Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit 2024

Designed specifically for local/combined authority officers, installers, contractors, consultants, community organisations, surveyors, architects, academics, landlords, and sector organisations.

Hear from UK leading lights in low carbon - those at the cutting edge of retrofit research, planning and best practice.

We pose your questions to our expert speaker panel

Case-studies shared with you live - drill into the nitty-gritty of retrofit with those who are at the forefront of the action

Hear from local authority leaders who are spearheading retrofit action at-scale

Come along and learn how others are getting retrofit done - the good stuff and the lessons learnt along the way

Be inspired for your own projects by the work being done to decarbonise our homes and meet net zero targets

Attendees love our fast-paced online format - drop in to suit your schedule

Join us at GM's Retrofit Action Week flagship event this October

Greater Manchester aims for zero carbon by 2038, with housing retrofit crucial to this goal. Join us online at the 5th Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit during Retrofit Action Week, Oct 7-9, 2024, to explore how the city region leverages soon-to-be devolved powers for retrofit advancements.

Who's it for?

The Summit is for everyone working in retrofit at-scale, community retrofit and individual home retrofit projects - specifically, local/combined authority officers, installers, contractors, consultants, community organisations, surveyors, academics, landlords and green economy organisations.

Format

The Summit runs online on Zoom Events over Oct 7-9, 2024 (08.45-12.30hrs) offering presentations, speaker Q&A discussion, themed break-outs and informal networking each morning.

Programme themes and content are being produced in conjunction with our regional Advisory Group to ensure local perspectives, needs and objectives are at the heart of the event.

Hear from leading lights in low carbon housing

Focused and fast-paced retrofit-focused programme curated with our regional Advisory Group - and specifically aimed at local/combined authority officers, installers, contractors, consultants, community organisations, surveyors, academics, landlords, architects and green economy and sector organisations.

Image: Aileen McDonnell, B4Box, past speaker at Manchester Retrofit Summits; image courtesy of The Guardian.

Pose your questions to the experts

Facilitated Q&A each morning allows you to pose your burning questions to the experts - and get answers! - then chat directly with them in the breakouts.

Each AM session allows plenty of time for discussion with speakers and peers.

Summits are informal friendly events designed to facilitate learning and information-sharing.

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Find solutions for your projects

Join themed breakout rooms each morning to discover the latest proven low carbon tech and solutions - and meet the teams behind them - to discover how it can help your projects.

Recent themes have included: preventing mould and damp; data and retrofit; retrofit and SHDF; helping you reach net zero; ventilation for good retrofit; meet the contractor and turnkey retrofit delivery...

AM#1: Growing Greater Manchester's retrofit market

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08.45hrs: Logging in and early chats

09.00hrs: Welcome & Overview

09:10hrs: Meet our Thought Leaders

09:15hrs: Opening Address

09:25hrs: Devo deal, market growth and career pathways, with Rory Matthews, GMCA

09:40hrs: Skills and workforce development, with Amy House, Green Economy

09:50: New political context and 'new gov' changed priorities, with Claire Brown, Turner & Townsend

10:00hrs: Thought Leader session >> Importance of ventilation for good retrofit, with Ashley Woolgar, VENTI

10:10hrs: Thought Leader session >> Building partnerships for retrofit, with Alex Baines, Saint Gobain Interior Solutions

10.20hrs: Themed Breakouts and discussion

10:50hrs: Panel 'The Big Debate', chaired by Russell Smith, Parity Projects | Core Logic

11.30hrs: AM2 Preview + Themed Breakouts and discussion

12.00hrs: Morning closes

AM#2: Unlocking finance to support retrofit scale-up

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08.45hrs: Logging in and early chats

09.00hrs: Welcome & Overview

09:10hrs: Meet our Partners

09:15hrs: Finance and funding landscapes, with Chloe Timperley, Green Finance Institute

09:25hrs: Green Home Finance Accelerator projects: Carbon Adjust grant management system, with Nene Onyemari, Escrow Tech

09:30hrs: Green Home Finance Accelerator projects, with Avinash Rajan, Trustmark

09:35hrs: Green Home Finance Accelerator projects, with Michelle Robinson & Robin Peters, Snugg

