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Futurebuild’s Connect365 Webinars are your gateway to year-round access to expert insights, innovation and industry discussions, keeping you connected to the people, ideas and solutions driving a more sustainable built environment. This inspiring series of webinars brings together thought leaders, disruptors and decision-makers to explore the latest challenges and opportunities shaping the sector.
Whether you’re looking to stay ahead of trends, learn from experts or engage with the built environment community, Connect365 is your platform for continuous learning and building meaningful connections.
Catch up on past sessions below and stay connected for upcoming live webinars!
15 May 2025, Sponsored by Sustainable Building Services and Rykneld Homes
Join us for an insightful session featuring Derek Horrocks, Chairman of Sustainable Building Services and founder of the National Home Decarbonisation Group, alongside Niall Clark, Deputy Managing Director of Rykneld Homes. Hear lessons learned, best practices, and how an area-based approach is enabling retrofit decarbonisation at scale across all housing tenure types. Gain valuable insights into how collaboration is delivering real benefits for households, communities, and local authorities through the Warm Homes: Local Grant and Social Housing Fund schemes.
Sponsored by Sustainable Building Services
This session explored lessons learned, best practices, and how an area-based approach enabled retrofit decarbonisation at scale across all housing tenure types. It offered valuable insights into how collaboration delivered real benefits for households, communities, and local authorities through the Warm Homes: Local Grant and Social Housing Fund schemes.
Sponsored by The Innovate UK
This webinar focused on the importance of reusing materials in construction to cut carbon emissions and drive sustainability, urging a shift from a linear to a circular economy mindset. Speakers explored the value and origins of new materials, highlighting innovations like the Cement to Zero project and low-emission steel production using electric arc furnaces. Seven Steel UK’s recycling-led approach was showcased as a strong example of industry-led climate action.
Sponsored by The National Retrofit Hub
The session highlighted the critical role of accurate and reliable Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) in driving household energy efficiency improvements. Speakers called for clearer cost and carbon metrics, interactive features like personalised estimations, and smarter technologies to improve thermal performance assessments. The discussion also emphasised the need for better data to support informed decision-making by homeowners.
Sponsored by The Anti-Greenwash Charter
The webinar addressed widespread concerns about greenwashing, with 90% of businesses believing it undermines the industry and 74% acknowledging its potential to damage reputations. Speakers explored the commercial risks, including how 58% of businesses would sever ties over a greenwashing allegation, and stressed the need for evidence-backed claims to maintain trust. Strategies were shared to help companies navigate ESG marketing responsibly and ensure sustainability efforts are both ethical and credible.
Connect365 webinars bring together leading experts to explore pressing industry topics, innovative solutions, and technical challenges shaping the built environment. These interactive sessions offer your audience the chance to learn, ask questions, and engage in real-time discussion with fellow professionals and thought leaders.
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with futurebuild15 May 2025, Sponsored by Sustainable Building Services and Rykneld Homes
Join us for an insightful session featuring Derek Horrocks, Chairman of Sustainable Building Services and founder of the National Home Decarbonisation Group, alongside Niall Clark, Deputy Managing Director of Rykneld Homes. Hear lessons learned, best practices, and how an area-based approach is enabling retrofit decarbonisation at scale across all housing tenure types. Gain valuable insights into how collaboration is delivering real benefits for households, communities, and local authorities through the Warm Homes: Local Grant and Social Housing Fund schemes.
Sponsored by The Anti-Greenwash Charter
Innovate UK hosted a session exploring the transformative potential of the Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA) to encourage circularity in construction. The session examined how standards and regulations have been driving innovation and circularity, with a particular focus on the RICS WLCA standard. Speakers discussed how these standards could be further developed to push the boundaries and achieve step changes in embedding circularity into the design and development of the built environment.
Futurebuild’s Connect365 Webinars are your gateway to year-round engagement, learning, and business growth through an inspiring series of on-demand and live webinars. Designed to keep the conversation going beyond the main event, these sessions bring together pioneering voices, critical thinkers, and change-makers from across the built environment.
Whether you’re a disruptor with a new solution or an established leader seeking fresh perspectives, the Connect365 Webinars offer unparalleled access to insight, inspiration, and industry-wide engagement.
Stay tuned for new live sessions launching throughout the year and catch up on all past webinars now on demand.
Sustainability is a powerful force for positive change and one which is driving transformation, innovation and improvement across all aspects of society. And it wouldn’t work quite so well without the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart technology.
In this panel debate, hear from construction and infrastructure experts, passionate about delivering a smarter, safer and greener Britain through the way we design and build. You will hear about the modern methods of construction they have adopted and are using right now, plus what smart cities and smart technology mean for the built environment and how using lean construction is changing our perception of how we build.
In partnership with 540 WORLD
The demand for integrated control of heating, lighting, access and AV in residential and commercial buildings is growing. Awareness of the advantages of smart building technologies increased to 71% in 2021.
KNX is reshaping the future of building automation by combining over 8000 products available across 500+ suppliers and thus giving you the option to choose among literally hundreds of compatible devices that speak the same language.
In this webinar, experts from the KNX UK National Group discuss the freedom that comes with an open protocol system.
Over the past 12 months, conversations centred around the National Digital Twin, Smart Buildings, Net Zero, Golden Thread, Building Safety Act compliance and most recently how to attracting workers back to the office have all served to shine a spotlight on how much we actually know about our built assets and estates. These conversations are prompting discussions on the digitalisation of estates to exploit the data and drive insights. This virtual panel discussion will provide some practical insights and approaches into how you should approach this and why it’s important to start taking action now.
