Archetech Issue 24 2016 | Page 33

The Building Health & Wellness stream, sponsored by SaintGobain, focuses on a number of innovations which are emerging to help measure and enhance wellbeing in buildings. SaintGobain have created the Multi-Comfort standard – a way of designing sustainable, healthy and comfortable buildings that also achieve the Passivhaus standard in energy efficiency. The first UK project built to the standard, a new sports and drama hall for King’s Hawford Junior School in Worcester, designed by Associated Architects, is close to completion. As well as promoting high levels of energy efficiency and thermal comfort in the school, the standard focuses on audio, indoor air and visual comfort to create a quality learning environment for teachers and students. Saint-Gobain technical director Mark Allen and residential sector director Stacey Temprell will be outlining the Multi-Comfort concept and the story of the debut UK project as part of the Building Health & Wellness seminar programme on 7 June. Full details of all other seminar streams are now published on the Vision website, where readers can also register for a free of charge visitor pass to attend the event, giving access to all seminars, the exhibition and networking events. Vision has also agreed later opening hours for 2016 – as some busy Architects would like to visit the event in the early evening. Opening hours on the 7th June will be 10am until 9pm, with the exhibition continuing into the evening after the main seminar programmes finish. Drinks will be served to all exhibitors and visitors from 5.30pm, who will be able to browse the exhibition, attend the popular Pecha Kucha sessions organised by the NLA and participate in other exclusive evening events to be announced. Vision London takes place from 7-8 June 2016 at Olympia London. Register for your free visitor pass today at www.visionlondon.com/register