Event Detail
IPI Annual Planning Conference 2012
| Date: | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
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| Location: | Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny |
| Members' Only Event: | No |
The Irish Planning Institute will hold its 34th National Conference on 26TH & 27TH April 2012 in the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny. This year’s conference is entitled PLANNING TO LEAD THE WAY: EMBRACING CHALLENGES & CREATING OPPORTUNITIES
The planning profession is faced with new challenges and opportunities. Planners are best placed to take up the mantle on many of the problems facing Ireland today. Planners and the planning profession need to take the lead in problem solving; use their unique skills to manage different interest groups in order to achieve a better, more sustainable future; bring people and ideas together and drive the profession into a position of leadership. This conference will examine the existing and future context of planning in Ireland and investigate new challenges and emerging opportunities for planners and the planning profession. Particular topics will include ‘unfinished developments’ ‘health and planning’ ‘new perspectives on planning’, ‘planning and new technology’ and ‘planning and flooding’. Confirmed speakers and discussion panelists include:
- Minister Phil Hogan
- Brian Motherway from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
- Michael Walsh from the County and City Manager's Association
- Chris McGarry from the National Asset Management Association (NAMA)
- Mark Adamson from the Office of Public Works
- Andrew Montague Dublin Lord Mayor
- Conor Skehan, MIPI
More details and booking information will be available shortly on the IPI website www.irishplanninginstitute.ie
Better Building - National Conference for a Sustainable Built Environment
| Date: | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
| Time: | 25th April 2012 |
| Location: | Royal Hospital Kilmainham |
| Members' Only Event: | No |
| Cost: | €See website |
| Event Tickets: | http://www.betterbuilding.ie/registration-form |
| Event Website: | http://www.betterbuilding.ie/ |
This far reaching conference investigates the opportunities and challenges for companies working in the green sector. The event takes the format of 12 seminars, with 3 parallel streams of workshops and debates packed into one day featuring leading Irish and international experts, designers, academics, innovators and investors in sustainability for the built environment. The diverse topics discussed aim to converge on the common theme of ‘making the business case for sustainability’, quantifying the economic value of energy and resource efficiency and resilient systems. The conference debates the critical issues facing property, design and construction professionals and showcases studies on exemplar projectsand where sustainable design and decision-making has resulted in a win-win solution for all stakeholders. Expert-led technical workshops will ‘look under the hood’ of sustainability tools to investigate tricks of the trade. An evening social event and facilitated networking session ensures interaction for developing business opportunities, meeting others and exchanging ideas. This event is organised by Éasca, Irish Green Building Council,Cultivate, Sustainable Building Show, The Chartered Institute of Building and the Passive House Association of Ireland.
Primary Care Centre Development Opportunities Conference 2012
| Date: | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| Time: | Thursday 19th April 2012 |
| Location: | Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin |
| Members' Only Event: | No |
| Cost: | €See website |
| Event Tickets: | sarah@cmgevents.ie |
| Event Website: | http://www.cmgevents.ie/ |
The government’s vision for primary care may well represent important new business opportunities for companies and professionals looking to engage directly with the HSE in primary healthcare development. Equally, you may well view the government’s enthusiasm for more privately funded activity in the primary care sector as one of the few real business opportunities to get a return on investment, either through consortia or private investment vehicles.
The Primary Care Centre Development Opportunities Conference 2012 will equip you with the knowledge you will need to fully understand the complexities, the challenges and the opportunities associated with this sector.
This event will provide you with up to the minute information on:
- The government policies and their timeframes.
- Overall statistics and geographical spreads.
- The capital spend programme relating directly to primary care.
- Particular challenges relating to primary care and procurement.
- The serious considerations being given to design and build options.
- Latest cost models and ratios.
- Funding challenges and financial requirements associated with primary care centres.
Programme Highlights
Half Day - 9am To 1pm
Opening remarks from Conference Chairperson
Current policy on primary care centres
- An overview of the HSE’s programme for the roll-out of primary care services and centres.
- How will multi-million euro budgets for primary care centres in 2012 be allocated?
Targets and geographical spread
- What do the statistics reveal about the need for primary care centres?
- Best use of primary care centres and building for future development.
- Where will the spend be allocated throughout the country?
The funding of new primary care centres under the new Capital Spend Programme
- State funding to be targeted at disadvantaged areas – where and how will this be decided?
- Are lenders attitudes more open to funding primary care centres?
- Encouraging the private investor to get involved.
- Managing and controlling risk within the financial model.
The cost of building a primary care centre
- What are the main cost drivers of primary care centres?
- Where do the ‘extra costs’ creep in?
- What can be learnt from previous cost models for typical building types and sizes?
- Avoiding the typical cost overrun – how?
- Balancing cost with adaptability.
Setting new standards in primary care building and design
- Balancing the form and function argument.
- Getting the balance right between designing complex, technology-driven centres for health within the cost parameters.
- Future-proofing energy efficiency when building primary care centres for the future.
- Quick review of the advances in heating, cooling and water management systems.
Procurement pitfalls when building and designing primary care centres
- Effective procurement strategies for primary care centres.
- Where do companies trip up in the tendering and procurement process?
- How is green scored within contract award criteria?