Following our regular Management meeting we will be joined by Kieran Riddell of Marsh, Riddell, Gibson to explain how we can better meet energy performance targets in our designs.

… and its ECAN’s 28th Birthday!, a chance to celebrate and reflect on how much we have grown, and where we are going with our new Chair, Kevin MacKenzie.

In the morning we will visit the Scottish Lime Centre Trust to understand their work and how we can better incorporate lime products into our work.

In the afternoon we will visit Vantage Farm by Grant Bulloch. The project is a self build and works are ongoing, so please bring your PPE including site boots and hard hats.

10.00 Brief Management Meeting with an update on the ECAN Future initiative

10.15 Robert Campbell of RIAS Practice Services will talk to us about the Scottish Conditions of Appointment of an Architects Small Project Version 2024. 

11.30 Niall Hedderman will talk about his experience with Real Life Architecture, strategic things a practice should consider before getting into social media, and technical info on how to make videos.  .

If you are a non ECAN member who would like to attend, please call 07753766342

10am: Anual General Meeting

11am: Management Meeting

11.30 Biodiversity and NPF4: Catherine Cumming of City of Edinburgh Planning will talk to us about Biodiversity in relation to changes to Planninglegislation

If you are a non ECAN member who would like to attend, please call 07753766342

10am: Discussion event led by Marc Haslam, drawing on results of survey of members on the future purpose of ECAN.

If you are a non ECAN member who would like to attend, please call 07753766342

10am: Management Meeting

10.30 Introduction to Sustainability Essentials for Built Environment by the Green Urbanist, Ross O’Ceallaigh.

11.45   Workshop on a possible ‘grey list’ of people that ECAN members may want to work with.

13.00   Close.

If you are a non ECAN member who would like to attend, please call 07753766342

Christmas Lunch + Show and tell

Event Space at BrewDog Lothian Road

This event is a members only event.

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10am: Management Meeting

10.30 Alan McAulay of the Scottish Building Standards Hub will talk to us about the establishment of this new initiative, discuss forthcoming regulatory changes, and take any questions we have.

11.45 Practice RIsks: a discussion on issues that are of risk to practice:

-              Contract Power: The power of construction contracts in a contracting construction industry

-              Safety: definition of acceptable risk

-              Responsibility and Influence: Finding the balance

-              Artificial Intelligence: the benefits and risks to architects

and to mitigate the these:

-              Risk management: an approach to Architecture

If you are a non ECAN member who would like to attend, please call 07753766342

10am: Management Meeting

10.30 Gary Gilruth of CEC Building Control, focus on Domestic Regs with recent and future changes and updates on personnel and department structure.

11:30am: Robert Campbell of RIAS Practice Services will present on ‘When things go wrong, they go badly wrong’. Drawing on a range of anonymised challenging real-life scenarios , Robert will draw lessons so that we can best avoid the same.

Tickets for non ECAN members can be purchased in the link below:

Join us for the 2024 ECAN Awayday on Wednesday 21th August.

We are planning a trip to the Highland Wildlife Park to see work by Stuart Baxter and his studio.

Join us for a workshop on the new ARB Competency Guidelines on Sustainability. Working though the given headings given we will review where these apply to our work, where we have sufficient knowledge, and where there may be areas where our knowledge could be improved.

ECAN AGM and Management meeting will commence at 10 am .

ECAN CPD workshop on ARB Competency Guidelines will follow at 11am.

Join us for a workshop on the new ARB Competency Guidelines on Fire & Life Safety Design, and on Sustainability. Working though the given headings given we will review where these apply to our work, where we have sufficient knowledge, and where there may be areas where our knowledge could be improved.

CPD: Nick Ribbons of Zero Waste Scotland will talk to us about the ‘Circular Economy in the design of Buildings’, with principles that can be employed and case study exemplars that have employed

The CPD will be followed by a brief tour of the Edinburgh Printmakers building, which was repurposed by Page & Park Architects.

Please note the Management meeting starts at 10.00, with CPD presentations from 11.00.

Exploring new materials we have two speakers:

14.00 Lucy Black of  Kenoteq will present K-briq, a brick made from recycled content. 

15.15 Radostina Stoeva & Scott Simpson CEO of Indi Nature will present on hemp insulation and other hemp based products by IndiNature.

Please note the Management meeting starts at 12.30, with CPD presentations from 14.00.

Join us for the 2023 ECAN Awayday on Saturday 19th August.

We will visit the Beacon in Gorebridge by Lee Boyd Architects with an explanation of the project by Gail Halvorsen architect, and then the Peel Visitors Centre at Glentress by Gaia Architects, with an explanation of the project by Sam Foster, project Architect.

Using the RIBA climateframework.com model, specifically adapted for sole practitioners (by Glo Lo), learn about how we can collaborate, up-skill and collectively build capabilities. Underpinned by the vision + the mission of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, the Climate Framework presents a common curriculum structure organised around six overarching themes. These themes represent those areas, which can be influenced most directly by the built environment.

ECAN AGM and Management meeting will commence at 12.30 pm .

ECAN CPD on Fire issues will follow at 2.00pm.

Sam Clucas, a Fire Safety Engineer with Arup Associates will talk about the general principles of fire safety, implications of new legislation, and focus on issues that are particularly relevant to smaller practices including sprinkler systems, cladding for domestic projects, including timber cladding.

Danny Henderson & Colin Wishart, City of Edinburgh Building Control explain key changes to the Technical Standards.

Discussions will include a short introduction into some common moisture issues in buildings, failures, basic building physics principles applied - when to start worrying and what to watch out for - and investigation into some common build-ups requested by members through WUFI modelling. 

CPD events are open to non members, book your place at November event below.

Please note that the Management meeting runs from 12.30 to 13.45, the CPD event starts at 14.00.

CPD events are open to non members, book your place at November event below.

Event organised by BE-ST

Away days are a chance for ECAN members to share experience and knowledge a step removed from regular work.

As we emerge from restrictions, this is a chance for us to get together and share our thoughts on what ECAN should be, while taking in the excellent up cycling of the Charteris buildings by Konishi Gaffney.

CPD events are open to non members, book your place at January event below.

CPD events are open to non members, book your place at Novembers event below.