SHAP events and meetings take forward our research activities. Typically, our events programme includes our annual SHAP Conference, discussion workshops and site visits – as well as specific topic-focused ‘Task and Finish’ Working Group meetings. We have just introduced our NEW free-to-attend Webinar series, focusing on a variety of sustainable housing-related issues, starting in May with Fuel Poverty and the Warm Homes Save Lives proposals.
Under Covid-19 restrictions, all events for the foreseeable future will take place online.
Webinar Series 2020
Webinar #2: Tackling Fuel Poverty & Heat Decarbonisation Together (30 June): with updates from SEA, NIBE, NEA, Liquid Gas UK and Sero Energy. View/download slide-deck & listen to presentations from webinar (below).
Webinar #1: Fuel Poverty Update: with updates from Energy Capital, Marches Energy Agency and Act on Energy. View/download slide-deck & listen to presentations from webinar (below).
See updates in the regular SHAP Newsletter and below for the events and meetings scheduled over the next few months.
Recent/past events
SHAP Conference 2020
Photos, slides, reference publications
photo highlights
- SHAP Conference: 4 Feb 2020 (Fuel Poverty half-day AM)
Central Birmingham, hosted by Public Health England and part funded by the European Regional Development Fund to launch the West Midlands Fuel Poverty Proposals. Focusing on those involved in addressing fuel poverty, and those involved in delivery over the next three years – existing agencies, local authorities, industry partners (energy companies, supply chain), social housing providers, regulators and policy makers. - SHAP Conference: 4 Feb 2020 (Sustainable New Build half-day PM)
Central Birmingham, hosted by Public Health England – workshop on housing and well-being design principles and the WMCA Design Charter. Part funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Featuring a presentation on the award-winning Goldsmith Street passivhaus community development.
SHAP Conference – key reference documents
Morning Sessions
Afternoon Sessions
Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/24/changes-building-regulations-less-energy-efficient
Past Events
A SHAP half-day workshop examining how performance standards for new-build healthy homes can help meet climate change targets
Thurs, 24 October 2019
Civic Centre, Cannock Chase DC, Staffordshire
Background Reference Materials for Cannock Workshop: Performance Standards for new-build healthy homes (24 Oct; Cannock Chase DC)
SHAP West Midlands Fuel Poverty Programme 2019-2020
SHAP Fuel Poverty ‘Task & Finish’ Groups
SHAP is being funded by Energy Capital to support development of a West Midlands Fuel Poverty research proposal, to be delivered by January 2020. Five ‘Task & Finish’ multi-discipline practitioner groups are now working on targeted research for dissemination at the SHAP Conference (early-2020).
See the ‘Task & Finish’ Group details below.
Groups are up and running but we can always use more expertise!
Practitioners are now being invited to join a group to help inform the research and help the West Midlands address it s fuel poverty issues. Details of the Groups and their scheduled meetings are below (all meetings are based in or around Birmingham, and can also be attended online if needed.
