Update on PAS 2035/2030:2023: The Retrofit Standards Framework

Recorded: 24 October 2023

Timing: 12:00 – 13:00 (GMT)

What’s this PAS 2035/2030:2023: The Retrofit Standards Framework webinar about?

It’s critical that domestic energy retrofits are done to a high standard, which is set by PAS 2035/2030:2023 Retrofitting dwellings for improved energy efficiency. Specification and guidance.

This webinar will launch the 2023 updates to the standards, which will be free to download.

Our discussions will underline the importance of these standards, demonstrate how PAS 2035/2030 helps prevent damage to property, and give participants an update on developments in other areas of retrofit standards’ development.

Who should attend the PAS 2035/2030:2023: The Retrofit Standards Framework webinar?

Everyone involved in energy efficiency retrofitting including:

• retrofit co-ordinators
• retrofit assessors
• retrofit advisers
• retrofit evaluators
• retrofit designers
• installers of energy efficiency measures in existing buildings
• certification bodies.

What will participants gain?

• information on the latest changes to the two PASs
• information on the role of the retrofit standards framework
• information on the TrustMark implementation of the PASs
• the chance to put questions to our speakers
• a post-event copy of all presentations for reference and to share with colleagues.

Agenda

Welcome

Clare Price, Built Environment Sector Lead, BSI

Introduction from DESNZ

Christopher Parfitt, Home Retrofit Standards Manager

The importance of the Retrofit Standards Framework

Alex Baines, Head of Building Better, Saint-Gobain and Chair of BSI Retrofit Standards Task Group

Launch of PAS 2035/2030: 2023

Sarah Price, Technical Director QODA Consulting and Technical Author PAS 2035/2030:2023

TrustMark implementation of the PAS

Phil Mason, Head of Regulatory Engagement, TrustMark

Q&A

Close

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

She led the standards workstream in the Each Home Counts Independent Review of energy efficiency and renewable energy where she helped to define and deliver the programme of Standards development, including the PAS 2035 framework, under the Retrofit Standards Task group. A new BSI Technical Committee for Retrofit is being established in 2020. She sits on the Green Construction Board infrastructure working group to provide input on standardization for carbon management and low carbon concrete. She is Project Lead on the Built Environment Competence Standards programme.

Chris sits within the Home Decarbonisation Supply Chain team at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). As Home Retrofit Standards Manager, Chris is the DESNZ liaison representative for the PAS 2035/2030:2023 project. He is passionate about ensuring home retrofit is delivered to the best industry standards throughout the journey to Net Zero by 2050, ensuring protection for both the dwellings and its residents.

As a Technical Director at QODA Sarah has over a decade of experience in the construction industry and specialises in Passivhaus, sustainability and retrofit. Sarah has worked on over 100 certified Passivhaus buildings and dozens of retrofits projects.  She is a Chartered Engineer, an AECB expert advisor, a Passivhaus and AECB Certifier, and a member of the Retrofit Steering Task Group set up after the Each Home Counts review. Sarah is the technical author for PAS 2035:2019 and PAS 2030 retrofit standard, and the lead technical author for the BEIS Retrofit IWI, RIRI and solid floor guides, published (2021-22).  

Alex is Head of Building Better at Saint-Gobain Interior Solutions, the collective home of British Gypsum, Celotex and Isover. An expert in building physics and renewable energy, with a particular focus on human health & comfort and fuel poverty.

He is Chair of the BSI Retrofit Standards Task Group, tasked with identifying and delivering new British Standards for Retrofit, and sits on the PAS 2035 steering group. He is a co-chair of the upcoming Retrofit Coordinator Apprenticeship standard with IfATE as well as involved in several government working groups, advisory groups and industry bodies. Technical author or editor of industry guides including the Passivhaus Guide to Airtightness.

Phil is Head of Regulatory Engagement at TrustMark, focussing on developing and managing relationships with key stakeholders in the areas where TrustMark registration is mandatory.

He has a keen interest in the outcomes of the Each Home Counts review and how they contribute to the UK’s net-zero target by 2050.

This event contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being, Goal 7 on affordable and clean energy, Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure, Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12 on responsible consumption and production and Goal 13 on climate action.