Keynote address: Energy futures – decarbonisation and decentralisation. Lee Hargreaves, Associate Director, Buro Happold.

How can we learn from past energy generation and infrastructure design and move to a decarbonised and decentralised energy network? What are the current challenges and key energy technologies for deployment?

Lee is an Associate Director at Buro Happold. Currently, he is the Global Lead of Knowledge and Operations for the Building Environments group, which supports the advancement of the disciplines six strategic focus groups on: health, wellbeing and productivity, building performance, smart buildings, digital design, design for manufacture, and BIM for efficient production.

His specialisms include designing beyond standard environmental assessment, optimisation of heating, ventilation and comfort cooling strategies, building physics, and low energy design with zero carbon technology. He is an advocate of new technologies ahead of mainstream application, including: integrated structural ventilation, ground and water source heat pumps, community and district heating networks using alternative technologies.