Ask the Manufacturer – ID Systems
An Ask the Manufacturer special, in association with ID Systems. James Parker speaks to the firm’s marketing manager David Clarke, to discover how the 2021 changes to Building Regulations have…
Solutions for Low Energy Domestic Retrofit at Scale
In May 2024 we staged a multi-disciplinary round table on exploring solutions for the domestic retrofit challenge, in the light of the pressing need to tackle 27 million existing homes…
Exploring Solutions for Residential Deep Retrofit Round Table Review
This episode collects some of the highlights of our recent industry round table, 'Exploring Solutions for Residential Deep Retrofit'.
Exploring Solutions for Residential Deep Retrofit
In May 2024, the fourth Building Insights LIVE round table was held at London’s Building Centre, addressing one of the construction industry’s most pressing challenges: retrofitting the UK's existing housing…
The Benefits of Retrofit & Refurbishment
Tom Slater founded T2S Architecture during the pandemic and is driving the agenda around retrofit as beneficial for the urban context, developers’ business cases, and sustainability.
Retrofit: The ‘green elephant in the room’
In the run-up to Futurebuild at London’s Excel James Parker, editor of Architects’ Datafile and Housebuilder and Developer, speaks to Martin Hurn, event director at Futurebuild.
Sustainability in the Built Environment
Rita Singh of Kingspan Insulation discusses how a fabric first approach works in practice and why retrofit first should be the overriding aim.