IHHWC2020: Building Homes for Tomorrow Croke Park Dublin, Ireland, September 21-25, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.ihhwc-dublin2020.ie |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ihhwc2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 28, 2020 |
Submission deadline | February 28, 2020 |
Full Papers | May 15, 2020 |
Final Papers | July 10, 2020 |
Posters / Presentations | July 10, 2020 |
HomeBond www.homebond.ie is hosting the 15th International Housing and Home Warranty Conference (IHHWC) in Dublin, September 2020; partnering with the International Housing and Home Warranty Association (IHHWA), the International Housing Association (IHA) and Technological University (TU) Dublin.
IHHWA and IHA members include representatives of warranty and insurance providers and house building industry organizations from around the world who have a common goal to promote building standards, consumer protection and address common issues related to housing and home building at national and international level.
The Conference will bring together hundreds of construction industry experts & professionals, academics and decision-makers from Ireland, UK and around the world; to discuss challenges and opportunities for the provision of new homes, warranty provision and consumer protection. Academic and Non-Academic Proceedings will be addressed at Plenary, Concurrent & Academic sessions across 3 no. business days; and Networking & Social Events, Excursions, Gala Dinner and a Golf Outing @ Druids Glen (Irish Open Championship Course) are included in the programme. Best Paper Awards and Best Poster Awards will be presented at the Conference, and submissions are invited from all organizations as well from academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Abstracts / Papers / Presentations addressing housing policy/ planning/ affordability/ economics/ finance/ research/ sustainability & building control/ regulations/ codes/ defects/ quality/ insurance/ warranty / liability/ innovation/ technology in residential construction
- Infographic Posters describing housing studies / market research/ construction defects / risk control/ energy efficiency / quality management/ digital economy/ construction products/ market research
The following Themes & Sub-Themes will be addressed during the Conference:
Theme 1: Building Control Enforcement & Inspections – Global Best Practice Principles
The Building Control Regulations 1997 to 2018 require owners, builders, and registered construction professionals to demonstrate through the Statutory Register of Building Control Activity that the works or building concerned have been designed and constructed in compliance with Building Regulations. These Regulations apply generally to new buildings and to existing buildings which undergo an extension, a material alteration or a material change of use. The new legislation requires mandatory design certification, lodgement of plans and particulars, builders supervision and certification, mandatory inspection by an appointed Assigned Certifier with inter-reliance on ancillary certification by key parties involved in the building process.
Local Authorities are designated as Building Control Authorities under the Building Control Acts 1990 to 2014 and monitor compliance with Building Regulations and have strong powers of inspection and enforcement under the Acts. Responsibility for compliance rests at all times with the owner of the proposed building or works, and with any builder or designer engaged by the owner.
The Building Control Act 2007 restricts the use of the protected titles of Architect, Building Surveyor and Quantity Surveyor to those registered under the Act. It is an offence to use such titles unless registered to do so.
Theme 2: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) – Modular, Off-Site, Smart Buildings, Sustainability
MMC systems deliver speed, certainty and convenience and can achieve cost savings, high standards, and are generally designed using the latest technology. Modular and off-site construction has become a market leader and an exemplar method of delivering quality buildings from houses, to schools and hospitals.
Building in a controlled environment reduces waste through avoidance upstream rather than diversion downstream. This, along with improved quality management throughout the construction process and significantly less on-site activity and disturbance, inherently promotes sustainability, high quality, innovative, efficient, cost-effective, and shorter time to completion.
Theme 3: Affordable Construction – Build to Rent, Build to Sell, Co-Living, Social Housing
Build to Rent describes the practice of delivering purpose-built residential rental accommodation and associated amenity space that is designed with the sole purpose of being used as long-term rental accommodation and professionally owned and managed by an institutional corporate landlord.
The build to rent sector also incorporates co-living / communal / shared accommodation, and these rental-only developments are subject to centralised management arrangements, on a specified long-term basis, where generally individual housing units may not be separately sold for a specified period.
Social housing provision in Ireland is in accordance with Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended), of which shared accommodation is exempt. Part V of the Act provides, for example, consideration for both the existing need and the likely future need for social housing, the need to ensure that housing is available for persons who have different levels of income and the need to counteract undue segregation in housing between persons of different social backgrounds.
Theme 4: After Grenfell: Building a Safer Future – Consumer Confidence & Culture of Compliance
The Grenfell Tower fire represents the greatest loss of life in a residential fire in a century. Whilst the Metropolitan Police investigation seeks to ensure that justice is provided to the bereaved, the survivors and those affected by the fire, and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry seeks to understand the events of the night of the fire and its causes, the UK Government has undertaken a far-reaching programme of work to ensure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe and feel safe, now and in the future.
