Although the UK is falling well short of the Government’s target to build 200,000 new homes a year, the rush by mainstream housebuilders to meet demand whilst maximising profit could, in itself, be storing up problems for the future.

With the key theme of transforming Europe’s existing housing stock, this year’s International Refurbishment Symposium is set to tackle the many issues facing the retrofit sector with the help of several high-profile speakers. Amongst them at the event – part of Eco Connect London on September...

The Retrofit Academy CIC was set up to address the skills and knowledge gaps that were clearly and obviously impacting upon the quality of retrofit projects being delivered under the ECO and Green Deal. These gaps were largely the result of the failure of the educational establishment to incorporate...

The idea for an international, high-level symposium on sustainable refurbishment was borne out of frustration. Despite huge investment into R&D by governments and industry, we keep getting sustainable refurbishment wrong. We fail to develop approaches that successfully incentivise uptake....