The Energy Efficiency Partnership for Buildings (EEPB) has signed up as a leading strategic partner for Retro Expo, the UK's leading exhibition and conference dedicated to low carbon refurbishment.
The collaboration will result in the EEPB bringing together many of the key trade associations and industry bodies live at Retro Expo, taking place at the NEC, Birmingham from November 5-6.
EEPB coordinates action across the diverse supply chains to promote energy efficiency retrofit in buildings and overcome barriers. Membership includes leading Green Deal Providers such as Kingfisher, Knauf, nPower and British Gas as well as not for profit organisations such as the National Energy Foundation, the Association for the Conservation of Energy and Warm Zones.
Speaking on behalf of the EEPB, Director Mark Brown commented: "The energy efficiency market has never had greater opportunities or challenges than it faces today. Retro Expo is an opportunity to bring everybody together in one place at one time to face up to these challenges. Retro Expo can do for retrofit what Ecobuild did for the low carbon new build sector."
Speaking on behalf of Retro Expo, Director David Pierpoint said: "Retro Expo is the retrofit industry's show, and the EEPB do a superb job of engaging with that industry at all levels. The EEPB see a need to bring all the niches of the sector together to accelerate the national retrofit programme, and we look forward to working closely with Mark and his team to deliver that."
New attractions for Retro Expo 2013 - 3 new zones, Free Summit and best practice seminars
This year's Retro Expo features a FREE Summit delivered in partnership with EEPB, 3 new zones and a series of retrofit seminars showcasing innovations and best practice.
Building on last year's successful Summit, this year's agenda features a domestic and a non-domestic stream. Targeted at local authorities and social landlords, private landlords, non-domestic stock owners and asset managers the core themes of the Summit will be ‘Retrofit for People' and ‘Scaling Up Retrofit'.
New Zones for 2013 will be:
- Traditional Building Retrofit - an area dedicated to retrofitting hard to treat solid wall properties, conservation areas and heritage buildings - the kinds of property that are often financed by the ECO
- Retrofit Water Management - With water demand increasing, the UK's water infrastructure creaking and exceptional weather events giving rise to unprecedented levels of flooding, addressing water demand and management are extremely active policy areas.
- Retrofit Waste - if 27 million homes and 1.4 million commercial properties are to be retrofitted over the next 40 years, it is going to create significant waste. This area focuses on how this can be reduced, re-used and recycled.