- Group 1: Programme Architecture & Governance (Innovation and Holistic Approach)
Meetings scheduled: Weds Nov 6 and Thurs Dec 5th, 2019 - Group 2: Business Case and Assessing the Benefits:
Meetings scheduled: Thurs Oct 31 2019 - Group 3: Academic Collaboration
Meetings scheduled: Weds Oct 30 and Weds Dec 4 2019 - Group 4: Supply Chain Technical
Meetings scheduled: Fri 25 Oct and Tues 26 Nov - Group 5: Performance Management
Meetings scheduled: Thurs 31 Oct and Thurs 28 Nov 2019 - Group 6: Design of Area-Based Schemes and Development of Pilots
Meetings scheduled: Thurs 24 Oct 2019
External events 2020
Act on Energy are providing free training for front line practitioners who come into regular contact with vulnerable consumers. Following the training practitioners will be able to:
Identify the causes of fuel poverty and know how this can affect people
Spot the signs of fuel poverty
Support people in practical ways to save energy and money
Places for the Birmingham events can be made via Eventbrite using the links below:
| Dates (2020) | Time | Venue | |
| Thursday, 23rd January | 10 – 12 noon | Spitfire House, 10 High Street, Castle Vale, Birmingham, B35 7PR | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-energy-saving-network-training-tickets-86130730333 |
| Tuesday, 10th March | 10 – 12 noon | West Midlands Combined Authority, 16 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3SD | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-energy-saving-network-training-tickets-86136270905?utm_term=eventurl_text |
SHIFT: Sustainability and Value For Money, 14 Nov 2019, Leeds
Aimed at social landlords, this event will provide information on how to develop a skeleton financial business case for pursuing environmental improvements. It’s free for social landlords. Please see details and book here
Low Carbon Homes North West, 14 Nov 2019, Manchester
Low Carbon Homes is a series of events, focused on retrofit, which in 2019 have been hosted in Dorset, Sussex and Suffolk and for this November, in Manchester. Each event follows a similar collaborative model, encouraging and facilitating dialogue between our architect, engineer, landlord, surveyor, consultant, contractor and local authority attendees.
The free-to-attend 1-day programme covers the whole-house approach to retro-fitting the UK’s aging housing stock – heat-loss, air-tightness, insulation, renewables, and system optimisation – equipping delegates with valuable insight to help dispel myths, and encourage take-up of low carbon solutions. Our host partners bring local context to the programme, making take-away actions highly topical, relevant and do-able. Read more…
ERDF Technical Briefings and Site Visits
SHAP has been re-contracted to provide technical assistance to support the development of low carbon housing and whole place innovations projects in the GBSLEP area. New calls for ERDF will be opening in the early summer and SHAP continues to organise technical briefings and site visits to build awareness of ERDF grant and technical innovation. Please contact co-ordinator@shap.uk.com for more information.
West Midlands Fuel Poverty Programme
SHAP is working with Energy Capital to investigate approaches for setting up and sustaining a West Midlands Programme to address fuel poverty. The concept of the region hosting a large-scale national pilot has been agreed in principle with WMCA and BEIS. Initial discussions with obligated suppliers have been encouraging.
West Midlands Fuel Poverty ‘Task & Finish’ Groups are now set-up and underway with their specific areas of research. Practitioners in the West Midlands are invited to join and contribute to this important research. Group meetings have been fixed in the West Midlands area (usually held in central Birmingham). Please contact us if you would like to join a group and contribute. (Group meeting dates are being finalised now and will be published here imminently for your information).
Collective Energy Switching
Local Authorities have been working with iChoosr to run Collective Energy switches. Please get in touch if you would be interested in attending or hosting further iChoosr events which will explain how Collective Energy switching can benefit bill payers and those providing financial inclusion and energy management services.
2018 SHAP Events archive
SHAP ERDF Tour at Totally Modular Tyseley Factory
Please contact Rosemary Coyne – email co-ordinator@shap.uk.com
SHAP CLC ERDF Workshop – Procuring for value – a follow-up to the SHAP WMHOG Research
Please contact Rosemary Coyne – email co-ordinator@shap.uk.com
ERDF Priority 4 and Priority 6 Roadshow
Date 1st November 2018
Time: 10:00 – 12:00
Venue: Birmingham City Council,Victoria Square,Committee Room 3, Birmingham, B1 1BB
To register please click here
SHAP ERDF WMHOG Research Update Webinar and Dudley College Tour
ES Catapult
Transforming places through clean growth
We’re pleased to announce that James Heappey MP, Chair of the Conservative Back Bench Policy Committee for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Vice Chair of the Association for Decentralised Energy, will be opening our inaugural local area energy conference, while Sir Vince Cable MP, founder of the Catapults, and Leader of the Liberal Democrats will be delivering the closing session.
