About the event

With around 4 million social rented homes in the UK, their decarbonisation to tackle climate change and fuel poverty is a huge task for local authorities and other registered social landlords.

Expert Andy Dale will talk through the processes required to tackle such projects, including stock analysis and the different approaches required compared to maintenance projects.

By outlining their approach to two residential archetypes, Andy will explore PAS2030 & 2035 fabric-first whole-house retrofit approaches. He will also discuss the challenges of funding projects, and the delivery challenges including managing design and quality, including appropriate contract types.

Andy will conclude with reflecting on the Government’s recently published Warm Homes Plan and the measures it encourages, and where this sits in relation to past and future policy.

About the speaker

Andy Dale, Head of Retrofit – Building Energy Experts

As an architect for more than 20 years, Andy has experience serving clients from local authority, housing associations and commercial development backgrounds on predominantly large, publicly and commercially funded property developments. He also ran his own practice helping homeowners sensitively retrofit and alter heritage homes, as well as teaching architectural design at university level.

Andy has responsibility for retrofit-at-scale projects within the social housing decarbonisation sector as part of the Government’s and registered social landlords’ net zero plan activities. He has a passion for implementing carbon reduction across the UK housing sector, which accounts for a little below half of all national emissions.

Andy is a registered architect and a licenced PAS2035 Retrofit Coordinator with a Level 3 qualification in the energy assessment of traditional and historic buildings.