Retrofit and Re-use First : The City’s journey to net-zero

The recent update to the draft 2040 City Plan lays down a firm challenge to all involved in the City’s built environment - a policy to ‘retrofit and re-use first’ to get to net zero carbon.

- What does this mean for development, investment and design?
- What does it do to viability?

We can’t refit every building
- Is new build over?
- How can buildings provide what employers and employees need post-Covid - to ‘earn the commute’ - if new build is too difficult?
- Does the answer lie between retrofit and smart design and specification alongside dis-assembly, re-use and recycling within a circular economy?

Join us as our expert panel considers these ongoing challenges to the City's property economy.

Chaired by Michelle McDowell MBE, non-executive director Civil Engineers, our panel comprises:

Dr Barbara Marino, Strategic Development and Compliance Director at Keltbray
Kirsten Kane, Principal Planning Officer (Sustainability) at the City of London Corporation
Tina Paillet, Co-Founder of Circotrade and current President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors