Workshop Speakers
Built Environment
Any students who want to find out more about the issues in the built environment related to sustainability and ways to address them.
In this workshop find out:
Why the built environment is one of the biggest contributors to sustainability?
How can changes can be made in the built environment to make it more sustainable?
Built Environment Dr Doug Forbes 
Dr Doug Forbes, Whole Life Consultants Ltd, Senior Consultant Dr Forbes is a consultant with Whole Life Consultants Ltd whose background is in civil engineering. His PhD, undertaken in the Construction Management Research Unit at the University of Dundee examined the risks associated with the sustainability assessment of housing. His expertise lies in sustainability assessment of the built environment, risk management and construction labour productivity. Built Environment Mr Tom Dyer  | Built Environment Mr Matt Craigon  Mr Mat Craigon, Technical Manager Scottish Construction Centre Mat Craigon is a Technical Manager to the Scottish Construction Centre where he manages a team of people charged with delivering pragmatic guidance to the construction industry based on the latest research outputs in a number of areas including: sustainability, productivity, energy, health and safety, value management, innovation & project management. His background is as a building services engineer with over 10 years experience within a consultancy environment in the US and UK. Built Environment Dr Husam AlWaer  |
Tom Dyer is a materials scientist working in the field of construction materials, with an emphasis on cement and concrete. Much of his work involves looking at ways in which waste materials can be diverted away from disposal and used in construction applications in ways that exploit their properties to best advantage. | Dr Husam is a lecturer at the University Of Dundee, School Of Architecture. He is the programme leader for the New Msc Advanced Sustainability of the Built Environment. He has researched and published in the area of sustainability, Sustainability Indicators, sustainable community and cities, and measuring the level of sustainability for the built environment over the last 8 years and, he is Invited Chair and keynote speaker at several summits and referred conferences in the UK, EU and Middle East. He is now a chair for the second international conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development in Jordan 2010. |
"No food without water"
Anyone interested in the impending global food crisis, and the critical pressures placed on the global environment, particularly, fresh water resources.
In attending this work shop you will gain:
An improved awareness of the links between water and food and an understanding of the policy constraints and consequent choices to feed an expanded population in the 21st century.
Food and Water Dr Sarah Hendry 
Sarah has
a background in water law and environmental law, delivering courses to law and
non-law students at postgraduate and undergraduate level, as well as short
course work for water services providers and environmental regulators amongst
other client groups. She works on the UNESCO IHP-HELP programme, and was a
contributor to the World Water Development Report 3, through the Legal Experts’
Group chaired by the Centre director, Professor Patricia Wouters.
Energy and Transport Mr Randall Rickabaugh Managing the environmental impact of car travel in business
This workshop is to gain better understanding of how cost and environmental savings can be achieved even within an industry which by definition is a polluter; in particular how unique ideas and ways of looking at sustainability can be derived from something as seemingly mundane renting an automobile.
University of Connecticut (Storrs Ct USA) : Economics Essex University (Colchester): Economics/Government Business Rental Sale Director Randall has been with Enterprise Holdings for 14 years, having moved over from the US to the UK in 1997 to assist in opening its’ first ever Scotland operations. In 2001 he moved to the position of Business Rental Sales Director - managing the business to business marketing efforts of the company as well developing and overseeing the long term hire division in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. Working very closely with both the private and public sector organisations, he and his team have developed a variety of industry initiatives aimed at tackling inefficiencies, improving performance, and better managing the environmental impact of transport policies. Current clients include Scottish Police, Scottish Higher Education, D & G Council, City of Edinburgh Council, RBS, NHS Scotland to name just a few. |
Transition Towns
Oil will eventually run out and the recent predictions for climate change from our own Met Office is that the earth will warm by 40C, not by 2100 as originally thought but by 2050. We need an alternative to fossil fuel use and we will all have to adjust to a greatly reduced ‘carbon lifestyle’.
Transition Towns are in the vanguard of searching for and applying locally relevant carbon reduced lifestyles. The movement has suddenly burgeoned with some 600 plus communities worldwide.
This workshop will examine the movement and provide knowledge of the approach that is currently being taken by one such local community.
Transition Towns
Mr Bill Lynch
Bill Lynch is a Lecturer within Town and Regional Planning and currently responsible for undergraduate degrees.He has a keen interest in environmental matters and recently returned from a three year secondment with Learning and Teaching Scotland advising on the application of sustainable development education within formal schooling here in Scotland.He is a Director of two environmental charities – Sustain Dundee and Tayside Foundation for the Conservation of Resources and is also a member of the Local Footprints Advisory Group.
Bill represents the university at the community planning realm as a member of the Dundee Partnership for the Environment.
