Speakers

Sara Edmonds is an architect and activist, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub, with a mission to enable the local, equitable delivery of retrofit at scale. She co-founded Home Energy Action Lab (HEAL), a community benefit society for advocating for social and climate justice in retrofit locally.

She previously ran and directed Studio seARCH, an architecture consultancy advocating for systemic change in low-carbon domestic retrofit. She held the role of Head of Citizen Engagement at Built Environment – Smarter Transformation, was coordinator in the Architects Climate Action Network, and worked as a social housing associate at the Passivhaus Trust.

Driven by the climate emergency, Sara focuses on connecting grassroots, community-led initiatives with top-down strategies to achieve meaningful, systemic change in the built environment, with collaboration at the heart of her approach.