Twilight Talks

The Green Register's early evening talks supported by Ecomerchant: together promoting ethical, healthy sustainable building materials.

On the second Monday of each month The Green Register brings you our Twilight Talks - a relaxed and informal string of events on sustainable building matters to complement our regular training topics.

Each one-hour event is FREE of charge and features short talks from one or more speakers. With Q&A and discussion sessions throughout, everyone is invited to be part of the conversation. We hold Twilight talks at 5-6pm, in the sweet spot between work and dinner – so join us to nourish the mind before replenishing the body!

Empowering Women in Sustainable Construction

What are the challenges in attracting, training and retaining women working in sustainable construction and what activities need to be undertaken to really address the missing pieces? 

In this Twilight Talk, Leah Robson and Ellora Coupe will explore the needs and challenges faced by professional women in the sustainable construction industry. 

Building on the foundation of her business, Leah has started an in-house training scheme at Your Energy Your Way, offering work and training to under-represented groups in the industry. She hopes this will help move the construction industry towards better gender equality, strengthening the move towards cleaner energy. 

Ellora recently launched Her Retrofit Space, an innovative platform, of which Leah is a member, to support professional women through the need to solve the many challenges around domestic retrofit as a collective. 

The subsequent ability to solve retrofit challenges with women homeowners at the heart increases the likelihood of business and career success for professional women across the retrofit industry. 

About the Speakers

Ellora Coupe - Director, Her Retrofit Space

Ellora is Founder and Director of Her Retrofit Space, a symbiotic platform for professional women and homeowners within the retrofit industry. 

Her Retrofit Space recently launched with an innovative platform to support professional women through solving the many challenges around domestic retrofit as a collective, and in addition to support professional women drive their businesses and careers with day to day funded support, training and knowledge sharing. With a variety of professional women including retrofit coordinators, assessors, renewable energy installers, architects & surveyors; there is a resounding ability to simply make it easier and more effective for homeowners to undertake a retrofit project.

Leah Robson - Director, Your Energy Your Way  

She has a 10 year track record in the successful installation of renewable energy solutions including ground source and air source heat pumps, solar PV, solar thermal, EV chargers and batteries.  Building on the foundation of this work, she has started an in-house training scheme at Your Energy Your Way, offering work and training to under-represented groups in the industry. She hopes this will help move the construction industry towards better gender equality, enabling the move towards cleaner energy. 

Her career spanning 20 years has included a wide range of experience in technical projects both in IT with Accenture and latterly in renewables, including obtaining an MSc in Corporate Governance and Business Ethics.  She is also Chair of Directors of MaidEnergy Coop, a local renewable energy society, created to support the growth of renewable, locally generated energy in Maidenhead, Windsor, Egham, Staines and the surrounding area.

Twilight Talks are supported by Ecomerchant.