Join us for the ERBE Annual Colloquium on 5 Nov 2025 at The Building Centre! This free attendance and in-person event is a fantastic opportunity to network, learn, and engage with the latest research in the field of Energy Resilience and the Built Environment. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out, this colloquium is sure to inspire and educate.
Online registrations have closed and the Colloquium is full.
If you wish to attend please email us, in case of cancellations.
Access the online conference programme and booklet here.
What is the Colloquium?
The annual Colloquium is a whole-day event where our PhD students, academic supervisors, industry partners, and stakeholders come together to hear about and discuss the latest findings in research at the interface of energy and the built environment, to share knowledge and network.
The event is fully catered with breakfast, lunch, and refreshments, followed by drinks and canapés in the evening. You are welcome to attend only part of the day, let us know if that is the case.
PROGRAMME – 5 November 2025 – The Building Centre
Keynote speakers are the former Directors of our LoLo and ERBE Centres for Doctoral Training: Prof Kevin Lomas (Loughborough University) and Prof Robert Lowe (UCL).
10:00 – 10:30 Registration and breakfast refreshments
10:30 – 10:50 Opening address and highlights – Prof. Cliff Elwell (UCL) and Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir (MaREI)
10:50 – 11:35 Final year student presentations: Session 1 – Healthy Indoor Environments and a Just Transition
Presenters and titles – Session 1
- Maha Sohail: Development of a building design process for improving the thermal resilience of non-domestic buildings using ventilative cooling solutions
- Hooman Azad: Application of grey box modelling in a Passivhaus office building in the UK to predict indoor temperature during a heatwave
- Sapna Halai: Future cooling scenarios for UK homes
11:35 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45– 12:15 Poster Session 1 – Healthy Indoor Environments and a Just Transition
12:15 – 13:00 Final year student presentations: Session 2 – New Methods and Models for Decarbonisation
Presenters and titles – Session 2
- Will Markiewicz: The impact of live data streams in digital twins
- Shyam Amrith: Optimising the performance of the building stock
- Marios Kordilas: Carbon and impacts beyond carbon of buildings’ Life Cycle Assessment in light of evolving electricity mixes and climate change
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 14:30 Poster Session 2 – New Methods and Models for Decarbonisation
14:35– 15:20 Final year student presentations: Session 3 – Flexibility and energy resilience
Presenters and titles – Session 3
- Jordan Townsend: The physical understanding of space heating flexibility
- Megan Rush: Assessing the Impact of Residential Electrification on UK LV Networks
- Eva Elali: The digital characterisation of the building stock: automatic façade analysis
15:20 – 15:30 Comfort Break
15:30 – 16:00 Poster Session 3 – Flexibility and energy resilience
16:00 Closing remarks and introduction to keynote speakers
16:05 – 17:05 Keynote speakers: Prof Kevin Lomas and Prof Robert Lowe
17:05 End of conference and thank you – Prof David Allinson (Loughborough University)
17:10 – 18:55 Networking, drinks and food – upstairs gallery