The fire safety investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire, carried out by the Expert Group were appointed to examine the circumstances surrounding the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017. This Group focused on the fire protection measures in place on the night of the fire, and provided conclusions as to, the extent to which they failed to control the spread of fire and smoke, and the extent to which they contributed to the speed at which the fire spread. It is inevitable that this investigation will impact on Building Regulations for both low and high-rise developments, and may well impact on building standards / requirements internationally.
Theme 5: Construction Liability & Insurance Requirements – International Best Practice
Traditional legal concepts of professional liability and duty of care based on professional competence and accepted practice are undergoing a major change, as end-users expect to be provided not only with some kind of quality or performance labelling, but also with an actual warranty that the delivered product fits the intended purpose (Szigeti and Davis, 2002). At present, many organizations in several countries have established end-user protection schemes against building defects that vary substantially in terms of the effective degree of end-user protection and overall sophistication (Lavers, 1999). These protection schemes are based on end-user compensation whenever there is a need to repair damaged buildings.
Sub-Themes (but not limited to):
(a) Assessing Materials & Systems – Construction Product Regulations, Risk Control
(b) Building Control & Regulations – Improving Compliance / Minimising Risk / Insurance
(c) Construction Defects / Quality – Lessons Learned, Cost Studies
(d) Construction Codes & Standards – A Better Understanding
(e) Cost Control – Survival in Challenging Times
(f) Customer Relations – Getting it Right in a Changing World
(g) Digital Economy – Delivery of Infrastructure
(h) Energy Efficient Ventilation – Compliance Risk & Rewards
(i) Flood Risk Management – Construction Risk, Insurance, Planning
(j) Health & Safety – Culture, Policy, Performance, Systems
(k) High Density Urban Living – Sustainable Living, Costs & Benefits, Policy
(l) Housing Affordability – Private or Public Capital, Development/ Mortgage Finance, Regulations
(m) Housing Economics & Policy – The Influence of Politics
(n) Housing Finance – Understanding Regulatory Controls
(o) Housing Market Research – Affordability, Modelling, Sustainability
(p) Housing Provision – Multi-Generational Living, Age Friendly Homes, Ageing in Place
(q) Innovation & Technology – Design the Main Attraction, Futurology
(r) Infrastructure & Services – Project Delivery Systems, Cost, Compliance
(s) Nearly Zero Energy Buildings – Achieving Cost Optimal Solutions
(t) Planning & Development – Demand, Density, Design
(u) Quality Management – Certification of Products & Systems
(v) Stakeholder Competency – Continuing Professional Development, Customer Confidence
(w) Sustainability – Construction Works & Facilities Management
(x) Warranty, Indemnity, Insurance – Current Trends & Future Expectations
Committees
Program Committee
Scientific Committee
Prof. Lloyd Scott
The Scientific Committee will be convened and managed by Dr Lloyd Scott, PhD who is Head Knowledge in Sustainable Construction Research Group and a Researcher and PhD supervisor in School of Surveying and Construction Management at TU Dublin. He is also Professor of Practice at the Haskell & Irene Lemon Construction Science Division, College of Architecture, University of Oklahoma; the Vice- Chairman Association of Researchers in Construction Management; and is the Conference Chairman 2020 @ Glasgow Caledonian University and previously the Conference Chairman 2019 @ SEEDS International conference University of Suffolk.
Awards Committee
Kevin Sheridan
EurBE MSc CEnv, FRICS, FIET, FCIOB, MICE, FSCSI, FCABE, FIBCI, FCInstCES, CBuildE
Kevin is Chair of the NSAI Construction Standards Consultative Committee and is a professional member of the Construction Industry Registration Ireland Board (CIRI). He is a past Chairman of the Society of Chartered Surveyors, Building Surveying Division (SCSI) and a former member of the SCSI Council. He is a former Secretary General and Past President of the Association of European Experts in Building and Construction (AEEBC) and also a past president of the Irish Building Control Institute. He is also the immediate past chairman of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Republic of Ireland region) and is a member of the Architects Registration Board, (Admissions Board). He is a Chartered Building Engineer, Chartered Construction Manager, Chartered Project Management Surveyor and Chartered Environmentalist. He serves on various C.I.C. working groups including BCAR / Code of Practice implementation committees. He is a former Irish Branch Chairman of CIOB and a former Trustee. He serves as a judge for the CIOB Construction Manager of the Year Awards (Ireland) and the Irish Building & Design awards and is a former member of the Building Surveyors Registration Board.
Organizing committee
For details of the organising committee please refer to the conference website www.ihhwc-dublin2020.ie and the Official Partners are:
- International Housing and Home Warranty Association (IHHWA)
- International Housing Association (IHA)
- TU Dublin
- HomeBond
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@homebond.ie