National leaders in their fields addressed the issues of quality in building, climate change, energy conservation, water management and renewable energy. The workshop brought together representatives from local government, business and education. The de-briefing session sent out very clear messages. Education and communication were of supreme importance. . This could not have become clearer than when Brian Hooper from WaterWise explained the ways in which every householder could save water consumption, most of which it was admitted were unknown to the delegates themselves.

Jonathan Davis from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) gave a comprehensive introduction to the need for quality in building and planning new environments. Endorsing the need for good practise to be better known he commended the Cornwall Lecture and the workshops saying that every county in the country would benefit from having such an initiative.

Steve Noyes of the Met Office gave a clear insight into what is happening to our climate. He expressed concern that Government was spending too much attention on energy conservation rather than advising on how we should adapt our homes and business premises to more extremes of weather bringing more hot and cold incidents.