Many of the benefits of retrofit are social and health related, yet these outcomes are rarely captured or valued. Sara Edmonds, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub presents their report for broadening how success in retrofit is defined.
Douglas Booker, the project lead for HESTIA will also provide some information on the recently announced HESTIA Sandpit, including what it is, and how you can apply to be involved
Keynote Speaker
Sarah Edmonds – Co-Director of National Retrofit Hub
Sara Edmonds is an architect and activist, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub, whose mission is to enable the local delivery of retrofit at scale. She co-founded Home Energy Action Lab (HEAL) an advocacy test bed for community based domestic retrofit. She sits on the Warm Homes Plan expert advisory panel. Previously she spent 3 years as Head of Citizen Engagement at Built Environment – Smarter Transformation in the retrofit team, and 3 years as a coordinator at the Architects Climate Action Network, an organisation formed to empower individuals within architecture and related built environment professions taking action to address the twin crises of climate and ecological breakdown; and spent a year as social housing associate at the Passivhaus Trust. For over a decade she was director of Studio seARCH, a consultancy that advocated for systemic change around low carbon domestic retrofit.. Working in the face of a climate emergency, the focus of Sara’s work is to drive essential change in the built environment and wider communities through connecting bottom-up, grassroots projects and top-down strategies and initiatives. Collaboration and codesign is a fundamental part of this work.
This webinar is part of a UKIEG Webinar series on Healthy Indoor Environments, in Partnership with Air Hub, HESTIA, and BreatHE In networks, as well as the Micro Networks Noise Networks Plus and GREENIN Micro-network Plus.