CIBSE Technical Symposium 2026
March 2026 at Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of the CIBSE Technical Symposium 2026. Please select a date or location to show only sessions on that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view. For more information and to register your place please visit, https://www.cibse.org/symposium
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Daily Overview |
Opening Address by Dr. Anastasia Mylona, CIBSE Technical Director, followed by a Welcome from CIBSE Vice President, Mike Burton.
Keynote Session (incl Q&A) by Professor Catherine Noakes, University of Leeds
Integrating science, policy and practice for healthy and sustainable buildings
Professor Cath Noakes OBE is the Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation and Professor of Environmental Engineering for Buildings at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a chartered engineer with substantial experience leading research into buildings and health, particularly around ventilation, air quality and infection control. She has worked closely with policy, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, including contributing to UK SAGE committee, NHS guidance on healthcare environments, WHO groups, and work with the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Airborne infection risk in marquees
Limits to the Effectiveness of Ventilation for Reducing Airborne Infection Risk Due to Widely Varying Emissions
“We have to freeze or be deafened”: A survey on the effectiveness of CO₂ alarms in university spaces.
Heat Network Metering and Monitoring Standard: Regulating metering systems within UK heat networks
Energy security, reliability and net zero investment in a heat network portfolio: Prioritising with limited data
Setting Resilience and Equipment Condition Standards for Heat Networks
Setting Standards for Pressure in Heat Networks
Passivhaus delivery lessons from two UK projects
From Office Block to Award-Winning Residence: St Crispin’s House Champions Student Wellness
Beyond Certification: Designing for Brain Health and Wellbeing through Certified Environments
A hybrid approach to predicting indoor temperature of residential heat pumps using system identification and physics-informed neural networks.
Air source heat pump sizing: a sensitivity analysis
Heat pump noise in schools: influence of heat pump placement on noise exposure
Hear from guest speaker Bill McQuade, ASHRAE President, followed by a Panel Discussion chaired by Vanda Dimitriou (Loughborough University) and Bill McQuade (ASHRAE President).
Transforming 1920-1940s housing to minimise energy use and optimise comfort
More than technical: towards people-centric practices in historic building retrofits
Rural Renewable Energy Towns for sustainable performance fit for 2050
Navigating Complexity to Unlock Sustainable Building Reuse
The circularity potential of the Stadium building: existing reuse versus newbuild design for disassembly explored through recent case studies and interviews with their designers
Unlocking Circularity in MEP and HVAC Systems: The Relevance of Digital Construction
Sustainable workplace: Enhancing Health & Wellbeing through Circular Design
Empirical Methods for Measuring Thermal Responsiveness in Buildings: Impacts of Monitoring Design on Short-Term Flexibility Assessment
Characterisation of dynamic building physics during overheating tests under controlled conditions
MEZeroE Open Innovation Test Bed for building envelope products: fostering the collaboration between industry and research
A High-fidelity Multi-Building Simulation Platform for Reinforcement Learning-based Coordinated Control Strategies Training and Benchmarking
Integrating Surrogate Modeling and LLMs for Data-Driven Life-Cycle Carbon Assessment in Building Retrofitsarning Approaches
An AI-Powered Feedback Ecosystem for Circular and Carbon-Conscious Building Design
From Symbolism to Sustainability: Post-Occupancy Daylight Evaluation of the National Assembly Mosque in Bangladesh
Data-Driven Optimisation of Net Zero Energy Residential Buildings in Dhaka: Integrating Evolutionary Algorithms and Vernacular Wisdom in High-Density Urban Contexts
Sense of Balcony: A Conceptual Model of Sense of Place in Housing Threshold Spaces
Beyond Simplistic Assumptions: The Critical Need for Advanced Infiltration Modelling in Dynamic Thermal Simulations
Limitations of Compliance Modelling in ‘Smart Building’ Evolution
A Modelica-based Model for Dynamically Simulating the Energy Performance Degradation of Closed-loop Hydronic Heating Systems
Dynamic thermal modelling of roof insulation effects in a buried service reservoir: a UK case study
Inclusive and Low-Carbon Mechanical Retrofit in Healthcare
Planning whole house energy retrofits in social housing – investigating stakeholder needs to ensure effective and efficient decision making
Internal Stakeholder Perspectives on Retrofit in the Museum Sector
Where air conditioning is essential - Raising a red flag ten times
Assessing overheating risks of UK buildings and severity of health impacts
Find out more and register via https://www.cibse.org/symposium
Please arrive in good time to receive your delegate badge. There will be refreshments served on arrival.