Futurebuild’s fringe programmes bring an additional layer of insight and collaboration beyond the main stages, offering visitors the opportunity to engage with focused, specialist content across the event. Taking place in dedicated spaces throughout the venue, these sessions are delivered in partnership with leading organisations and industry voices.
Explore the Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) stage, dive into practical learning with the Retrofit Academy Quality Retrofit Case Studies, and discover emerging ideas and innovation on the RISE and UKDEA Training Hub.
Together, the fringe programme enhances the Futurebuild experience spotlighting cutting-edge thinking, real-world case studies, and opportunities to connect with the people shaping the future of the built environment.
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageThis session will bring together leading non-profit organisations working in the circular economy to share and discuss current initiatives, challenges, and opportunities. Representatives from each org …ChairSpeaker
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageAn overview of current reuse infrastructure following the roundtable event "Circular Construction: Storage and Logistics" held in October 2025 with UK's most forward thinking organisations in this spa …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageThis interactive workshop explores reuse through hands-on activities and shared learning. Participants will examine a mix of reclaimed and new items and guess which is which, challenging assumptions a …Speaker
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageA shot lunchtime discussion exploring the background, objectives and strategy for ACAN's latest campaign. What are the numbers telling us about our sector's progress on Carbon reduction? Are we being …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageThree short polemics will challenge the industry on it’s future direction and concerns, which will then open up to the audience for something hopefully more like a debate than Q&A.
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageCome along for a networking opportunity with a twist: join Federica Romeo Beattie and Gizem Eren as they give an interactive introduction to the Construction Collage, a collaborative workshop which he …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageA joint initiative between ACAN and the Passivhaus Trust, this introductory session will set out how the group plans to widen and democratise access to Passivhaus tools, knowledge and networks for a n …
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( Your local time: - )Retrofit Academy Quality Retrofit Case Studies
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageA session delivered in collaboration with Leeds City Council & RISE exploring how to deliver a successful retrofit project and the challenges impacting the industry. This session will utilise the Leed …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageJoin Kate Watson, RISE Technical Support Lead at Futurebuild to learn about the powerful end to end support available to Housing Associations and their supply chain to create retrofit strategies, acce …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageDiscover the essential management activities for a successful retrofit project. This session enables you to learn how to manage teams, data, when to engage residents and overcome delivery bottlenecks. …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageJoin this reflective session exploring lessons learned and how we can drive quality and increase delivery in year 2. This is an opportunity to hear from the “coal face” of Warm Homes funded delivery o …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageDriving delivery performance through data quality. In this session we will explore the power of understanding your housing stock to improve planning and execution of your retrofit programme. How you c …
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( Your local time: - )UKDEA Training Hub
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( Your local time: - )UKDEA Training HubPete Mills has over 45 years’ experience in the heating industry and is Chair of the MEHNA Heat Networks Group, which is part of the Energy Utilities Alliance. Heat Networks have become a key focus of …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageUsing Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics as a framework, participants explore material lifecycles, and their social and environmental impacts. The workshop encourages participants to understand materia …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageIn line with Future Build’s theme of connection, ACAN Bookclub is moving offline for an in person session to discuss How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller's Guide to Changing the World …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageWhat does it mean to be a Climate Literate architect? And is it possible to have the information but not know how to apply that in practice? What do we need to do to bridge the gap between awareness a …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageArchitectural awards have been asking for carbon, energy and wider sustainability data for several years now, but to what extent is that information taken into account when selecting winners? Why is t …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageEveryone knows the benefits of timber in terms of embodied and sequestrated carbon, but how can we absolutely maximise those benefits by specifying and using local timber rather than shipping in from …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageChris Procter will share the findings of his recent research into Thin Vacuum Glazing and discuss this in the context of how local Planning Authorities in London are changing guidance within Conservat …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageSpace in the built environment is highly contested, with many stakeholders competing for access, resource, wealth, livelihoods, care, profits. The loudest voices win, predominantly humans, yet we all …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageThis session explores how organisations can shift from traditional contracting relationships to genuine partnerships that unlock successful Warm Homes retrofit delivery. We will walk through how colla …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageExplores how robust quality assurance underpins the success of the Warm Homes Plan. Unpacking clear technical standards (PAS 2035), inspection processes and strong contractor performance management wo …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageJoin us for an interactive B2B speed round session designed to support SMEs and Tier 2 contractors who want to enter or expand within the retrofit market. This practical session provides the opportuni …Speaker
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageA practical, interactive presentation with Q&A exploring how the regeneration and sensitive retrofit of historic and traditional buildings including those in conservation areas can deliver wide‑rangin …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageDelivering large‑scale retrofit through an area‑based model depends on strong collaboration across organisations and delivery partners. This session brings together a diverse panel of industry partner …
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( Your local time: - )UKDEA Training HubSteve Hunt - Development and Operations Director. The importance of Heat Utilisation for Heat Networks. We cant as a country afford to waste heat. We need to plan, utilise and manage heat export and t …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageMore than half of our homes in the UK - from Victorian townhouses to new-build flats - are at risk of overheating, which is only increasing as temperatures rise. Within a framework of speculative over …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageFuturebuild takes place in the heart of one of London’s most diverse and innovative Boroughs, but what is happening a stones throw outside of Excel that could inform the thinking of those involved in …
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageACAN is currently undertaking a participatory exercise with members to generate new campaigns for 2026. One of these will be showcased in this lunchtime session.
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageStraw building expert Michael Burchert will share latest developments and innovations in straw building from Europe.
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( Your local time: - )ACAN StageFollowing his presentation Michael Burchert will immediately lead a practical workshop with the building material of the past, and future. Michael will be assisted by students from the University of W …
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( Your local time: - )Retrofit Academy Quality Retrofit Case Studies
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( Your local time: - )Retrofit Academy Quality Retrofit Case Studies
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageThis session digs deeper into how we can ensure we are retrofitting houses to suit the end user (the residents), following on from Claire Brown’s speaker opportunity: Empowering Residents: Offering pe …
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( Your local time: - )RISE StageSocial value is a core consideration within publicly funded retrofit programmes, yet it can risk becoming a compliance exercise rather than delivering meaningful outcomes. This session explores how or …
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( Your local time: - )UKDEA Training HubSeminar description: Supporting a Complex District Heat Network Across New-Build and Heritage Buildings at Springfield Village Delivering reliable, low-carbon heat across complex developments requires …
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