The ZERO Carbon Design series has been developed by Ross Donaldson to help accelerate the capacity for meeting the enormous challenges brought about by climate change. To meet the critical challenge for a zero-carbon economy, it is increasingly accepted that the target for a zero-carbon construction industry must be 2030. Given a great number of buildings can take upwards of five years from inception to completion, this means we must all be ready to design to zero carbon parameters by 2025.

This 1 point free informal CPD - Design for Energy Demand Reduction provides an introduction to the lecture series intended to provide practical guidelines and case study insights for practitioners.

Many thanks to Ross Donaldson who initiated this course and managed its development.

On completion of this series participants should be able to:

• Describe what net zero is and articulate a suitable process of achieving net zero practices
  
• Identify the fundamental concepts of energy demand optimisation
  
• Demonstrate an understanding of how various performance targets can be used to verify good design
  
• List ways in which design can contribute to energy efficiency
  
• Explain the interaction of building design with the choices made for energy supply to the building
  
• Determine how building design in one climactic zone or another might fundamentally alter how you approach the energy solution to it
  
• Differentiate the balance of grid, storage and renewable supply between different projects based on their climactic zones