This discussion facilitated by John Adams will explore these issues.
In this interactive webinar, they will not only showcase the various bio-inspired and bio-integrated self-healing polymers and glasses they have developed but also discuss the opportunities that these might offer to the construction industry through a facilitated round table discussion. This will be concluded with a Q&A session from the audience, so please do come along ready to contribute and explore the topic of self-healing materials for the built environment.
Sponsored by Manufacturing Immortality
Within this webinar, you will hear from the ESPRC funded consortium Manufacturing Immortality, a multidisciplinary research collaboration between seven UK universities: the University of Bristol, University of Exeter, Heriot-Watt University, Lancaster University, The University of Manchester, Northumbria University Newcastle and Sheffield Hallam University.
In this interactive webinar, they will not only showcase the various bio-inspired and bio-integrated self-healing polymers and glasses they have developed but also discuss the opportunities that these might offer to the construction industry.
Sponsored by
Wednesday 05 May 2021 – 12pm (BST)
05 May 2021, in partnership with Manufacturing Immortality
This interactive webinar showcased the various bio-inspired and bio-integrated self-healing polymers and glasses the Manufacturing Immortality researchers have developed, and also discuss the opportunities that these might offer to the construction industry.
17 March 2021, in partnership with Glider
In this panel debate, we look at how COVID-19 has specifically affected our cities and their urban landscape. Unquestionably, COVID-19 has had a profound impacted on our cities and has led to a need to rethink the dimensions of our cities form a social, cultural, economic, and environmental perspective.
27 January 2021, in partnership with Glider
In this panel debate, hear from construction and infrastructure experts, passionate about delivering a smarter, safer and greener Britain through the way we design and build. You will hear about the modern methods of construction they have adopted and are using right now, plus what smart cities and smart technology mean for the built environment and how using lean construction is changing our perception of how we build.
10 December 2020, in partnership with 540 World
In this webinar, we heard from game-changing pioneers who profile what world-class, material innovations and circular business cases look like through showcasing world-first material innovations, from fibre-board to facades, timber, and parquet to carper tiles, exemplifying the very best of authentic sustainability through best-in-class, sustainably accredited Cradle to Cradle Certified™ materials.
26 November 2020, in partnership with 540 World
In this webinar, we heard from game-changing pioneers who profile what world-class, material innovations and circular business cases look like through showcasing world-first material innovations, from lighting to tiles, glass to paint, showcasing the very best of authentic sustainability through best-in-class, sustainably certified innovative materials.
18 November 2020, in partnership with Glider
In this debate we heared from AEC professionals who work cross-continents on the delivery of BIM on construction and infrastructure projects. They will be discussing the benefits of international standards, plus some of the challenges it brings with it.
28 October 2020, in partnership with Glider
In this virtual panel debate, we will discuss what digital tools we need to not only survive but to thrive, win new work and secure the future of our teams and our organisations. We will begin by defining what digital transformation means and how to develop your digital investment strategy. Starting from design and build stages through to digital asset information management. Join leading digital construction experts for this fascinating webinar, in partnership with Glider.
28 October 2020, in partnership with UKDEA
Speakers from the Government and the sector talk about the current policy and plans for heat networks, including the new Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) which is targeted at decarbonisation of planned or existing heat networks. The Project Director for Heat Networks from BEIS speaks on this webinar. You can also hear from a practitioner from the London Borough of Haringey about their plans to create an area-wide heat network across the borough using recovered heat.
17 September 2020, in partnership with 540 WORLD
540 WORLD believes that the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program is undoubtedly the leading, multi-attribute, multi-industry, science-based standard for verifying products for the circular economy – a program that rigorously examines products through multiple categories, particularly through material health, circularity, clean air and climate protection, water and soil stewardship and social fairness.
This fantastic collaboration of experts explains gold standard sustainability at it’s very best for the health of people and planet in this one-hour webinar followed by an open question time.
18 August 2020, in partnership with Osmosis and The Retrofit Academy
In October, the government will start to invest £2 billion into domestic retrofit in just six months – the first public retrofit investment and the start of a national retrofit project that will last thirty years. The appropriateness of the materials, products and technologies deployed will largely determine the success or failure of this bold initiative.
In this webinar, we examine what existing products and technologies get the thumbs up from leading retrofit architects. We also examine what pieces of the retrofit jigsaw are still needed.
22 July 2020, in partnership with Glider
To mark the return of the spotlight area Digital Impact at Futurebuild 2021, we invited some of the construction industry’s leading digital construction experts to join us in discussing the impact of the Digital Twin on the built environment. Watch on demand as our panelists discuss what you can and cannot expect to accomplish with Digital Twins and gain insight into the UK’s Information Management Framework driving the inception of an ecosystem of connected digital twins; the National Digital Twin.
24 June 2020, in partnership with MCS
The Clean Heat Grant Scheme (CHGS) is one part of a larger consultation package from BEIS as part of its ‘Future Support for Low Carbon Heat’. It sets out plans for successor arrangements to the current Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. The panel in this webinar explore and debate some of the key themes of the consultation including the Clean Heat Grant as well as the impact of the different renewable technology types.
Futurebuild 2021 will remain true to the roots of ecobuild by standing out as the only event to have a higher purpose, to be a catalyst for change. The passion for innovation and real change will extend beyond the world class knowledge programme, across the entire exhibition floor and showcase innovation like never before.
