Back to the Future: The Retrofit Journey

In this show, Professor Sean Smith will present on the scale and accelerations required for the retrofit of Scotland’s 2.7 million homes and the significance of their role in delivering future net zero targets.

Also under discussion will be the role of building archetype retrofit solutions and learning from the past, and why it highlights the step change for households and building managers and owners.

The session will also cover some of the new technologies on the block!

About the speaker

Sean is Professor of Future Construction within the School of Engineering and Director of Centre for Future Infrastructure (Edinburgh Futures Institute) at the University of Edinburgh, which he joined in June 2020. He is a Fellow of the RSA and an Honorary Fellow of RIAS and CIAT. He chairs and serves on several net zero advisory boards and was a member of the Zero Emission Social Housing Task Force (ZEST) and Scottish Government EESSH 2 review group for energy efficiency.