09:40hrs: Local Partnerships and Credit Unions, with Imogen Sykes, People Powered Retrofit

09:50: Regional approaches to finance - SCOTLAND, with Elaine Waterson, Energy Saving Trust

10:00hrs: Regional approaches to finance - SWEDEN, with Tom Leach, Nesta

10:10hrs: Thought Leader session >> Digital services for consumers to design, manage and control their own home retrofit plans, with Colin Calder, Digital Buildings

10:20hrs: Thought leader session >> Green Doctor Retrofit around Manchester, with Emily Thompson, Groundwork

10.30hrs: Themed Breakouts and discussion

11:00hrs: Speaker Q&A Panel, chaired by Graham Lock, Low Carbon Homes

11.30hrs: AM#3 Preview + Themed Breakouts and discussion

12.00hrs: Morning closes

AM#3: Lessons & ambition: how can devolution plug gaps in delivery at-scale?

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08.45hrs: Logging in and early chats

09.00hrs: Welcome & Overview

09:05hrs: Meet our Partners

09:10hrs: Retrofit Revisit, with Marion Baeli, 10 Design

09:20hrs: DEEP/smeters, with David Farmer, Univ. of Salford

09:30hrs: Municipal v. Community-led Retrofit - learning and reflections in the context of Labour's Local Power Plan, with Jonathan Atkinson, Carbon Co-op/People Powered Retrofit

09:40hrs: Democratising Retrofit - Your Home Better's systemic retrofit intervention: successes, failures and next steps, with Charlie Baker, Your Home Better

09:50hrs: Local Energy Advice Demonstrators (LEAD), with Tony Seasman, North West Net Zero Hub

10:05hrs: Thought Leader session >> Equans and retrofit, with Tim Wood, Equans

10:15hrs: Thought Leader session >> with Anthony Daly, Next Energy

10.25hrs: Themed Breakouts and discussion

10:55hrs: Speaker Q&A Panel, chaired by Prof. Will Swan, Univ. of Salford/Energy House Labs & RAW highlights for the week ahead

11.40hrs: Themed Breakouts and discussion

12.00hrs: Summit closes

Saint Gobain Interior Solutions (SGIS) Thought Leader Partner

What people say about Retrofit Action Week events

You guys are great, very inspiring, you've made the day for me, thank-you 👏🏼

Local Authority officer - attendee, Birmingham Retrofit Summit 2024

Summit Attendee round (trans background)

Thanks everyone for all the lovely conversations and talks - very insightful

Project Manager - attendee, Birmingham Retrofit Summit 2024

A great event to attend. Met an awful lot of interesting people from a lot of different backgrounds, social housing providers, contractors, installers. It's particularly useful to see how different people can speak to each other about retrofit

Architect - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023

Nice and compact…plenty of time to have a good chat with everyone - met some good people and you see the highlights. The workshops were very interesting which led to making some good relationships with architects and different builders and stuff that's going to be a good working relationship going forward

Housing officer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023

My main takeaway today was meeting the guys on the CITB training stall - that was absolutely outstanding

Energy engineer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023

I think strengthening the kind of network of contacts and the retrofit industry in the Northwest was the most important thing for us. Meeting contractors and people who are interested in pushing retrofit forward, whether that be social housing providers, whether that be community groups, that sort of thing - looking at how it can be done at scale

Retrofitter & installer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023

Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit

KICKING OFF RETROFIT ACTION WEEK GREAT MANCHESTER 2024

Presentations, Q&A, themed discussion & networking

Join us at GM's Retrofit Action Week flagship event this October

Who's it for?

Hear from leading lights in low carbon housing

Pose your questions to the experts

Find solutions for your projects

Programme

Programme themes and content are designed in close collaboration with our Greater Manchester Advisory Group to ensure local perspectives, needs and objectives are at the heart of the Summit.

AM#1: Growing Greater Manchester's retrofit market

AM#2: Unlocking finance to support retrofit scale-up

AM#3: Lessons & ambition: how can devolution plug gaps in delivery at-scale?

Meet the Thought Leader Partners

What people say about Retrofit Action Week events

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