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
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.
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...
Programme
AM#1: Growing Greater Manchester's retrofit market
Drop into sessions to suit | Final programme TBA
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
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AM#2: Unlocking finance to support retrofit scale-up
Drop into sessions to suit | Final programme TBA
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
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AM#3: Lessons & ambition: how can devolution plug gaps in delivery at-scale?
Drop into sessions to suit | Final programme TBA
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
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Meet the Thought Leader Partners
Discover the latest low carbon tech, services and solutions at the Summit - and meet the teams behind them.
What people say about Retrofit Action Week events
You guys are great, very inspiring, you've made the day for me, thank-you 👏🏼
Thanks everyone for all the lovely conversations and talks - very insightful
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
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
My main takeaway today was meeting the guys on the CITB training stall - that was absolutely outstanding
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