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GREATER MANCHESTER RETROFIT SUMMIT & EXPO 2025

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This November...

Hosted by Energy House Labs, University of Salford this exciting new event builds on the success of our Greater Manchester retrofit-focused events since 2019!

This in-person Conference & Expo event - a key part of Retrofit Action Week Greater Manchester - will celebrate and highlight the opportunities created by devolution, while showcasing the very best retrofit solutions… and we’d love to have you involved. 

  • WHAT? Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit & Expo: a full-day of presentations, panels, Expo information displays, sociable networking and guided tours of Energy House Labs.
  • WHEN? 09.30-17.00hrs, Thurs 13 November 2025 (timings TBC)
  • WHERE? New Adelphi Theatre, University of Salford, University Road, Salford M5 4BR 
  • WHO? The event is designed for everyone working in retrofit at-scale - businesses, not-for-profits and communities -  particularly influential buyers and specifiers of retrofit solutions for domestic property 
  • HOW TO EXHIBIT? Sponsorship, Thought Leader (SOLD OUT) and Exhibition space options available (ALMOST GONE!), including well-positioned outside display space for demo/promo vehicles.
  • HOW TO VISIT? It's FREE 🆓 to attend for all - book your ticket below today and receive event updates as they happen!

Overview

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Overview
The Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit & Expo comes to University of Salford on Thurs 13 Nov 2025!

This in-person conference and expo event will showcase top retrofit solutions, celebrate GM's devolution and connect key industry players.

Expect insightful presentations, displays, panels and discussions, valuable networking and exciting innovation.

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Key details
  • EVENT: Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit & Expo
  • DATE: Thurs, 13 Nov 2025
  • VENUE: New Adelphi Theatre, University of Salford
  • PURPOSE: To connect and collaborate on retrofit solutions in Greater Manchester
  • AUDIENCE: Everyone working in housing retrofit at-scale particularly professional buyers and specifiers for domestic retrofit solutions
  • OPPORTUNITIES: Thought Leader partnerships (SOLD OUT) and exhibition space (BOOKING FAST) incl. outdoor demo areas close-by.

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Host an activity over Retrofit Action Week

The Greater Manchester Retrofit Action Week (November 8-16, 2025) provides YOU with a platform to host your own engagement activity - anything you like - from advice pop-ups and CPD webinars to eco-fairs and open home visits—whatever fits your goals!

  • 🆓 FREE. For not-for-profit and community organisations to engage directly with their audiences
  • You plan, promote, and host; we list and boost your event within the Action Week's "What's On" communications.
  • Activity listings open now — Plan it! List it!


FEATURED EXHIBITORS

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Benx
Thought Leader

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Benx provides a complete façade solution for any construction type – from masonry to framed, high-rise to low-rise, and site-based to offsite. With over 20 years as a façade innovator, we continuously refine our certified products, systems and services to meet customer needs, especially focusing on modern construction methods. Whether you're an installer, manufacturer, or aiming to reduce on-site work, Benx offers more choice with less complexity and risk. We believe this is the future of façades.

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Groundwork
Thought Leader

Groundwork logoGroundwork's vision is to create a greener, fairer and stronger future for all people, communities and places in Greater Manchester.

Our work will focus on those that need support the most and harness the strengths of Greater Manchester’s people, places and communities in order to mobilise practical action that delivers environmental and social justice.

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Next Energy
Thought Leader

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Next Energy makes your home or business more energy efficient. Specialising in renewables, insulation, and heating systems, we provide energy saving measures by way of retrofit for our clients across a high number of funded schemes and private contracts.

Blauberg UK
Blauberg UK

Filter the air in your home so it’s free from pollutants, encouraging a healthier living environment.
Reduce energy bills and carbon footprint.
Ventilate your home without losing heat.
Prevent damp and mould caused by water vapour in the home from daily activities like cooking and showering.

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Carbon FutureX Group

We provide optimised design and consulting services for your green-retrofitting investment in our all-in-one shop. No matter what kind of requirements, there will always be a tailored retrofit solution for your dream home.

