Estate Scale RenewablesGenerating Sustainability from Scotland’s Land Assets

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:Jamie Williamson, Managing Director, Alvie Estate

20 NOVEMBER 2012 Grosvenor Hilton Hotel, Edinburgh

SPONSORED BY SUPPORTING PARTNER PRODUCED BY

Jim MacDonald, Chief Executive, Architecture and Design Scotland

David Lowes, Managing Partner, Glenfalloch Estate

Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) is Scotland’s champion for excellence in placemaking, architecture and planning.

A+DS is an Executive NDPB of the Scottish Government that aims to support the creation of well-designed environments that are ultimately, places where people want to be. We champion the highest standards in architecture and placemaking across all sectors, advocating a better understanding of the importance of quality design in both the public and private sectors.

A+DS works through a number of established programmes to champion excellence and advocate the benefits of best practice in design. Our programmes are Urbanism, Design Review, Sust., Access to Architecture, Schools Design and Healthcare Design.

Sust is a programme within A+DS that is dedicated to sustainable design in architecture and the built environment. Sust aims to raise public awareness of sustainable design and the contribution it can make in delivering a sustainable future, and improve an understanding of sustainable design for those commissioning new buildings.

Based at A+DS’s Glasgow offices at The Lighthouse in Glasgow, we have recently expanded our physical resources through the opening of a sustainable Materials Library to promote ongoing activities in the construction sector and to complement our existing online Green and Funding Directories. This event is one of a series aimed at bringing together those who need information, support and resources, with those who can help them to deliver.

The Scottish Government’s Agri-Renewables Strategy has a potentially huge impact on Scotland’s energy sector and rural economies, with far-reaching benefits for the whole country.

Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs has himself stated:

“Scotland is currently experiencing a renewables revolution and I want to see farmers, crofters and land managers working with local communities to ensure they grasp the benefits for their businesses and the nation.”

This event, supported by Scottish Land and Estates, will examine the renewables market and the opportunity for estate-scale programmes, the technologies available, pioneering projects which have already been undertaken by Scotland’s land owners and estate managers, skills and work force readiness and, crucially, funding.

SESSION ONE Present and future marketsAs a nation with tremendous natural resources and land assets, Scotland and Scotland’s land owners possess the potential to be at the forefront of a renewable energy revolution. In this session we will explore the potential scope of the Scotland’s renewable energy market and how our country and our landscapes will react and adapt to this revolution.

SESSION TWO Estate Scale DevelopmentsWith some remarkable projects already underway, the importance of planning and preparation for the utilisation of our land assets cannot be underestimated. In this second session we look at this preparation and hear from Estate Managers who have first-hand experience of challenges and rewards of estate scale renewables.

SESSION THREE Generating success for the futureAs with any growing sector, new challenges will emerge and innovative solutions must be found to generate opportunity. In our final session, we look at a variety of these key issues, including planning, training and funding.

Estate Scale Renewables

SESSION ONEPresent and Future Markets

9:25 Introduction from the Chair Lori McElroy, Sust. Programme Director, A+DS

9:35 Opening address TBC

9:50 Our landscapes and their responses to pressureProf David Miller, the James Hutton Institute• Scottish Land Use

Strategy• The implications of

change and scales• Interpreting and

assessing change

10:10 Vision for the futureJim MacDonald, Chief Executive, Architecture and Design Scotland

10:30 Q&A

10:50 Break

SESSION TWOEstate Scale Developments

11:10 Designing Micro & Macro resource efficient dynamics into community based plansNoel Whittingham, Head of Sustainable and Environmental Developments, Mitie

11:30 Alvie Estate case study Jamie Williamson, Managing Director, Alvie Estate• Choosing the right

technology• Cost efficiency• Business planning

11:50 Glenfalloch Estate case study David Lowes, Managing Partner, Glenfalloch Estate• Environmental and

planning issues • Finance and construction • Benefits to the estate,

the local community and natural heritage objectives

12:10 Panel Session: • Jamie Williamson,

Alvie Estate• Kelly McIntyre,

Fintry Development Trust• David Lowes,

Glenfalloch Estate• Noel Whittingham, Mitie • Neil Phillips, Positive

Solutions (Glasgow)• Representative from

Wright Johnston MacKenzie

12:35 Lunch

Session 3Generating success for the future

13:25 Strategic planning for land use: the opportunities of climate change burdens Courtney Hyde Peyton, Thirdwave Scotland Ltd• A new legal mechanism• Supporting renewables

today• Protecting Scottish assets

for future generations

13:50 Getting the right people now and in the futureDarah Zahran, Energy partnerships Manager, Skills Development Scotland• Scotland’s Skills and

Energy Investment Plan• Tackling the skills shortage• Working with industry

14: 15 Financing and managing renewables projects Douglas Graham, Finance Director, NCM Finance• Structuring of Investment • Project management • Time scales

14:35 Looking forward to further investment through CARES Eric Dodd, Head of Operations, Community Energy Scotland

14:55 Q&A

15:15 Closing address Lori McElroy, Sust. Programme Director, A+DS

15:30 Close

Agenda 20 NOVEMBER 2012 Grosvenor Hilton Hotel, Edinburgh

08:45 – 09:25 Registration and reception

SPONSORED BY SUPPORTING PARTNER PRODUCED BY

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