Join us for an evening of talks and discussions focusing on How We Make Our Older Homes Energy Efficient. We have guest speakers working across the industry who will explore what it takes to retrofit older properties.
24 Apr 2025, 17:30 – 19:30 at Imagine Leeds
About the Event
Join People Powered Homes who are hosting a housing event with Wrapt Homes
Older and traditional homes are the worst performing homes in the UK and at the same time the most difficult to upgrade. To name a few this includes Yorkshire Stone Terraces, Back to Back Bricks and Victorian townhouses accounting for around 25% UKs housing stock.
Join us for an evening of talks and discussions focusing on How We Make Our Older Homes Energy Efficient. We have guest speakers working across the industry who will explore what it takes to retrofit older properties.
Free tickets, registration required only 30 spaces available.
More about our speakers:
Jamie Keats and Colin Munro – Wrapt Homes
Jamie and Colin a founders of Wrapt Homes, a Yorkshire based business delivering energy efficiency works with a specialism in older and traditional buildings. Founded in 2022 Wrapt work with homeowners, landlords and housing associations simplifying the process of delivering energy efficiency measures. They are now a team of 10 delivering Energy Advice, Design and Construction works. Wrapt’s mission is to make the process of upgrading your home quick, easy and affordable. They working alongside the AMRC at Sheffield University, to develop new and quicker methods for upgrading homes.
Andrew Gardner, Director Above Ground – Sataire Retrofit Reimagined.
In a world full of home insulation nightmare stories, ill-informed generic advice and pushy sales how can we regain the trust of communities and homeowners that working on their homes to reduce energy use and improve comfort will give genuine benefits?
2 years ago we started by asking Saltaire residents about their own experiences of living in and working on their grade 2 listed homes. Since then we have run events, including depressurising a typical terraced house on a cold day while letting residents explore with thermal cameras, and commissioned some of the best technical advice available.
Our recently published handbooks bring everything together in an accessible and attractive format that you want to pick up and read in a local coffee shop.
In the background we have been retrofitting a ordinary Saltaire house to a level defined not by national standards but everything we now know about Saltaire. We are expecting it to perform like a 21st century home while also having its heritage character restored.
We think projects like this can help bridge the gap between communities and the advice and installations they are offered, allowing a better standard of work, improving trust in the process and ultimately increasing uptake and climate impact.
To book your place visit: https://www.climateactionleeds.org.uk/event-details/how-we-make-our-older-homes-energy-efficient
