Event summary

Retrofit Revisit is a project that has seen the evaluation of 10 dwellings, 10 years after they originally received energy efficiency retrofit measures. The project has been funded by Innovate UK, alongside Historic England, and led by CIBSE and Studio PDP.

Following completion of the project, CIBSE have been undertaking dissemination activities. This workshop, organised by the Building Performance Network with support from Innovate UK and CIBSE, is an opportunity to delve further into the building performance evaluation approaches (planning, techniques and technologies) that informed the projects findings, with insights and expertise from the lead building performance evaluators – Julie Godefroy and Marion Baeli.

The British Standard for in-use BPE, BS 40101 has been used to inform the BPE on the Retrofit Revisit projects. This will be included in workshop content, as will an overview of the rapid techniques used as part of the testing for the 10 projects.

The first of three face to face workshops was held in London on 18th June, with two further workshops taking place in Salford (9th October) and Bristol (28th November). The workshops are open to all within industry with an interest in retrofit and building performance evaluation, including housing associations, local authorities, architects, designers, engineers and retrofit specialists.

Join the workshop to understand how your general practice and specific projects can benefit from building performance evaluation and how to implement it. We will also have a tour of the Energy Houses after lunch.

Registration

Registration: Free to attend, registration essential

Workshop agenda – 28/11/2024

9:00 Registration and refreshments

9:30 Introduction from workshop chair and welcome from events host – Julian Brooks, Programmes Director, Good Homes Alliance and Dr Hector Archila, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Environment, UWE

9:35 Data-driven decision making in retrofit – Laura Morgan Forster, Innovation Lead – Net Zero Heat, Innovate UK UKRI

9:45 Overview of retrofit in the Southwest – Centre for Sustainable Energy and Retrofit West (tbc)

10:00 Overview of Retrofit Revisit – Julie Godefroy, Head of Net Zero Policy, CIBSE

  • Nature of the 10 retrofits
  • Aspects of evaluation techniques used for performance measured & monitored

10:30 BS 40101 – how this was useful, how it changed practice, where compliance was challenging – Zack Gill, Director, SOAP Retrofit

10:45 Blaise Castle case study and reflections on the overall BPE project – Ian Mawditt, Director, Four Walls

11:00 Refreshment break

11:20 Rapid techniques for assessment – Richard Jack, Technical Director, Build Test Solutions and Valentina Marincioni, Technical Director, UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings

11:45 30-minute breakout groups each hosted by an evaluator

  • Reflections on the overall BPE project – Ian Mawditt, Director, Four Walls
  • Moisture – Valentina Marincioni, Technical Director, UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings
  • Occupant feedback and BS 40101 – Zack Gill, Director, SOAP Retrofit
  • Rapid techniques for assessment – Richard Jack, Technical Director, Build Test Solutions

12:15 30-minute repeat of breakout groups

12:45 Summing up:

  • Reporting, data presentation, data storage
    • Conclusions – Julie Godefroy, Head of Net Zero Policy, CIBSE
    • Challenges of reassessing retrofit projects after 10 years.
  • Findings / lessons learned from the evaluation techniques

12:55 Final comments from the chair – Julian Brooks, Programmes Director, Good Homes Alliance

13:00 Close

Supported by the Net Zero Heat programme at Innovate UK

Organised by the Building Performance Network, a programme of the Good Homes Alliance

Event details

Location: Enterprise Park 1, UWE Bristol (University of the West of England Bristol)

Date: 28/11/2024

Time: 9:30 am - 1:00 pm