Eleven industry experts have been appointed to the new Homes and Housing Advisory Board convened by Connected Places Catapult.
The purpose of the group is to find ways to join up existing efforts to support the development of place-based approaches, with demonstrable outcomes for health and wellbeing of residents and climate resilience. The appointed members represent the views of various industry stakeholders including local authorities, innovators, traders, residents (including fuel poor and vulnerable people), and the government.
Connected Places Catapult’s Executive Director, Dr Wolfgang Schuster, said:
I am delighted to have this diverse membership and experience on our Homes and Housing Advisory Board. Over the last 20 years, significant efforts have gone into retrofitting homes in the UK to improve energy efficiency and health, but the sector is still highly fragmented.We are hoping that this group will bring together existing knowledge and efforts to find tangible ways of accelerating action on retrofit for health and climate resilience, and advise on the Catapult’s areas of focus to shape this into a well-functioning market that meets the needs of our society today and into the future.
Rafe Bertram, Built Environment Sustainability Lead, Enfield Council
Carlotta Conte-Billant, TreesAI Lead, Dark Matter Labs
Nigel Donohue, Chief Executive, The Installation Assurance Authority and Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency
Sara Edmonds, Co-director, National Retrofit Hub
Richard Harding, Health and Social Housing Business Development Lead, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (UKSTFC)
Holly Holder, Deputy Director for Homes, Centre for Ageing Better
Alastair Mumford, Programme Director, The MCS Foundation
Dr Kate Simpson, Associate Professor, Nottingham Trent University; Visiting Researcher, Imperial College London
Becci Taylor, Director, Building Decarbonisation and Resilience, Arup
Joanne Wheeler, Senior Local Policy & Retrofit Manager, UK Green Building Council
Guy Woodroffe, Head of Policy, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
