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BPN has had a busy and exciting week. At CIBSE’s Build2Perform, BPN announced its campaign for a joint industry position on disclosure and performance commitments.  Our statement has been jointly signed by CIBSE, Good Homes Alliance, LETI, RIBA and UKGBC.  We are delighted to launch this collaborative response to the performance
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Building Performance Network will be at Build2Perform on Wednesday 27th November, 8:45-10:00. We are looking forward to hearing from @wilfredsouth, Ioanna Mytilinaiou (Greater London Authority), Simon Cross of @BRE_Group, @alex_tait and @JulieG_Sust. Find us bright and early, 8:45 in main theatre with coffee! Details of our session, Performance Declares! are
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Building Performance Network will be at Build2Perform on Wednesday 27th November, 8:45-10:00. Details of our session, Performance Declares! are here. It is free to register for Build2Perform.  Do so here.
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Following discussions at a BPN event, the BPN undertook to write to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).  We asked the CCC to press for changes to the Building Regulations such that they test for building performance in operation and ensure that our built environment contributes positively to this country
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George Martin expresses our thanks to Mike Ormesher as he steps down as Chair of the Building Performance Network. “Mike Ormesher has been a founding member of the BPN since 2016 and was instrumental in setting up the governance, structure, strategy, marketing and membership activities for the future of the
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July 3, 2:00pm – 5:30pm, The Jam Factory, Oxford Come to Oxford to for an update on our research project, policy insight from our colleagues are CIBSE, as well as an introduction to their new benchmarks, plus case studies from exemplar BPE projects in housing and insight from a forthcoming
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Presentations at Futurebuild 2019 were recorded.  Those from the BPN seminar Ensuring quality and performance in new homes can currently (as of 04/06/19) be found following these links.  These will work if you are first logged in not the Colab website, which is free to register for. Introduction by George Martin Prof
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As part of the BPN’s State of the Nation Report on Domestic Buildings, Oxford Brookes University is carrying out a mapping of studies and datasets concerned with the performance of homes.  An online survey has been set up to identify the studies and datasets on housing performance are available in the UK.
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This week at Futurebuild, BPN CEO George Martin announced a partnership between the Building Performance Network and CIBSE, designed to bring a number of benefits to the Network. As members will be aware, George took on the role of Interim CEO in January 2017 and as part of the partnership
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New date for the BPN and Passivhaus Trust site visit to the Passivhaus Sutton Secondary School The BPN is pleased to offer a site visit to a massive Passivhaus project in Sutton.  BPN Members, Willmott Dixon, are building the £36m secondary school as part of the London Cancer Hub, and
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