recent development innovations in building integrated/augmented wind 
>power solutions.
>
>Dr Taylor is Principal of Altechnica the Milton Keynes based renewable 
>energy innovation, consulting and architectural practice established in 
>1990 which carries out renewable energy consulting, zero energy design of 
>buildings and technology innovation.  He has carried out a range of 
>projects in these fields including renewable feasibility studies, design 
>studies, zero energy buildings, county- wide renewable energy resource 
>studies and various wind and solar innovation projects.  He is the 
>architect of a zero energy house designed to avoid the need for a heating 
>system - under construction in Herefordshire.
>
>Dr Derek Taylor is Visiting Lecturer in Renewable Energy and Design in the 
>Energy & Environment Research Unit (EERU) and the Design & Innovation Dept 
>of the Open University and a member of the course team that produced award 
>winning OU courses in Renewable Energy (T521, T265, XT01) and Sustainable 
>Energy (T206).  He's responsible for the wind energy components of these 
>courses and for wind energy research in EERU.  He has lectured widely on 
>renewable energy and zero energy building design and has authored over 100 
>publications on these topics.  Dr Taylor has been involved with renewable 
>energy and low energy building design since 1972 and has researched and 
>patented a range of novel wind power technologies including vertical axis 
>turbines and building-integrated/augmented wind energy devices.
>
>Dr Taylor was awarded the British Wind Energy Association's 1996 Wind 
>Energy Pioneer award for his role in the development of the wind energy 
>industry and was a founding member of the BWEA.  Dr Taylor is a chartered 
>architect and holds a Masters degree in Industrial Design Engineering from 
>the Royal College of Art and a Doctorate in renewable energy from the Open 
>University.  He is also a director of the Milton Keynes Energy Agency.
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>
>* Light refreshments (tea/coffee) will be provided before the seminar at 
>2.45pm.
>
>
>Venue: Room H18 in the Pariser Building, Sackville St, University of 
>Manchester.