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Eco-furb course at KT City Farm

Permablitz London is running an eco-refurbishment course at Kentish Town City Farm in April 2024.

There are a few spaces available and the cost is £250 if booked before 1st March 2024. You can book by filling in this form and transferring the money: https://forms.gle/VYcdfuFuwSM7vQFUA

The course will be delivered by Nick Parsons, one of the UK’s leading experts in eco-refurbishment, assisted by permaculture designer and trainer Hugh Livingstone from Permablitz London.

The course will cover:

  • Find out how to make critical improvements to your home or other space to make it more comfortable, cheaper to run and better for the environment.
  • Learn about energy efficiency, renewable energy, water re-use and conservation, healthy buildings and avoiding hazardous building materials.
  • This course will equip attendees with the practical understanding to plan their own eco-refurbishment of an existing building, and to transform it into a cosy, low impact, energy efficient home or other space.

Topics will include:

  • Solid wall insulation.
  • Insulating materials, from the commonly available to the cutting edge, including the practical issues and compromises associated with each.
  • U-values of materials and understanding the heat loss of buildings.
  • Airtightness and vapour control.
  • Renewable energy options and sustainable water systems.
  • Informal discussion on your own eco-refurbishment project.
  • If you’re looking to turn your building into an energy-efficient, low impact home or office space, this course will help you understand where to start and give you the skills and knowledge to choose the best methods and materials to suit your needs.

There are more details here:

Eco Refurbishment Course
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Retrofit Kentish Town’s launch event

We are delighted that so many people came to our first event on Monday, held at the Greenwood Centre in Kentish Town. We had some great speakers and good discussions afterwards. We hope to be able to share the presentations shortly. Retrofit Kentish Town will be planning further activities and talks- if you would like to help organise these please contact us at retrofitkentishtown@gmail.com to join the working group.

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RKT launch event 27th November

Please join us for our launch event at the Greenwood Centre, 37 Greenwood Place, NW5 1LB.

Come and talk with neighbours and experts about how to save energy and reduce carbon emissions. Learn how to make your home more comfortable and healthy while helping to tackle climate breakdown.

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Retrofit Exhibition at the Building Centre

Until October 12th you can visit this exhibition- Retrofit 23: Towards Deep Retrofit of Homes at Scale. Address: 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT.

Retrofit 23 looks at how we achieve residential retrofitting at scale and focuses on how improving the performance of a home brings economic, social, and environmental benefits.

The need to retrofit existing buildings is currently one of the biggest challenges in the built environment and will be for the next 20 years if we are to meet the government’s target of net zero by 2050.

https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/whats_on/exhibitions/retrofit2023

It has a wide variety of information about what is happening around the country, including examples of community retrofit initiatives. One example is Civic Square in Ladywood, Brimingham, a community building organisation dedicated to advancing a just transition for the local neighbourhood, who are working on the idea of street-scale retrofit.

@Civic Square