Usable Buildings: Presentations (sorted by year, most recent first)

Presentations (sorted by year, most recent first) ¹¹⁶

Various authors, Support reading list for courses and events.
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BORDASS, Bill, Insights from Building Performance Evaluation Studies
Usable Buildings, presentation to Oxford Brookes University, 24 Oct 2024. Also covers ground in presentations in 2020, 2022 and 2023. .
BORDASS, Bill, Energy Retrofits and Traditional Buildings: Let's keep things in proportion
UCL Centre for Sustainable Heritage, 2 Feb 2024 .
Bordass, Bill, Old windows and the science of heat, air and moisture transfer
A Future for Historic Windows, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester 27-28 June 2024 .
BORDASS, Bill, The case for a Public Sector Research Establishment for the Built Environment
edgedebate.com .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit: A Sense Of Proportion
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) Annual Conference 2023, Progressing Retrofit – designing for human factors: comfort, health & affordability, Glasgow 15-16 September 2023 .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance Evaluation and POE: Past, Present and Future
Heriot-Watt University, 8 February 2023 .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Post-Occupancy Evaluation: from post-mortem to life support
Presentation to Allies + Morrison, London, 14 November, 2023. .
CURTIS, Roger, Appropriate retrofit of traditional and listed buildings
Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) 2023 Conference .
LEAMAN, Adrian, A Strategic Perspective Suggests Leverage Points
Interactive slide, IMDB, Cambridge (Dec 2022), Allies and Morrison (Nov 2023) .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit Our Buildings, or Our Brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, 1 April 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
BORDASS, Bill, Beyond Space Heating and Cooling: Changing Mindsets in a Climate and Environmental Emergency
Climate at the Extremes Conference, Edinburgh, 6 September 2002 .
BORDASS, Bill, Beyond Space Heating and Cooling: changing mindsets in a climatic and environmental emergency
Usable Buildings for PowerEx Live Conference, London, 8 December, 2022. Pdf .
BORDASS, Bill, Retrofit our buildings, or our brains? Changing Mindsets for the Climate Emergency (PDF)
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, St Peter’s, Vauxhall, London April 1, 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
FOO, Grace, Design for Performance: Lessons from the Nabers Independent Design Review (IDR) UK
CIBSE Technical Symposium, UK April 2022 .
LEESON, Adala, Heritage and the Circular Economy
Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB) Conference, 1 April 2022, Lessons from built heritage in the climate emergency. .
PASQUALE, Lisa, PAS2035 Conflicts with Traditional and Heritage Buildings: Five Critical Conflicts and Dilemmas
Sustaining Buildings conference, STBA & SPAB, Wednesday 12th October, 2022 .
PENDER, Robyn, How Energy Availability Influenced Building Form
Online presentation to Traditional Architecture Group, 30 June 2022. Full slide set 40Mb download.. Compressed 15Mb download. Please contact Robyn Pender for slide citation permissions. .
ANDERSON, Kevin, Getting Off A Moving Train: timely responses to the climate emergency
Centre for Alternative Technology, webinar, 22 Sep 2021. Presentation starts at 2:28 . .
BARRETT, Mark and CASSARINO, Tizians Gallo, A 100% renewable UK with a focus on heat  
Centre for Energy Research Into Energy Demand Solutions, UCL Energy Institute, October 2021. This version is a pdf vesrion of the original Powerpoint presentation. .
BORDASS, Bill, How Much Heat Do We Really Need?
PowerEx Live, Park Plaza Hotel, London, 6 October 2021 .
BUNN R., Map of Soft Landings Guidance and Procedures
Version 7.1, Oct 2021. .
SIDDALL, Mark, Lessons from Larch Corner: lessons learned from building a single-storey Passivhaus
AECB webinar, Webinar June 21, 2021 Association for Environment (sic) Conscious Building (AECB) .
BORDASS, BIll, Moisture-related risks in roof spaces: principles and effect of modern practices
Historic England, Traditional Roofs: Repair and conservation, Church House, London, 3 March 2020 .
BORDASS, BIll, Make It Simpler And Do It Better
Energy Institute, Aston Building, de Montfort University, Leicester, March 10, 2020 .
BORDASS, BIll, Designing for in-use Performance not just compliance
Irish Green Building Council webinar, 14 October 2020 .
BORDASS, BIll, Soft Landings: What It Is and What it Can Do
Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland 2 December 2020 .
