Lancashire’s diverse communities come together to tackle retrofit scale-up

Low Carbon Homes’ final retrofit conference of 2021, hosted by Tawd Valley Developments and West Lancashire Borough Council explores the challenges and opportunities of retrofitting homes across the county and wider region. Eighteen speakers from across the UK will seek to share best practice and encourage collaboration.

Conference opens next week to tackle challenges of retrofit scale-up, set in the context of Scottish Government’s new Heat in Buildings Strategy

Next week, Glasgow’s regional retrofit conference opens – just two weeks after the release of the Heat in Buildings Strategy and days ahead of COP26.

Retrofit Key to Becoming England Greenest Region + Retrofit Meeting House Debut

Next week, the North East’s regional retrofit conference opens.  The Low Carbon Homes online event, hosted by the North East England Climate Coalition (NEECCo) explores the opportunity for a coalition approach to retrofitting an entire region of the UK.

On 14 September 2021, the first in a series of new Autumn regional retrofit conferences opens.

The Low Carbon Homes online event, hosted by Shropshire Council, will focus on the many rural properties across Shropshire not connected to mains gas, across a variety of tenures.

Low Carbon Homes Shropshire, (Tuesday 14th

Five new Low Carbon Homes retrofit conferences launched

Today, Tuesday 13 July, Low Carbon Homes opens registration for five more retrofit conferences – each consisting of three days of intense discussion and knowledge-sharing to consider how best to rapidly scale up the retrofitting of housing locally.

Experts ready to answer heat pump questions

Heat Pump Month opens next week with an innovative Ask Me Anything online event where attendees can get any heat pump-related question answered by industry experts, while enjoying a sociable get-together with peers and colleagues.

The Ask Me Anything event on Thursday 17^th June consists of a virtual room of hosted, themed ‘round tables’ where attendees can ask any question about heat pumps and can jump between tables according to their interests.

Seven free-to-attend events announced to support heat pump deployment scale-up

Heat Pump Month, backed by Ground Source Heat Pump Association, Heat Pump Association, Heat Pump Federation and MCS kicks off on Thursday 17^th June with a month-long series of free-to-attend online events to bring together housing, built-environment, policy and installation professionals to collaborate around one the UK’s greatest carbon-reduction challenges – our homes.

Industry unites to support scale-up of heat pump installations

Heating our homes accounts for 14% of the UK’s carbon emissions, requiring a wholesale switch to energy efficient heat pumps. According to the UK Government, 600,000 heat pumps a year need to be installed from 2028 to meet our carbon-reduction targets, aligning with installation levels of other European nations.

County seeks retrofit-at-scale answers at Low Carbon Homes

In a week’s time, Tuesday 6th October, Low Carbon Homes Derbyshire, supported by MCS, goes live online for the first of three days of intense discussion and knowledge-sharing to consider how best Derbyshire can rapidly scale up the retrofitting of housing across the county.

Press Release

Issued by the University of Derby; Wednesday 23 September