Designing through our all-in-one The Grid tool, we can provide optimized solutions for a green retrofit design of your entire home by integrating and sizing each technology, to meet our clients’ motivation and requirement.

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Daikin UK
Daikin

Discover a heat pump for heating and cooling.
From hot spells to cold snaps, a Daikin heat pump heats and cools your home while lowering your energy bills.

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Energy Innovation Agency

We're accelerating Greater Manchester's transition to carbon neutrality. The Energy Innovation Agency transforms the region's energy systems, making buildings and processes cleaner, greener, and more sustainable. Our work lowers carbon emissions and boosts energy accessibility for all. By bridging the energy innovation gap, we drive the adoption of green solutions in Greater Manchester and beyond, collaborating with innovators, providers, and large consumers to rapidly cut emissions.

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Grant Engineering
Grant UK

At Grant UK, we are passionate about supplying sustainable and high performing heating systems which respond to the challenges of rising fuel costs and climate change. We are on a mission to provide choice for homeowners when it comes to heating their homes today and into the future, ensuring every home is kept warm efficiently with either traditional systems or renewable technologies.

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Livoltek
Livoltek

LIVOLTEK, part of the Hexing Group (est. 1992, SSE: 603556), is a global leader in renewable energy solutions. We leverage our extensive global and local expertise to provide tailored energy solutions in over 90 countries.
Our diverse portfolio includes PV, hybrid, and battery inverters, all-in-one BESS, EV chargers, solar lights, solar pumps, and intelligent energy management platforms. These solutions serve residential, commercial, industrial, and utility-scale needs.
Committed to green energy innovation, LIVOLTEK delivers efficient, cost-effective solutions, empowering a cleaner future through cutting-edge technology and a robust global supply chain.

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NorDan

We have been active in the UK construction industry for over 40 years.

Working closely with our production factories we supply high performance products to a range of markets including Affordable Housing, Private Rental Sector, Private House Building market & end-user Residential.

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Recoup

Recoup WWHRS are UK specialists for Waste Water Heat Recovery for showers (WWHRS). One of the fastest growing energy efficient renewable products available. Used for new build compliance through SAP, SBEM or BREEAM, or to retrofit existing properties such as homes, hotels or commercial buildings, reducing the hot water costs of high traffic areas or hard to treat homes.

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Secure Meters
Secure

Secure is a multi-national corporation committed to providing revenue management, power quality and energy efficiency to its customers, enabling them to save money, reduce energy consumption and facilitate comfortable living.
From electricity, gas, water, and heat generation to final consumption, we add value across the entire energy supply chain. Furthermore, we offer metering, billing and collection for electricity and gas, monitor energy efficiency, and many other solutions and services.

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Showersave

Showersave provide a range of waste water heat recovery systems (WWHRS), suitable for residential and commercial projects. Showersave is a simple heat exchanger that extracts the heat from the warm water that would normally flow down the drain while showering.

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Soltherm External Insulations
Soltherm

Soltherm are producers of the highest quality EWI system in the world and leading provider of thermal insulation systems. We have been manufacturing products in house on the most advanced production line in Europe for more than 25 years.
We are engineering-led with a R&D department unique to the EWI industry. With an ongoing commitment to innovation and improvement, we have produced a fully certified A1 fire rated system using fire safe technology which is 75 years approved.

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Focused talks, panels and discussion/debate + plenty of opportunity for sociable networking for everyone working in Greater Manchester retrofit at-scale.

GMRS 2025_general imagery for HubSpot 2All timings and content is provisional:

  • 09.30hrs: Energy House Labs Tour
  • 10.00hrs: Presentations and panels
  • 12.00hrs: Lunch, Expo and Networking + Energy House Labs Tour
  • 13.30hrs: Presentations & Breakouts
  • 15.00hrs: Tea, Expo and Networking
  • 15.30hrs: Presentations and panels
  • 16.30hrs: More tea, Expo and Networking + Energy House Labs Tour
  • 17:00hrs: Event close