This webinar took place on Tuesday 24th February 2026
With the UK government’s Warm Homes Plan now officially announced, energy efficiency and retrofit policy are back at the top of the national agenda. The plan sets out up to £15 billion of public investment over this parliament to upgrade up to five million homes, cut energy bills, tackle fuel poverty and support net zero goals by promoting solar panels, heat pumps and low-carbon technologies with a mix of grants and new low or zero interest loans.
This webinar, the first in a series supported by Knauf Energy Solutions, was chaired by Professor David Glew, Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute and a board member of the Good Homes Alliance, and will look at how Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) methods are essential to turning policy ambition into real benefits for households and for climate outcomes.
Professor Glew was be joined by Barry Lynham from Knauf Energy Solutions who will present on Knauf’s SMETERS work, showing how smart metering and monitoring data can help build the evidence base needed to improve retrofit quality and ensure delivered performance matches design expectations.
We were also delighted to be joined by Rachael Owens, Co-Director of the National Retrofit Hub who will help ‘set the scene’ by updating how the Warm Homes Plan will impact the wider retrofit agenda.
Plus, we’ll heard from Carly Woodbridge, Lead Projects Manager at Clarion Housing Group who will provide the housing association perspective on how BPE could be utilised as part of the Warm Homes Plan to ensure good outcomes for their tenants, building stock and the environment, including lessons learned from past post occupancy evaluation (POE) and resident engagement projects.
This session is especially relevant for local authorities, housing providers, designers, contractors and retrofit practitioners who are interested in practical pathways to delivering the Warm Homes Plan’s objectives.
Chapters and presentations
00:00:00 Welcome and introduction: Professor David Glew, Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute and a board member of the Good Homes Alliance
00:07:03 How the Warm Homes Plan will impact the wider retrofit agenda: Rachael Owens, Co-Director of the National Retrofit Hub
00:16:59 Knauf’s SMETERS work: Barry Lynham, Knauf Energy Solutions
00:34:20 The housing association perspective on how BPE could be utilised as part of the Warm Homes Plan to ensure good outcomes for their tenants, building stock and the environment: Carly Woodbridge, Lead Projects Manager at Clarion Housing Group
00:50:34 Q&A
