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Eco Building Training

Bricks and Bread Sustainable Living Centre Eco building training
Our own training course, not accredited but based on real experience and sessions taught by leading local experts

email us to reserve your place on training courses available in July - held on Thursday afternoon/evenings
(Can also be booked to be held at your own premises for group bookings of more than 5 people)
£20 each session - FREE training places available if you are unemployed or running a local building firm

- Presentations, workshops and practical help from experts who work on eco building sites
- Learn to understand the systems, techniques and issues involved in this type of building work
- Product demonstrations at every session
- find out how to reduce energy, water and waste from the built environment
- network with other local businesses trying to do this too
- certificate for delegates who attend four sessions

8th July - fully booked
15th July - fully booked
22nd July - fully booked

29th July - limited spaces available
The reality of eco building - talk by Trudy Thompson
Two sessions available - 2pm start which ends at 4pm - or 6pm start which ends at 8pm
A 1 hour presentation with lots of pictures from the 11 new builds and 22 retrofit projects she has managed for private clients
- this will give anyone who is interested in the subject a really honest overview of the issues and opportunities from building sustainably
- Following hour starts with a question and answer session then networking opportunities with refreshments

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Parity Projects’ Eco-Refurbishment Courses

BTEC modules - after six modules you will have gained the equivalent of one full BTEC.
Each module costs £270 with certification or £200 without certification.

Reducing water demand in domestic houses
Tuesday 20th July 2010 or Thursday 9th December

Techniques for significantly reducing energy consumption in existing buildings
Thursday 2nd September 2010

Loft insulation for all construction types
Tuesday 28th September

The business case for significantly reducing energy consumption in existing buildings
Tuesday 12th October

Building regulations for low energy domestic refurbishment
Tuesday 26th October

Retrofitting ground floor insulation for all construction types
Tuesday 9th November

Air-tightness and thermal bridging in existing buildings
Thursday 2nd December

Installing insulation onto solid walls in domestic houses
TBA

For more information or to book onto this event please email us

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Carbon Auditing Training

Understanding energy and carbon auditing - principles and methods

Wednesday, 7 July - also 29th September 2010 and 19th January 2011

Presented by Jae Mather of the Carbon Free Group

FREE TRAINING PLACES AVAILABLE IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED, OR RUNNING A SMALL BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH EAST REGION

For more information check out this pdf or to book onto this event please email us -

Aims: This course aims to give learners an introduction to the principles and practices behind energy and carbon auditing for those who are new to this field or in the early stages of being involved. This course aims to provide a practical foundation for those needing to develop skills and understanding of energy and carbon auditing for buildings and property portfolios.

The aim is for learners to understand the methodologies which can be used reliably to measure energy use and carbon emissions, to understand the cost implications of various measures that can be taken to reduce energy use and carbon emissions, and to develop strategies to achieve low or zero carbon building performance in the medium or longer term.

Course Duration: 6 hours (in 1 day)

Course Content:
This is a theory-based course that will cover:
Practical examples of monitoring, evaluating, re-representing and consolidating data
Collating of results and formulating the presentation of data
Review of three examples of energy and carbon audits
Typical audit calculations
Outline of an energy and carbon audit process for a real world situation.

Certification: Participants will be sent a certificate of attendance following completion of this course.

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Bricks and Bread Sustainable Living Centre - Low carbon business training
Our own training course, not accredited but based on real experience and sessions taught by leading local experts
email us to reserve your place/find out more about July events

(held on Tuesday afternoon and evenings)
£175 to attend 4 x 2 hour sessions or £50 if you attend one event at a time
(Can also be booked to be held at your own premises for group bookings of more than 5 people)
FREE TRAINING PLACES AVAILABLE IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED OR RUNNING A SMALL BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH EAST REGION

- Presentations, workshops and practical help from experts who run low carbon businesses
- Learn to identify and reduce carbon emissions from a business
- find out how to reduce energy, water and waste
- network with other local businesses trying to do this too
- certificate to show commitment to reduce co2 in their business

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Advice services for Energy saving / Green building
- for homeowners and the building trade

Free advice clinic
held every Saturday at the Centre for local residents/builders - half an hour of free advice
- you need to book in advance for a place on the clinic - email us with your details to book

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Home/site Visit
£65 hour - £15 reduction for members of our loyalty card scheme
On site consultancy visits to your property are available 7 days a week
- for homeowners and the building trade
- expert advice from local specialists with years of experience in eco building
- practical advice about retrofitting your home to low carbon standards
- Advice on insulation, renewable energy systems, air tightness, ventilation, water and waste saving at home
- written report produced with solutions and links to local suppliers

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Self sufficiency skills training

Every Saturday £50 a session (each session is normally 2-4 hours depending on activity)

Training workshops and visits to local producers

-Events in March will help you to prepare to become self sufficient this year
-Practical skills from local producers and farmers
-Learn how to grow your own food, keep livestock, make food and drink from your produce
-Meet local people who live a self sufficient lifestyle

To book onto the next session or for a list of the available events with places then email us with your details

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Guest Speaking external events

Trudy Thompson, regularly gives talks to organisations about her experiences as an eco builder and as Founder of the Bricks and Bread Sustainable Living Centre. To book onto one of these events please email the centre with your details and the event you would like to attend.

