Join leading professionals in construction, architecture and heritage conservation for an afternoon of tours, networking, and insights into CAT’s pioneering projects and future plans. 

Networking and Knowledge Sharing at CAT

We are inviting members of The Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB), The Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW), UK Passivhaus Trust, and The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Cymru regional group to visit CAT to explore the heritage of CAT’s Llwyngwern Quarry landscape, living archive of pioneering low-carbon buildings and to hear about CAT’s exciting Cynefin redevelopment project.

Alongside networking, attendees will also have the opportunity to learn more about CAT’s current teaching and research activities, featuring staff and students from the Graduate School of the Environment.

In addition, attendees will be able to book an evening meal if they wish to stay for the evening lecture, joining students from our Masters in Green Building and MArch in Sustainable Architecture courses to hear more about the experimental timber structures at Hooke Park.

Key information

• Date: Wednesday 11 February 2026
• Free but limited spaces so please sign up in advance
• Programme for the day:
  

  • Arrival from 1.30pm
  • 2:00pm start: Guided tours exploring CAT’s site, landscape and buildings.
  • 3.30pm: Refreshments in the WISE Building – with opportunities for attendees to network and share information about their practice/projects (please contact Tim Coleridge if you would like a table or to make a short presentation).
  • 4.30pm: Talk by CAT’s Co-CEO Eileen Kinsman and Project Director John Challen on CAT’s exciting ‘Cynefin’ redevelopment project.
  • 6:00pm: Optional evening meal in CAT’s café (see details below).
  • 7:00pm: Guest lecture ‘Hooke Park: Prototyping Futures’ – forest laboratory and advanced timber building fabrication.
  • 8:00pm: Networking at the bar.

• Location: WISE building
• Parking: Please park in the bottom car park and walk up North Drive to the WISE Building. If you have accessibility needs and require a parking space at the top of site, please contact us so we can reserve this for you as we have limited parking at the top ofthe site. wise.reception@cat.org.uk
• Book an evening meal in CAT’s café at 6:00pm and join our students to discuss and debate before the evening lecture begins.

  • This can be pre-booked for £10 alongside your booking below.
  • Will be served at 6:00pm before the lecture begins.
  • This can only be prebooked before the event and cannot be purchased onsite.

If you have any questions about this event, please direct them to tim.coleridge@cat.org.uk

Event lead: Tim Coleridge

Tim is an Architect and Programme Leader for the Sustainability and Adaptation and Green Building Masters programmes at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales. Tim is passionate about sustainable design and adaptation in the built environment, regularly lecturing and leading seminars and practical workshops in environmentally responsive materials, low- and zero-carbon buildings, advanced building analysis and construction strategies, and using socio-technical research to close the ‘performance gap’.