Symposium: Almshouses and Livery Climate Action Group net Zero

Venue: Temple Bar London, First Floor, Paternoster Lodge, 2 Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DX

Timing: 27th February 2023, 10am - 1pm 

Event Programme:

10.00-10.10 Chairman’s introduction - Alderman Alison Gowman, Chair of the Livery Climate Action Group and Chris Dyson, Master of the Chartered Architects' Livery Company

Fixing the past

10.10-10.30 Refurbishing the 18th-century almshouses, Museum of the Home, Hackney - Naila Yousuf, Wright & Wright

10.30-10.50 Improving performance of listed buildings - Michael Popper, P3r Engineers 

10.50-11.10 Upgrading historic fabric and planning: Royal Hospital - Dr Roger Bowdler, Montagu Evans 

11.10-11.20 Panel Q&A 

11.20-11.40 Coffee break

Planning the future

11.40-12.00 Transforming almshouses for the 21st century - Jenny Pannell, Independent consultant

12.00-12.20 Morden College: Social infrastructure for almshouses: Morden College - Alex Ely, Mæ 

12.20-12.40 The contemporary almshouse: United St Saviour’s - Stephen Witherford, Witherford Watson Mann Architects

12.40-13.00 Panel Q&A and Chairman’s closing remarks