Adaptive reuse of existing buildings - June 2025
Date & Time

11 June 2025
10:00 - 17:30 BST

Location

47-58 Bastwick St, London, EC1V 3PS
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Price

Member early booking: £295 + VAT
Member: £335 + VAT
Standard: £445 + VAT

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Adaptive reuse of existing buildings - June 2025

Adaptive reuse of existing buildings - June 2025

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Date & Time

11 June 2025
10:00 - 17:30 BST

Location

47-58 Bastwick St, London, EC1V 3PS
View on Google Maps

Price

Member early booking: £295 + VAT
Member: £335 + VAT
Standard: £445 + VAT

Early booking discount

Available until one month prior

This practical course helps structural engineers to confidently approach a refurbishment or reuse project, looking at the initial steps to understand an existing structure, how to apply basic conservation principles and the design implications and considerations.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Identify a range of different materials that may be found in existing buildings

  • Demonstrate knowledge of some of the typical defects that might be found in different materials/ages of construction

  • Ask the right questions and take practical steps to assess an existing structures condition and loading capacities

  • Address robustness and disproportionate collapse in your designs

  • Think holistically about reuse as part of a wider sustainability discussion

Intended for

  • Graduate to experienced structural engineers looking to build confidence when working on reuse or refurbishment projects.  

Trainers

Gavin Knowles

Gavin Knowles is a lecturer at the University of Bath and prior to this has worked in practice as a Chartered structural engineer. His previous projects including many education and office buildings, along with conservation and refurbishment projects, interweaved with diverse structures, such as rammed chalk-walled houses, recycled material stages at WOMAD Festival and the odd sculpture. He now teaches Structural Design, Conservation and leads on student design projects.

Rachael De’Ath

Rachael De’Ath has more than 20 years of design experience, working for Arup and more recently Marbas as well as 3 years lecturing at the University of Bristol teaching design and has continued her role as a visiting lecture. She has a broad range of experience but prefers to work on existing buildings where she uses her skills and experience to reimagine the existing structure into something new. She was named as one of the Women’s Engineering Society’s ‘Top 50 female engineers’ in 2018 and is an active member of her local IStructE branch committee.

Contact

Email - [email protected]

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