To book her to speak at commercial events the cost is £500, for free community and social enterprise events please call 01252 314060 or email us to enquire about making a booking.

Latest article written about Trudy can be found here - page 1, page 2

Guest Speaking events this month

5th July 2010

10am - Trudy Thompson giving a talk to Metropolitan Police Officers at Earls Court - sorry this is not an open event for the public.

3pm - Trudy Thompson speaking at CIC Association meeting at CAN offices in London
CIC Forum - CAN Mezzanine, 49-51 East Road, London N1 6AH
Monday 5th July, 2010 from 10:00am - any social enterprises or people interested in setting up a CIC can attend this event - email us or check out this pdf or the CIC Association website http://www.cicassociation.org.uk or their events page on their Ning site http://cicassoc.ning.com/events for more information

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14th July 2010

Trudy Thompson speaking at this event in Brighton at Sustainable Careers Explored

This one day event is aimed at exploring the opportunities that are arising in careers in
sustainability across a wide spectrum of industries. Sustainability has become a
mainstream concept in the last few years and all aspects of the job market are now
influenced in a variety of ways by sustainability.

The event is designed around looking in detail at specific industries. It is also designed
in a way to understand the bigger picture in sustainability. Immediate, short term and
long term outlooks will be addressed, with insights from key professionals who work in
all aspects of sustainability, from the Chief Executive level to practical individuals that
have forged new paths in mainstream fields.

The events are designed around interactivity with the audience. Presentations range
from 20-30 minutes with 10-15 minutes of Questions and Answers immediately following.

FREE to all individuals based in the South East region - (conditions apply. Lunch and refreshments will be provided)
How to book: email your name, company and contact details to us or check out this pdf for more info

Also being held on 22nd September at Pines Calyx (Dover, Kent)

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Recent past Speaking events

Trudy Thompson is a keynote speaker at this event - Bricks and Bread Network discounted ticket price

Sustainability and the Built Environment
a Design Minded and Business Junction seminar and networking evening in association with Veer Magazine
Wednesday 9 June, 6–8.30pm

Material Lab, 10 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 8BB.

Gain valuable insight and experience about this fast developing sector and find out about the opportunities and challenges it could hold for businesses within the built environment at this networking event at Material Lab’s Central London studio.

Three informed speakers will kick off the session before a couple of hours of informal networking with around 60 design, construction and related professionals from the sector sharing knowledge and developing new business contacts.

Delegates’ list, drinks and light supper included.
Bricks and Breads network £20. Non members £35. VAT N/A.

Event registration - http://designmindedjune.eventbrite.com/

Speakers
Clive Hall, CEO Eventure Media
A Sustainable Future for the Built Environment – an introduction to the bigger picture and what it all means for us.

Eventure Media is an events company that is devoted to developing and supporting the deployment of clean technology innovation and solutions throughout the UK and Ireland under the Rushlight brand and cleantechincubator.co.uk.
http://www.rushlightevents.com/ <http://www.rushlightevents.com/>

Trudy Thompson, Bricks And Bread
'The reality of eco building' - how ten years of running her own eco building company led Trudy to create the social enterprise Bricks and Bread.
Bricks and Bread, Sustainable Living Centre and network of experts, offers advice, training and a resource of specialist building services and eco products to businesses and consumers who want to build, work and live sustainably.
http://www.bricksandbread.com/ <http://www.bricksandbread.com/>

Ben Marshall, Material Lab
Sustainability in Practice - an introduction to Material Lab.

Material Lab is a material resource centre funded by Johnson Tiles and has been developed specifically for architects and designers. The studio has representation from over 200 companies and is intended to provide a “one stop shop’ for materials.
http://www.material-lab.co.uk

Design Minded and Business Junction present this evening in association with Veer Magazine
http://www.readveer.com

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Special Invitation -
Surrey Network of the RSA Fellowship invites you to visit the Bricks and Bread Sustainable Living Centre
11th June - 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Members of the Bricks and Bread Loyalty Card, local companies who support activities at the Centre and any social enterprises are welcome to attend this special invitiation only event as our guest, even if they are not a Fellow of the RSA - just book onto RSA Surrey Network website, the link is below - any problems making a booking on this site, or any questions you want to ask us about this event, please email us at centre@bricksandbread.com

Trudy Thompson FRSA will give a presentation about why Bricks and Bread, a social enterprise, was created and how it became a hub for sustainable business enterprises in the local area. Fellows will be given a group tour of the facilities and an overview of what happens at the Centre. Trudy is coordinating further meetings in the local area, building on the principles agreed at the March 2010 Surrey Network at the Lightbox, Woking.

There is a great deal of drive to ensure Fellows are able to collaborate and the Centre currently has a number of projects in which Fellows are encouraged to share their knowledge, skills and contacts:
• Creating a peer to peer learning network for social enterprises and entrepreneurs creating low carbon businesses
• Develop an apprenticeship/work experience scheme for young people in the South East
• Fund subsidised green skills training courses for all ages, backgrounds and abilities
• Supporting the growth of construction waste reuse centres in the South East region

There will be refreshments available throughout the evening and lots of opportunities to network with other Fellows.

Thought you would all like to see this on the RSA Surrey Network - This is the beginning of a major series of events that the RSA will be supporting us to find Fellows who will work with us and help us grow

For more information or to book onto this event please click here

http://surreynetwork.eventbrite.com/

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