“Cold homes cost the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds each year,” said Director of Public Health at Blackpool Council Dr Arif Rajpura during his keynote speech at our Lancashire Retrofit Summit in March. 

For Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotherham, retrofit is deeply personal.

We had a fantastic speaker programme at the South East Retrofit Summit about the exciting retrofit opportunities in the region. 

Not many people know what it takes to retrofit a seventeenth century farmhouse, but with the aid of thermal imagery Ralph Carpenter could give us a flavour.  

“What you’re seeing here,” he explained to the audience at our Suffolk Retrofit Conference, “bearing in mind this is a timber-frame building, is the timber frame showing through at first

 “I’m here at the county hospital site in Colchester, standing backed by the archaeological investigations which are producing innumerable, wonderful finds, including glassware with gladiators carved on it and pottery,” Councillor Lesley Wagland, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Community, Equality, Partnerships and Performance at Essex County Council told Essex Retrofit Summit attendees, as she highlighted some of the fascinating finds at a site on which Essex Housing would soon build green homes.

“I know what many of you are probably thinking,” Councillor Andy Drummond, Portfolio Holder for Regulatory and Environment for West Suffolk Council, said with a wry smile during his opening remarks at our Retrofit Revisited Suffolk conference - “He’s a politician, and when politicians say they need to do something, they mean ‘you solve this’!”