Retrofit Summit 2025

Hear how London’s built environment is addressing the challenges, policies, and opportunities in scaling retrofit for a more resilient city.

Join this NLA Retrofit Summit, sponsored by WilkinsonEyre and CIVIC, part of NLA’s Adaptive London research and programming, to hear how London’s built environment is addressing the challenges, policies, and opportunities in scaling retrofit for a more resilient city.

By 2050, 80% of London’s existing building stock will need to be retrofitted to meet net-zero targets, posing a significant challenge to the built environment industries. Retrofitting presents an opportunity not only to drive down carbon emissions, but to boost economic activity, improve health and wellbeing, and support a more climate-resilient city, while retaining the architectural character and heritage that define London.

This NLA Retrofit Summit brings together senior leaders from local government, policy, planning, and the built environment sector to discuss the power of adaptive reuse in addressing the following critical themes that are driving the retrofit agenda in London.

The summit will cover key topics, spanning policy, commercial viability, planning and heritage, skills and supply chains in commercial and residential retrofit and the innovations that are driving the future of retrofit across the city.

This summit will explore these issues, learn from best practices and discuss ways in which we can accelerate the path to a greener, more sustainable city.

Please note the capacity for this event is very limited and therefore tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis, with a maximum of 3 per organisation.

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Hannah-Jameson_London-Councils.pdf
Marion-Baeli_10-Design.pdf
Laura-Jenkinson_Avison-Young.pdf
Andrew-Wholley_Mott-Macdonald.pdf
James-Atherton_The-Crown-Estate.pdf
Michael-Clark_Hadley-Property-Group.pdf
Yetunde-Abdul_UKGBC.pdf
Tom-Foxall_Historic-England.pdf
Gareth-Atkinson-&-Harriet-Browning_CIVIC.pdf
Nick-Jarman_Stanhope.pdf

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Speaker biographies

Yasmin Al-Ani Spence

Director, WilkinsonEyre

Gareth Atkinson

Director, Civic

Catherine Staniland

Director, NLA

Tom Foxall

Regional Director, Historic England

Richard Nelson MIoD

Co-Founder, Don’t Waste Buildings

Penny Vinten

Head of Business Development, Overbury

Hannah Jameson

Climate Change Programme Director, London Councils

Cllr Geoff Barraclough

Cabinet Member for Planning & Economic Development, City of Westminster

Michael Clark

Design Director, Hadley Property Group

Anna Hollyman

Co-Head of Policy & Places, UKGBC

Ruth Oates

Director, Buro Four

Nick Jarman

Senior Development Director, Stanhope PLC

Kathryn Thomas

Managing Director, Citygroup

Marion Baeli

Sustainability Transformation, 10 Design

Andrew Wholley

Technical Principal, Mott MacDonald

Harriet Browning

Senior Associate & Sustainability Lead, Civic

James Atherton

Development Director, The Crown Estate

Tom Burke

Head of the Design, Conservation & Sustainability, City of Westminster

Laura Jenkinson

Principal, Planning Consultancy, Avison Young

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

Guests will enter via the Guildhall West Wing entrance, approximately 200 feet away from The London Centre. The West Wing entrance has level access entrance and there are accessible toilets at ground level once through security. All guests will be asked to put any bags and/or large items through bag scanners on arrival. 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.