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SHDF Wave 3: Policy and Practice Webinar

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The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 3 is at the forefront of our efforts to create sustainable, energy-efficient social housing. On our webinar, we will delve deep into the critical policies driving this initiative and the practical applications that are transforming our housing landscape.

We have an exciting line up of speakers who will share their insights and experiences, offering a comprehensive understanding of how SHDF Wave 3 is shaping the future of social housing.

The details:
Date: Friday 23rd August 2024
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Where: Zoom

Topics:​

 ​National Housing Federation:
- Overview of SHDF so far​
- The 2030 Challenge​
  • - NHF Position​
  • Greater Manchester SHDF Lessons Learnt​:
  • - Overview of GMCA's Housing Retrofit Approach​
  • - Details and Impact of SHDF Wave 1 and Wave 2.1​
  • - Challenges and Lessons Learned
  • LivGreen:
  • - Data – verification of data will almost certainly be required for Challenge Fund
  • - Demonstrating a clear understanding of budgets and costing
  • - Delivery assurance: demonstrating a clear understanding of this
  • - What route is best for us – Challenge Fund or Strategic

If you are unable to attend the webinar, please book a recap session with one of our consultants who will discuss the webinar with you and ways of moving forward.

 

Highlights and Q&A Video

To see the full highlights video or discuss the webinar in more detail, please contact us on contact@livgreen.co.uk

 

 

Key Speakers/Q&A Panellists

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Rolfe Edwards - LivGreen

Senior Retrofit Consultant 

Rolfe is a Senior Retrofit Consultant at LivGreen, a specialist decarbonisation contractor for social and private landlords. With over 10 years of experience in the hospitality design and manufacturing industry where Rolfe shaped and delivered carbon reduction strategies on an international level. Rolfe is passionate about helping landlords achieve energy efficiency and net zero carbon emissions across their housing portfolio, delivering high-quality and cost-effective solutions and bring long term strategic thinking down to short terms plans to deliver key client objectives.

 

 

 

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Rory Hughes - National Housing Federation

Policy Officer

Rory Hughes is a Policy Officer at the National Housing Federation who specialises in home retrofit and heat decarbonisation. 

 Rory will discuss the experience of housing associations with the SHDF to date, the future of the fund and what other policy change is needed to ensure housing associations can continue to be at the forefront of tackling the climate crisis. 

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Anees Mank - Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Programme and Policy Lead – Retrofit

Anees is a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner with over 25 years’ experience in Housing and Regeneration, Energy Efficiency, and Fuel Poverty. 

He has been leading the delivery of over £100m of funding through the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery Scheme (GHG LAD), Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF), Energy Company Obligation (ECO4), Great British Insulation Scheme (GBIS), Local Authority Flexible Eligibility Scheme (LA Flex), and Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) across Greater Manchester. 

He is also involved in negotiating the inclusion of some of this retrofit funding in a Single Settlement under Greater Manchester’s Trailblazer Devolution Deal.

 

 

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Kate Watson- Principle Consultant

Turner and Townsend

Kate is a Principal Consultant in the Sustainability Team at Turner & Townsend. Kate is a workstream lead on the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero funded Technical Assistance Facility (RISE), heading up a team of technical consultants who provide 1:1 bespoke advice to local authorities and housing providers keen to benefit from government funding to support their compliance with EPC C targets and net zero ambitions. Kate also leads our Social Housing ESG team who have provided baselining and year on year data analysis to support improvements against targets. Kate has 15 years’ experience in the retrofit at scale sector, having previously delivered government funded retrofit schemes for local authorities and social housing providers, across all three tenures