Retrofit Summit

Summit

Wednesday 09 October 2024
09:00 - 13:30

This NLA Retrofit Summit sponsored by Civic Engineers and shedkm, showcases how built environment practitioners are reinvigorating, reusing and decarbonising London’s existing building stock.

In recent times, as working patterns have evolved, approaches to reimagining and adapting single-use offices to serve new purposes and uses have become increasingly important. To unlock assets and optimise London’s potential commercial space, industry leaders are increasingly opting to retrofit existing buildings.

Emissions from heating and powering London’s commercial and industrial buildings currently make up 36 per cent of the capital’s carbon footprint. In this context, retrofitting London’s non-domestic building stock is also critical to meeting the mayor’s ambitions for net zero by 2030.

As some tenants move back to the City of London and others reduce their footprint, how can buildings be reimagined to attract new occupants? What tools can be adopted to reuse building’s fabric, materials and energy responsibly?

This NLA Retrofit Summit brings together voices from across the built environment industry to showcase the potential of adaptive reuse and circular principles to inject new life into old buildings, presenting best practice projects, strategies and programmes.

Please get in touch with membership@nla.london for an exclusive members-only 60% discount code.

Download Speaker Presentations

Andrew_Davidson-Studio_PDP.pdf
Austin_Entonu-GLA.pdf
Festus_Moffat-JRA.pdf
Gareth_Atkinson-Civic_Engineers.pdf
Kirsty_Draper-JLL.pdf
Hazel_Rounding-ShedKM.pdf
Mari_Samuelson-Fletcher_Priest.pdf
Steve_Sanham-Common_Projects.pdf
Valeria_Sergovia-Gensler.pdf
Ruth_Oates-Buro_Four.pdf

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Programme

08:30
Registration and Breakfast

Session One: Revitalizing Existing Buildings

09:00
Welcome from Chair

Catherine Staniland, Director, NLA

09:05
Investment for Retrofit

Valeria Segovia, Principal and Studio Director, Gensler & Representative, Opportunity London ‘Retrofit at scale working group'

09:15
Social regeneration through bold design

Hazel Rounding, Managing Director, shedkm

09:25
New Zealand House
Clare Harrison, Development Director, The Crown Estate

09:35
Panel discussion

Speakers above, plus:

Tom Stoneham, Senior Development Manager, Hub Residential

10:15
Comfort Break

Project Showcase

10:30
Welcome from Chair

Presentations:

London Museum

Ruth Oates, Director, and joint Commercial Office lead, Buro Four

150 Aldersgate

Mari Samuelsen, Associate, Fletcher Priest Architects

Zodiac House

Steve Sanham, Co-founder, Common Projects

Peterborough Court

Festus Moffat, Director, JRA

House of Fraser

Andrew Davidson, Partner, Studio PDP

11:15
Comfort Break

Session Two: Reusing buildings, materials and energy

11:30
Welcome from Chair

Catherine Staniland, Director, NLA

11:35
Retrofit Accelerator Workplaces – Mayor’s environment strategy

Austin Entonu, Head of Net Zero Energy, GLA

11:45
Zero-carbon Westminster

Kirsty Draper, Westminster Property Association Planning & Sustainability Committee Vice Chair, Head of Sustainability - UK Agency, JLL

11:55
The role of the engineer in retrofit

Gareth Atkinson, Director, Civic Engineers

12:05
Panel discussion and Q&A

Speakers above, plus:

Oli Pye, Head of Sustainability, Montagu Evans

12:30
Networking

13:30
End

Speaker biographies

Catherine Staniland

Director, NLA

Hazel Rounding

Managing Director, shedkm

Tom Stoneham

Senior Development Manager, HUB Living

Kirsty Draper

Head of Sustainability - UK Agency, JLL

Gareth Atkinson

Director, Civic

Andrew Davidson

Partner, Studio PDP

Mari Samuelsen

Associate, Fletcher Priest Architects

Mark Sidebotham

Practice Director, shedkm

Oli Pye

Head of Sustainability, Montagu Evans

Matthew Thomas

Programme Manager (Energy), Greater London Authority

Ruth Oates

Director, Buro Four

Festus Moffat

Director, John Robertson Architects

Valeria Segovia

Principal and Studio Director, Gensler

Steve Sanham

Founding Partner, Common Projects

Clare Harrison

Development Director, The Crown Estate

Member Discount

Please get in touch with membership@nla.london for an exclusive members-only 60% discount code.

Venue

Livery Hall
Guildhall
3 Aldermanbury
London
EC2V 7HH

Accessibility

There are 4 steps to the main entrance, with a level access entrance via the Guildhall West Wing approximately 200 feet away. There are toilets and accessible toilets via stairs or a lift to the lower ground floor. If you would like more information, or have any access requirements, please let us know what these are and how we can best accommodate these by emailing events@nla.london.