BORDASS, Bill, Moisture-related risks in roof spaces: principles and effect of modern practices
Historic England, Damp, Timber Decay and Sustainability, Church House, London, 4 May 2021. Companion to 2020 presentation with same title. .
WOOLLEY, Tom, Retrofit: why the use of low embodied energy, low carbon breathable materials is crucial
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA) / The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) 2020 Online Conference, 6th October 2020 . STBA | The SPAB | Rachel Bevan Archiects .
BARBER, Daniel A., After Comfort
Climate Futures II: Design Politics, Design Natures, Aesthetics and the Green New Deal, 12 May 2019 .
BORDASS, BIll, Heat Pumps: Do They Work? Some UK historical background
CIBSE Energy Performance Group, March 12, 2019 .
BORDASS, BIll, Sleepwalking Into Unsustainability
Cambridge Architectural Research Showroom, July 10 2019 .
BORDASS, BIll, Make It Simpler And Do It Better
Climate Change Emergency - an Engineering Agenda, The Engineering Club, the Building Centre, 5 September 2019 .
BORDASS, Bill and MEIER, Alan, Saving Energy in a Hurry
ECEEE, Giens, 7 June, 2019 .
Norbert Lechner, Zero Energy Buildings are Solar Responsive Buildings that Work
Auburn University, July 2019. See also Heliodons .
Various authors, Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (ASCHB). Members' top twenty books.
ASCHB, 2019 .
Graham Smith, Controllability: The Achilles' Heel of Building Performance
Birling Consulting Ltd 2018 .
Adrian Leaman, What Is A Good Building?
Keynote presentation to PLEA 2017 conference, July 4, 2017, Edinburgh .
Adrian Leaman, Pre-Survey Primer: survey methods: whys and wherefores
Briefing on application of BUS Methodology. MSc Environmental Design and Engineering, UCL, Thursday 4 February, 2016 Presentation via Skype. Repeated 2017, 2018. .
BORDASS, BIll, The Australian perspective: How a Commitment Agreement supports a real estate market that values energy efficiency
Guaranteeing the performance of new office buildings, Ecobuild, London, 8 March 2016 .
Roderic Bunn, The Problem of Building Under-Performance: do we have the wit and will to act?
Session 4 of Building Better Buildings: 50 years of Environmental Design and Engineering, UCL, March 2016 .
Adrian Leaman, Deconstructing Building Performance: with emphasis on needs, perceived health and productivity,
Keynote address, Healthy Buildings 2015 Europe, 18 May, 2015, Eindhoven, The Netherlands .
BORDASS, BIll, Building performance in use: the great unknown?
Eric Parry Architects CPD session 11 June 2015 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Design Intent to Reality: Achieving better building performance in use
University of Cambridge, Professional Practice Workshop, 25 June 2015 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance sessions: Part 1 Building Performance in Use: the Great Unknown 1p2
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT, Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen), Machynlleth, 14 May 2015 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance sessions: Part 2 Coming to Terms with Building Performance in Use 2p1
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT, Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen), Machynlleth, 14 May 2015 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance sessions: Part 2 Coming to Terms with Building Performance in Use 2p2
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT, Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen), Machynlleth, 14 May 2015 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance sessions: Part 3 Building Performance Evaluation Case Studies 3p1
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT, Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen), Machynlleth, 14 May 2015 .
Julian King, Bradford Hill Criteria for Causal Inference
Julian King & Associates, Based on a presentation at the 2015 ANZEA Conference .
Adrian Leaman, Design Intent to Reality: Closing The Performance Gaps
University of Dundee, School of the Environment, Architecture and Planning, 25 September, 2014 .
Adrian Leaman, The Responsible Retrofit Guidance Wheel
SEB 14 - Fifth International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, Cardiff (UK), 7pm, 25 June 2014. .
Adrian Leaman, The Responsible Retrofit Guidance Wheel
Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA) / Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Technical Panel, Energy Efficiency Research Update Conference, London, 17 June 2014. Includes further material on case studies. .
BORDASS, Bill, Tailored Energy Benchmarks for Offices and Schools
CIBSE ASHRAE Technical Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 3-4 April 2014 .
BORDASS, BIll, Do You Know How the Building You Design is Performing?
University College Dublin, 2 April 2014 .
BORDASS, BIll, The Performance Gaps: Where are we now? What are we doing?
Ecobuild. 4 March 2014 .
BORDASS, BIll, Improving Building Performance: sparing no expense to get something on the cheap?
