National Retrofit Hub - Open Meeting 2025

The National Retrofit Hub brings together people and organisations working to make retrofit happen.

Our open meetings are a space to share progress, exchange insights, and shape priorities together. At our last session, feedback from attendees helped define our Cross-Cutting Themes, which continue to guide collaboration across the sector.

This time, we’ll revisit those themes, share what’s been happening, and explore where focus is most needed next.

In this session, we will:

• Share updates on live projects, including Retrofit Connect and Measuring Outcomes and Impact Evaluation
• Explore progress and next steps across our Cross-Cutting Themes:
  
  1. Community Retrofit
  2. EPCs and MEES
  3. Place-Based Approaches
  4. Financing Outcomes and Impact
  5. Heritage and Whole Life Carbon
  6. Procurement

• Gather your input as we develop our mandate on key topics, including justice, ethics, and climate resilience

This session is open to everyone. Come along, take part, and help shape what comes next.

Speakers

• Rachael Owens - NRH (Co-Director)
• Sara Edmonds - NRH (Co-Director)
• Nazia Azad - Centre for Ageing Better (Topic: Climate and social justice in housing retrofit)
• Alasdair Ben Dixon - Collective Works (Topic: Ethics in retrofit)
• Emma Pfeiffer - Dark Matter Labs (Topic: Climate resilience in housing retrofit)

About the National Retrofit Hub

The National Retrofit Hub (NRH) is an independent, nonprofit organisation enabling the local delivery of retrofit at scale across the UK. Its focus is on aligning efforts, addressing gaps, and unlocking practical solutions to accelerate building upgrades that improve health, accelerate decarbonisation, and create economic opportunity.

Through convening working groups, cross-sector collaboration, and shared problem-solving, the NRH brings clarity and momentum to the retrofit challenge. It provides evidence-based guidance, tools, and insight to support informed decisions and coordinated delivery.

Work is structured around three pillars (Convene, Evidence, and Action) to ensure retrofit delivers long-term social, environmental, and economic value. This includes supporting skilled job growth, informing better policy, and helping local and national organisations deliver upgrades at the quality, pace, and scale required.