In this webinar, Bob Prewett discusses his practice's approach to intervening in existing dwellings and what they believe constitutes ‘retrofit’. He describes how a client’s brief for an ‘extreme retrofit’ in 2008 gave him ‘something bigger than architecture to think about’. He explains how fabric upgrades alongside heat pump technology offers the potential for deep low carbon retrofit in what he calls ‘fabric and…

He will also share how they are increasingly taking into account embodied carbon as part of a whole life carbon approach.

Bob Prewett co-founded Prewett Bizley Architects in 2005 after five years at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and working abroad in Belgium and the Netherlands. He is a founder member of Passivhaus Trust and lectures regularly on retrofit, including at the International Passivhaus Conference, the UK Passivhaus Conference, the Retrofit Academy and the Passivhaus Trust’s Retrofit Masterclass series (2022).

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