The Group organizes a number of events throughout the year, often in collaboration with academic, industry or policy partners.
All Party Parliamentary Group Meeting – Driving Integration: Healthy Homes and Buildings
20th March 2018
Supported by Gas Safety Trust, LABC, UCL Policy and UKIEG
Venue: Boothroyd Room, House of Commons, Westminster, London, SW1A OAA
This joint APPG meeting aimed to draw together those interested in the broad problems of the indoor environment and to find new ways of coordinating activity in the field. This important parliamentary roundtable brought together members of Parliament, Government decision-makers, industry experts and academics to discuss how to remove the policy barriers to tackling unhealthy indoor environments.
The full press release can be found here. A summary briefing and the full report of this meeting is available.
Report Launch – Healthy Indoor Environments, Challenges and Opportunities for Policy Makers – Summary of a Policy Workshop
26th April 2017
Recognising the cross-cutting nature of healthy indoor environments, and the significant challenge in achieving policy coordination, the UKIEG – with support from the Gas Safety Trust, Policy Connect and Professor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff – organised a one-day workshop, held in London on 14th July 2016. The meeting brought together 15 attendees from different government departments, agencies, All-Party Parliamentary Groups and sponsor organisations. The discussion addressed:
a) issues and priorities from the perspectives of different government departments and agencies;
b) opportunities and challenges presented in addressing this issue;
c) whether better coordination might be required and, if so, how this could be achieved.
A summary briefing and the full report of this report was presented at an event organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Healthy Homes and Buildings held on the 4th of July 2017.
ASBP event: Healthy Buildings – the role of products
October 2016, Create Centre, Bristol
ASBP event to be co-hosted with the Green Register.
Cold Weather Plan Seminar
19th September
London, Friends meeting house, Euston
Details will be circulated closer to the event.
UKIEG Policy Workshop on Indoor Environment
July 2016,
The UKIEG Committee has secured funding from Gas Safety Trust (http://www.gassafetytrust.org/), to facilitate a policy workshop on the 14th July 2016, on the multi-faceted nature of indoor environments, health and wellbeing. Attendance is by invitation only. A Report will be produced and shared with our members in due course.
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