West Midlands Retrofit Summit 2025

Designed specifically for local/combined authority officers, installers, contractors, consultants, community organisations, surveyors, architects, academics, landlords, and sector organisations.

Who's it for?

The West Midlands Retrofit Summit, hosted by West Midlands Combined Authority, follows the perenially popular, tried-and-tested format of our other regional retrofit summits and is created for everyone working in retrofit at-scale, community retrofit and on individual home retrofit projects - specifically, local/combined authority officers, installers, contractors, consultants, community organisations, surveyors, academics, landlords and green economy organisations around the West Midlands.

Format

The Summit runs online on Zoom Events over Tues 13, Weds 14 & Thurs 15 May 2025 (08.45-12.30hrs) offering presentations, speaker Q&A discussion, themed break-outs and informal networking each morning.

The Summit programme is being produced in conjunction with our Host Partner WMCA and the regional Advisory Group to ensure local perspectives, needs and objectives are at the heart of the event.

Hear from leading lights in low carbon housing

Focused, fast-paced and 100% retrofit-focused speaker programme curated with our regional Advisory Group - and specifically aimed at local/combined authority officers, installers, contractors, consultants, community organisations, surveyors, academics, landlords, architects and green economy and sector organisations.

Question, discuss & debate

Facilitated Q&A each morning allows you to pose your burning questions to the experts - and get answers! - then chat directly with them in the breakouts.

Each AM session allows plenty of time for discussion with speakers and peers.

Summits are informal friendly events designed to facilitate learning and information-sharing.

Find trusted solutions providers

Join morning breakout rooms to explore the latest low-carbon tech & solutions, meet the teams behind them, and see how they can benefit your projects.

Recent themes have included: removing barriers, tenant engagement, social value to support retrofit skills, ventilation; thermal bridging, air-tightness. unlocking finance, funding barriers, leveraging multiple funding streams, building partnerships, retrofit support metrics and benchmarking, carbon cashback, strategies for improving air quality...

AM1:

Drop into sessions to suit | Final programme TBA

08.45hrs: Logging in and early chats

09.00hrs: Welcome & Overview

09:10hrs: Meet our Thought Leaders

09:15hrs: Presentations

10:30hrs: Breakout Rooms

11..00hrs: The Big Debate: Speaker Q&A

11.40hrs: AM2 Preview + Themed Breakouts and discussion

12.00hrs: Morning closes

AM2:

Drop into sessions to suit | Final programme TBA

08.45hrs: Logging in and early chats

09.00hrs: Welcome & Overview

09:10hrs: Meet our Thought Leaders

09:15hrs: Presentations

10:30hrs: Breakout Rooms

11..00hrs: The Big Debate: Speaker Q&A

11.40hrs: AM3 Preview + Themed Breakouts and discussion

12.00hrs: Morning closes

Register to access the event and stay updated on the programme.

AM3:

Drop into sessions to suit | Final programme TBA

08.45hrs: Logging in and early chats

09.00hrs: Welcome & Overview

09:10hrs: Meet our Thought Leaders

09:15hrs: Presentations

10:30hrs: Breakout Rooms

11..00hrs: The Big Debate: Speaker Q&A

11.40hrs: Themed Breakouts and discussion

12.00hrs: Summit closes

Bath and West Community Energy (BWCE) is a not-for-profit, member-led organization focused on local ownership and control of renewable energy, benefiting communities and contributing to the UK's community energy movement.

We offer a range of retrofit measures that can help to improve the energy efficiency of your home, making it cosier and more affordable to heat. The following sections will provide with information on the various energy efficiency measures that we offer, as well as some educational resources to to help you get a better understanding of the improvements that you could make to your home.

The charity supporting people and organisations across the UK to tackle the climate emergency and end the suffering caused by cold homes.

Find details of local industry events, support, networks and contact information
CITB Advisers can support and guide you in terms of accessing CITB training, grants, funding and apprenticeships. In addition, they can signpost you to other sources of support, help and advice, including local partners and networks, for example LEPs, Growth Hubs and local initiatives.

We give organisations the space, knowledge, contacts and tools to accelerate their sustainability journey and progress towards net zero.

Retrofit West Advice is a West of England Mayoral Combined Authority project. It is part of a wider retrofit project that aims to build the supply chain, supporting local businesses and delivering green skills development for residents.

We aim for a stable climate and universal energy access by helping people overcome fuel poverty and offering advice on energy efficiency and renewables. With 25 years of experience, we assist various groups in managing energy use, staying warm, reducing costs, and supporting the UK's net zero goals.

At The Eco Scheme, we continuously monitor grants to offer you the best funding solutions for energy efficiency, saving money, and promoting a greener world.

The Green Register has been training construction professionals for over 20 years to enhance sustainability in building practices. As an independent, non-profit organization, it relies on member and collaborator support to improve industry standards, with a focus on quality and sustainability.

The climate, nature, and cost of living emergencies are key priorities for the West of England Combined Authority. We are investing £10 million in retrofit to help address the challenges associated with making home retrofit achievable for everyone.

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The sessions have been excellent...so user-friendly and slick. Makes such a difference from other conferences I've attended

Retrofit Advisor - attendee, Glasgow Retrofit Summit 2025

You guys are great, very inspiring, you've made the day for me, thank-you 👏🏼

Local Authority officer - attendee, Birmingham Retrofit Summit 2024

A great event to attend. Met an awful lot of interesting people from a lot of different backgrounds, social housing providers, contractors, installers. It's particularly useful to see how different people can speak to each other about retrofit

Architect - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023

Nice and compact…plenty of time to have a good chat with everyone - met some good people and you see the highlights. The workshops were very interesting which led to making some good relationships with architects and different builders and stuff that's going to be a good working relationship going forward

Housing officer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023

Summit Attendee round (trans background)

Thanks everyone for all the lovely conversations and talks - very insightful

Project Manager - attendee, Birmingham Retrofit Summit 2024

My main takeaway today was meeting the guys on the CITB training stall - that was absolutely outstanding

Energy engineer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023

I think strengthening the kind of network of contacts and the retrofit industry in the Northwest was the most important thing for us. Meeting contractors and people who are interested in pushing retrofit forward, whether that be social housing providers, whether that be community groups, that sort of thing - looking at how it can be done at scale

Retrofitter & installer - visitor, The Home Upgrade Show, Manchester 2023