15 May 2018 09:30 – 16:00
LOCATION
Sandwell Council House, Freeth Street, Oldbury, B69 3DB
Energy Efficiency in Your Community
19/04/2018 10:00 – 16:30 Location: B15 2AT
Community Energy England and Carbon Coop have joined forces to bring you a full day of workshops and presentations from industry experts and practitioners in energy efficiency and domestic retrofit.
The event is focused on practical skills to enable Community Energy organisations and partners to initiate, improve and extend energy efficiency services in their area.
Fuel Poverty and the Energy System
08/11/2017 10:00 – 16:00 Location: B4 6BS
The day will cover two elements related to fuel poverty.
The morning session will focus on the Fair Futures programme.
Energy Systems Catapult is developing a programme, Fair Futures, to understand the issues faced by different vulnerable energy consumers and identify the areas where commercial, governmental, community and householder needs and motivations could be aligned to provide more effective policies, products and services.
This interactive session with SHAP will explore what we already know about working with vulnerable people, what the underlying causes of fuel poverty are and ways to support them in the future.
The afternoon session will focus on technologies to aid Fuel Poverty.
With the increase in battery storage technology, you will hear from Sunamp on how their thermal storage works and, with the rise of electric vehicles and shifts in policy priorities in relation to energy and transport systems, Cenex will present on the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.
SHAP ERDF WMHOG West Midlands New Build Housing Standard
16/11/2017 10:00 – 16:00 Location: B3 2ES
At this event we will give an introduction to the new ERDF calls in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull area and how this funding could be used to test new build innovation in projects developed to respond to the research findings based on the discussions at today’s event.
A WEST MIDLANDS PERFORMANCE STANDARD FOR NEW BUILD HOMES
Driving up quality and performance within a financially viable delivery model.
This is the final of four workshops discussing a West Midlands new build performance standard and the potential for ERDF grant to support innovative approaches to the delivery of high quality new build housing developments; striving for a replicable, scaleable approach to creating long term positive impact from investment in new housing being made now.
In this workshop we will be defining our proposal for a West Midlands new build standard for healthy homes, drawing on the previous three workshops. We will:
- discuss how to manage competing priorities within the current financial and regulatory context, and
- debate the potential for new approaches to determining value for money and how they can realistically and viably lead to delivery of a high quality, energy efficient national housing infrastructure.
Outcomes from this workshop will be shared at our event to launch the research interim report on 27 November 2017 at the HCA building, Birmingham City Centre.
This event is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and by the West Midlands Housing Officers Group.
ERDF grant is available in most LEP areas currently. The Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP has calls open for gap funding innovative new build low carbon homes and projects involving land remediation and the creation of blue and green infrastructure.
SHAP ERDF WMHOG Research Interim Reports Launch
27/11/2017 10:00 – 13:00 Location: B3 2PW
In 2017, the West Midlands Housing Officers Group (WMHOG) has part funded research into three related issues where there is need, demand and an evidence base that business as usual will not deliver the high quality homes and national housing infrastructure required in the UK.
This morning event launches the interim findings of the SHAP WMHOG task and finish groups so that our wider networks and key UK innovators and leaders can comment and add their own thinking to the debate. The outcomes of the event will be taken forward in further research and the final outputs will be launched on 16 May 2018.
The event signposts to the opportunities to bid for ERDF to support innovative approaches to changing the way our housing stock is designed, built and managed.
This event is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and by the West Midlands Housing Officers Group.
ERDF grant is available in most LEP areas currently. The Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP has calls open for gap funding innovative new build low carbon homes and projects involving land remediation and the creation of blue and green infrastructure.
BUILDING A HEALTHY HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE UK
27/11/2017 13:00 – 16:00 Location: B3 2PW
We know that ‘Business as usual’ is not delivering the high quality healthy homes and national housing infrastructure required in the UK.
This event builds on the launch of the interim findings of the SHAP 2017 research in the morning and, in this afternoon session we will look at the progress made on delivering the Bonfield Review findings and on the proposals by Energiesprong UK to build a volume deal for net zero energy homes in the UK.
