Andrew is well known in the industry for his passion and wealth of experience – much of which was gained from his 25 years with Rockwool where he worked in various roles including Head of Strategic Development, ETICS (external thermal insulation composite systems) Business Director and Marketing Director.

Andrew is supported by a volunteer board of directors made up of industry professionals and experts from all areas of the solid wall insulation market.

Richard holds a PhD in Building Physics and is also a chartered building surveyor.  He leads a task group for the development of international standards around energy performance.

Richard is the Chairman of the upcoming British Standard for Retrofit Assessment. He is also active the International Energy Agency studying the use of smart meter data to provide energy efficiency data for dwellings.

He holds a place on the SAP Scientific Integrity Group at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) which oversees the domestic energy model used in the UK. Richard is also the technical lead for the new Energy House 2 project, a building physics test lab.

Shaun Garvey is an accomplished leader, and currently is a Programme Director for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

He provides strategic oversight for initiatives to decarbonise homes and buildings. Shaun has extensive experience successfully leading complex, multi-stakeholder programmes from strategy development through implementation.

Carl Harvey works as an independent retrofit coordinator at My Home Survey Ltd, a business that Carl established in 2006 and now delivers a full suite of retrofit coordination services including Pulse air permeability testing, and as the senior retrofit coordinator at Osmosis ACD Ltd overseeing the PAS 2035 process within the business and promoting best practice in the industry.

Carl was the retrofit coordinator on the first BEIS PAS 2035:2019 demonstrator project and is a mentor for Retrofit Academy for trainees on the retrofit coordinator training course.

He established the company in 2006 to produce Home Information Packs and Energy Performance Certificates. He has held seats on various Government forums including the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and was involved in the development of the Green Deal policy. He worked with ABBE to develop several energy/retrofit courses including DEA, GDA & HEA. Developed bespoke training courses and systems for companies involved in ECO, GDHIF & MEES and was a PAS 2030 installer for external wall insulation (2015).

Having developed the methodology for auditing the domestic RHI scheme for Ofgem, Carl is now the senior site auditor for the scheme including compliance with MCS standards. 

Paul is Vice Chair at Think Active and non executive Director of the Retrofit Academy. 

His career spans retail operations, commercial and marketing management and consultancy with a number of major retailers. Paul retired from the Travis Perkins Group having established their Sustainable Building and Renewables Division. In recent years Paul has continued to provide consultancy services in the Merchant sector as well as being Vice Chair of Think Active, an Active Partnership with Sports England, charged with encouraging physical activity in underserved communities. Paul is also an artist, manages an arboretum, and works with his wife in her Garden Design business.

As part of his own consultancy CKC, he provides technical support for housing providers, and government on hard to Treat buildings, in particular hard to treat (HTT) buildings for BEIS Decarbonisation bids and SHDF he is also delivering a review of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System of MCHLG, on housing standards in the rented sector, including minimum standards and disrepair standards for habitation. He acts as Expert Witness on Building disrepair, thermal performance of energy efficiency measures and resilient buildings.

Robert heads the London office of Prewett Bizley Architects and has developed considerable expertise in low-carbon construction, particularly in the field of retrofit. He is a certified Passivhaus designer and has presented a number of ground breaking retrofit projects at Passivhaus conferences, RIBA CPD events and the award winning Retrofit Coordinator course.

Robert is a member of the RIBA Sustainable Futures Group which advises the profession and government on the incorporation of sustainability in education, standards and policy. He is a founder member of the Passivhaus Trust and a technical advisor to the STBa (Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance). He has previously been a trustee of the charity RESET that aimed to deliver training and knowledge sharing to increase resilience within our built environment, particularly in areas facing severe climate change impacts.

From 2007-11 Robert was Course Coordinator for Construction and ran a Diploma level design studio at the University of Greenwich. He studied at Bath University and the Technische Universiteit in Delft. Before setting up practice with Graham Bizley he worked in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Clare Price is Sector Lead – Built Environment at BSI. She is a Standards professional with extensive experience in sharing standards knowledge and working with industry and government to identify standards needs and deliver complex standards projects for the built environment.

She led the standards workstream in the Each Home Counts Review of energy efficiency and set up the BSI Retrofit Standards Task Group leading to the ongoing development of PAS 2035/2030 and PAS 2038 for energy efficiency retrofit.

She has worked with the Green Construction Board on the development of PAS 2080 Carbon management in buildings and infrastructure, and with ICE’s Low Carbon Concrete Group on the development of BSI Flex 350 on Alternative binder systems for lower carbon concrete.

Sarah works with the Government, BSI and other organisations to create domestic retrofit standards, guidance and training. She is a member of the Retrofit Steering Task Group set up after the Each Home Counts review, and is the technical author for the PAS 2035/2030 retrofit standard.

Sarah also has extensive experience in Passivhaus and AECB consultancy and is a Passivhaus and AECB Certifier. She has worked on over 90 certified Passivhaus dwellings across the country, and has dabbled in Passivhaus leisure centres, student accommodation, schools and more!

Paul is Professor of Energy and Building Performance where he leads on research in energy use and operational performance in non-domestic buildings. An architect with 40 years’ experience in low energy and sustainable buildings he has worked in both academia and industry and always maintained an active involvement in applied research. His current research focuses on the energy performance gap in buildings and understanding energy use in buildings at the city and national scale.

Paul is the UK alternate delegate and Vice Chair to the IEA Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Technology Collaboration Programme and he plays a leading role in EBC Annex 70, Building Energy Epidemiology.

Paul leads the Building Stock Lab at UCL Energy Institute, which works on methods for modelling stocks of buildings and their use of energy in detail, over large areas.

As the Head of Energy Engagement, Marc is accountable for the effective and efficient delivery of areas that fall under the encompassing remit that surrounds the energy supply chain assurance. Marc’s engagement and insight provide TrustMark with crucial guidance and best practices in navigating through the energy sector issues internally and externally.

Fallon is a dedicated community and housing sector professional with passion and drive, focusing on both Asset and Housing management.

With over 20 years’ experience across both the private and social housing sectors, consistently delivering high performing outcomes, her passion and motivation for creating warm and high-quality homes has led to her current role leading on the successful development of a strategic asset strategy for retrofitting hard to treat properties and delivery of multiple retrofit programmes.

An experienced Retrofit Coordinator, Climate Power Champion 2022 and project manager, Fallon strives to improve best practices in retrofit, pushing energy efficiency to a new level.