HeatHack: Saving Energy on Buildings

This workshop is those who manage community buildings, such as churches, villages halls, and sports clubs.

HeatHack's programme use games and activities to help your organisation understand and agree about what makes sense for you to save energy in your building. The sessions are designed to lead to a high level plan that covers everything from checking the heating controls are fit for purpose to undertaking a full building retrofit. The session will cover topics such as:

• The importance of finding out what the community needs from a building and ensuring a building stays in good use
• What matters for thermal comfort; ways to keep people warm without trying to keep warm air in hard-to-retrofit buildings
• Retrofit options for reducing heat loss
• Dealing with increased/harder rainfall
• Achieving consensus and planning for change
• How to have the right conversations with professionals and convince funders that your plan is a good one

In this workshop, HeatHack's founder Jean Carletta will draw on activities from the programme to highlight the key things you need to think about if you want to reduce energy use in your buildings and answer any questions you have about what they mean for you.

For more information: see https://guide.heathack.org/

Full event address: St. Anne's Scottish Episcopal & Methodist Church, 1 Westgate, Dunbar EH42 1JL

About HeatHack

In 2010, Jean and an engineer faced some tricky problems in a very cold Edinburgh church with enormous gas bills. To solve them, they had to combine a bit of technology for temperature monitoring with engineering, research, and thinking about what people do. Jean wanted to make this easier for other people, and HeatHack is the result. We developed our current sessions with funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Ingenious programme and the help of volunteer engineers and community groups from across the UK trying it out so they could tell us what did and didn’t work for them.