DWB co-founders Richard Nelson, Leanne Tritton and Will Hurst will be leading this panel discussion at FOOTPRINT+ along with retrofit developer Steve Sanham, Founding Director of Common Projects, and consultant Becci Taylor, Director/Retrofit at Scale Lead of ARUP, exploring the policy and financial challenges of making retrofit more profitable.
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Developers face numerous uphill challenges when faced with retrofit. In order to create the conditions that encourage the reuse of buildings, rather than demolish and build new, it needs to be simpler and more profitable. The reuse of existing buildings has the potential to stimulate economic growth, meet our housing targets, create jobs, improve public health, reduce waste, all whilst working towards a net zero property industry.
There are currently numerous disincentives to retrofit such as VAT, lack of regulation of embodied carbon and/or tax on carbon emissions through. What mechanisms should be employed to remove these obstacles, and whose job is it to do so? How can we have a profitable net zero property industry?
Chairperson
Richard Nelson, Founder & Managing Director - Abyss Global & Co-Founder - Don’t Waste Buildings
Speakers
Leanne Tritton, Chair - The London Society & Co-Founder - Don’t Waste Buildings
Steve Sanham, Founding Director - Common Projects
Becci Taylor, Director/Retrofit at Scale Lead - ARUP
Will Hurst, Managing Editor - Architects Journal & Co-Founder - Don’t Waste Buildings
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