Event summary
Retrofit Revisit is a project that has seen the evaluation of 10 dwellings, 10 years after they originally received energy efficiency retrofit measures. The project has been funded by Innovate UK, alongside Historic England, and led by CIBSE and Studio PDP.
Following completion of the project, CIBSE have been undertaking dissemination activities. This workshop, organised by the Building Performance Network with support from Innovate UK and CIBSE, is an opportunity to delve further into the building performance evaluation approaches (planning, techniques and technologies) that informed the projects findings, with insights and expertise from the lead building performance evaluators – Julie Godefroy and Marion Baeli.
The British Standard for in-use BPE, BS 40101 has been used to inform the BPE on the Retrofit Revisit projects. This will be included in workshop content, as will an overview of the rapid techniques used as part of the testing for the 10 projects.
The first of three face to face workshops was held in London on 18th June, with two further workshops taking place in Salford (9th October) and Bristol (28th November). The workshops are open to all within industry with an interest in retrofit and building performance evaluation, including housing associations, local authorities, architects, designers, engineers and retrofit specialists.
Join the workshop to understand how your general practice and specific projects can benefit from building performance evaluation and how to implement it. We will also have a tour of the Energy Houses after lunch.
Event details
Date: Wednesday 9th October 2024
Time: 9:30 – 13:00 followed by lunch and tour of Energy House 1 and 2 (registration from 9:00)
Location: University of Salford – The Old Fire Station, Council Chamber, Albert Bentley Place, Salford, M5 4NY.
The venue is a 5-minute walk from Salford Crescent station. The main University carpark is Irwell Place (M5 4WT) which is a 2-minute walk from the venue.
Registration: Free to attend, registration essential. Update: Now fully booked!
Workshop agenda
9:00 Registration and refreshments
9:30 Introduction from event chair – Tom Dollard, Vice-Chair, Good Homes Alliance
9:35 Presentation by the UKRI Net Zero Heat Team on data-driven decision making in retrofit – Laura Morgan Forster, Innovation Lead – Net Zero Heat, Innovate UK UKRI
9:45 Overview of retrofit in the Northwest – Jonathan Atkinson, Business Development Manager, People Powered Retrofit
10:00 Overview of Retrofit Revisit – Julie Godefroy, Head of Net Zero Policy, CIBSE
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- Nature of the 10 retrofits
- Aspects of evaluation techniques used for performance measured & monitored.
10:30 BS 40101 – how this was useful, how it changed practice, where compliance was challenging – Zack Gill, Director, SOAP Retrofit
10:50 Findings from Princedale Road – The first PassivHaus Certified retrofit in the UK – Helen Grimshaw, Research and Evaluation Lead, Carbon Coop
11:05 Refreshment break
11:30 30-minute breakout groups
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- Securing access to data – Helen Grimshaw, Research and Evaluation Lead, Carbon Coop
- Occupant feedback and BS 40101 – Zack Gill, Director, SOAP Retrofit
- How can we learn from retrofit success, and failure, quicker and share the information responsibly? – Kate Simpson, Associate Professor, Centre for Sustainable Construction and Retrofit, Nottingham Trent University
12:00 30-minute repeat of breakout groups
12:30 Summing up:
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- Reporting, data presentation, data storage
- Conclusions – Julie Godefroy, Head of Net Zero Policy, CIBSE
- Challenges of reassessing retrofit projects after 10 years.
- Findings / lessons learned from the evaluation techniques
- Reporting, data presentation, data storage
12:40 Final comments from the chair – Tom Dollard, Vice-Chair, Good Homes Alliance
12:45 Introduction to Energy Houses – David Farmer, Research Fellow, University of Salford
13:00 Lunch, networking and optional tours of Energy House 1 and 2
15:00 Close
Supported by the Net Zero Heat programme at Innovate UK
Organised by the Building Performance Network, a programme of the Good Homes Alliance