University of Nottingham 30 April 2014 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Time to Get Real About Building Performance in Use
University College Dublin, 2 April 2014 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Design Intent to Reality: Closing the Performance Gaps Part 1
RIBA CPD series 2014. Please note: The presentations shown are for the last in a series of 14 events, Birmingham, 27 November, 2014. .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Design Intent to Reality: Closing the Performance Gaps Part 2
RIBA CPD series 2014. .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Design Intent to Reality: Closing the Performance Gaps Part 3
RIBA CPD series 2014. .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Design Intent to Reality: Closing the Performance Gaps: Reading List
RIBA CPD series 2014. .
Adrian Leaman, Building Performance Evaluation: Who Benefits?
Cardiff Metropolitan University, 3 September, 2013, (by videoconference) .
Adrian Leaman, Human Factors in Buildings: Basics
Primer material for Data Protocols and Knowledge Acquisition workshop, BIS Conference Centre, London SW1. 6 August 2013 .
Adrian Leaman, Responsible Retrofit Guidance Wheel
CoRE event, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, 11 July, 2013 .
Adrian Leaman, Human Factors Considerations in Retrofits (workshop primer)
CoRE event, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, 11 July, 2013 .
Adrian Leaman, Lessons Learned
Presentation to Distinctive Learning Conference (for Eric Parry Architects), St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, 20 March 2013 .
Adrian Leaman, Usable Buildings and the Performance Gap
Collaboration Oxford, Lunchtime seminar series, Shulman Auditorium, Queen's College, Oxford, 8 February 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, New Professionalism: ethics for a sustainable world
University of Cambridge, IDBE Course Design for Survival, 19 July 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, The Performance Gap: a cultural problem
CIBSE YEPG debate, UCL Energy Institute The performance gap – is there really one? 3 July 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, Improving Building Performance: Sparing no expense to get something on the cheap?
Inaugural George Henderson Memorial Lecture, UCL Energy Institute, 12 June, 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, Mind the Gap: a more radical response?
Energy Conversations, The Building Centre, 22 May 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, Using the Evidence Under Our Noses
Ecobuild, 6 Mar 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, Time to Get Real About Building Energy Performance
Ecobuild, 5 Mar 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, A new professionalism?
Edge Debate 54, Building Centre, London, 20 February 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, Can You Trust The Fabric?
Technology Strategy Board Non-domestic Building Performance Evaluation Workshop Coventry, 29 January 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll, New Professionalism: Ethics for a Sustainable World
University of Cambridge, Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE) Course Design for Survival, 19 July 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance: the bigger picture
UCL Masterclass, UCL Energy Institute, 12 June, 2013 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance: the bigger picture
UCL Masterclass, UCL Energy Institute, 12 June, 2013. Video. .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance: the bigger picture: Questions
UCL Energy Institute Masterclass July 2013 .
BORDASS, Bill and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance: the bigger picture
UCL Energy Institute Masterclass July 2013 .
BORDASS, Bill, LEAMAN, Adrian and LORCH, Richard, New Professionalism: Ten Principles All Building Professionals Could Adopt Tomorrow
Edge debate #54, 14 May 2013 Edge debates .
Adrian Leaman, Building Performance Evaluation
London Metropolitan University. MSc Architecture, Energy, Sustainability, 13 March 2012. A shorter version of this presentation was also given to ORMS Architects CPD course on 29 February, 2012. .
BORDASS, BIll, Shale Gas: bane or blessing?
Edge Debate 49 – Shale Gas ICE, 23 April 2012 .
Adrian Leaman, User Needs and Expectations
Usability of Spatial Environments Research Centre guest lecture series, University of Northumbria, 3 November 2011 .
BORDASS, BIll, Design Intent to Reality: Linking Modelling to Performance in Use
13th December 2011, CIBSE, 222 Balham High Road, Balham, London .
BORDASS, BIll, What works, what doesn’t work,  and how we can fix it: using Building Performance Evaluation for rapid improvement
Institute for Sustainability and FLASH+ Building confidence in low-carbon solutions,  Stanhill Court Hotel, 27 September 2011 .
BORDASS, BIll, Built Environment Professionals in the UK: 40 years back, 40 years on
SB11 Helsinki, 2011 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Low-carbon-buildings: all dressed up and nowhere to go
University of Sheffield, PhD group, 2pm, School of Architecture, Crookesmore Building, Tue 24 May 2011 .
BORDASS, BIll, LEAMAN, Adrian and STEVENSON, Fionn, Professionalism revisited after 30 years of free markets
Sponge event,, Tue 17 May 2011, 6pm-9pm, 211 Old Street London EC1V 9DR .
Adrian Leaman, Building Evaluation Primer
Newcastle University, 13 May 2010 .
BORDASS, BIll, Usable Buildings 1970-2050: Back to the future?
Association of University Engineers' 40th Anniversary Conference, Manchester Conference Centre, 9 September 2010, 2-2.40 pm. .
BORDASS, BIll, Benchmarking energy use in public and commercial buildings
USAID India Workshop on Benchmarking of energy consumption and labelling of commercial bulldings, Le Meridien Hotel, New Delhi, 14 July 2010, 1000-1715. Keynote address. .
BORDASS, BIll, Is a concentration on carbon the best way to reduce carbon emissions from the building stock?
Edge Debate, Institution of Civil Engineers, 6-9 pm, 10 June 2010 . .
BORDASS, BIll, Managing expectations for energy and carbon performance
CIBSE National Conference, British Museum, 28 April 2010 .
BORDASS, BIll, People, Buildings, Energy and Carbon: Myths and realities
ARBS 2010 Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia, 3.15 to 4.30 PM, Monday 12 April 2010. Via videolink .
BORDASS, BIll, People, Buildings, Energy and Carbon: Myths and realities
ARBS 2010 Conference, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia, Monday 12 April 2010, Via videolink .
Martin Holladay, The History of Superinsulated Houses in North America
British Columbia Building Envelope Council Vancouver, British Columbia September 22, 2010 .
BORDASS, BIll, Building Services: avoiding unnecessary energy demand and use through careful design and operation
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD, Friday 11 December 2009 .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Building Performance sessions: Part 1 Building Performance in Use: the Great Unknown 1p1
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT, Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen), Machynlleth, 14 May 2015. Similar presentations were given in this series each year from 2009-2014 .
BORDASS, BIll, Bridging the landlord-tenant divide
Upstream seminar, 17 November 2008 .
BORDASS, BIll, Comfort in a Low-carbon Society: Making Good Enough Better Than Just Right
Edge Debate 38, Canada House, 28 October 2008 .
Nathan Sayre, Carrying Capacity: Genesis, History and Conceptual Flaws
Prepared for the Environmental Politics Colloquium, 26 January 2007 .
Adrian Leaman, Productivity in Buildings: the killer variables updated
Building Use Studies, Oct 2005. .
Adrian Leaman, Lighting: What the users say.
Dublin, 2004 .
BORDASS, BIll, DERBYSHIRE, Andrew, ELEY, Joanna and LEAMAN, Adrian, Beyond Probe: Making Feedback Routine
conference paper prepared for Closing The Loop: Post-Occupancy Evaluation: the Next Steps, Windsor UK, 29 April - 2 May, 2004 .
BORDASS, Bill with LEAMAN, Adrian, Buildings that Work
William Bordass Associates, 2000. Presentation to Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) July 2000. Please note: this archived presentation was originally given using overhead projector foils. This version does not include the slides and diagrams which were included in the original. .
BORDASS, BIll and LEAMAN, Adrian, Probe and its Antecedents
This is a PDF file of 35 slides about Probe prepared for the 1999 CIBSE conference. .
LEAMAN, Adrian and BORDASS Bill, The Probe Occupant Surveys and their Implications
Cibse National Conference 1999 .
PROBE Team, The Probe Nine
Graphic used in Probe review papers .
Adrian Leaman, Productivity in Buildings,
Presentation to Norwegian Facilities Management Network, Trondheim, 26 November 1998 .
BORDASS, BIll, Factors for success, or how to compensate for things you take away
Presentation to Workplace Comfort Forum, London, 3 Dec 1998 .
BORDASS W. and LEAMAN A., What Makes a Building Successful For the People Who Use It?
Outline of talk to DMA/BMIB Construction Group Business Seminar, 5 February 1992 .
Michael Humphreys, Thermal Comfort in the Context of Energy Conservation
Talk at Oxford Polytechnic, June 1991 .
SAGAN, Carl, Sagan on Global Warming and Climate Investment, 1990
@wisdomthruklnowledge .
BORDASS, BIll, How Intelligent Should your Office be?
Outline of presentation to 1AM Conference,,18-20 April 1989 .
BORDASS, BIll, The Effects - for Good or Ill - of building services and their controls
Building Pathology '89, conference .