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Exciting conference near London on all things retrofit

Another exciting conference will be taking place this coming week - INSITE11 – and its a good chance to meet Sefaira team Sefaira who will be exhibiting there! This two day conference, which will be held October 4-5, 2011 at BRE Watford just outside of London, UK combines an exhibition of 50+ refurbishment innovations with a lively conference programme that will examine building and community revitalizations. Participants will leave the conference:

• Better informed about new market developments, legislation and the business opportunities around retrofit.
• With new technical knowledge on what works and what doesn’t.
• Informed about available funding streams and new partnerships opportunities.
• Having been involved with a host of special features running throughout the event.

Check out this year’s list of conference speakers:

• Interiors, Vanessa Brady, Interior Design Services
• Green deal or no deal?, Liz Laine
• Retrofit for the future, Paul Ruyssevelt, TSB
• Lesson from the real world: delivering advanced domestic refurbishment, John O'Brien, BRE
• Overview of E2B programme: On-going Projects and Future Agenda, Jeremy Watson, Global Research Director, ARUP
• The National Refurbishment Centre, Chris Ward Brown Chairman, NRC
• BRE Trust project Well-being in refurbishment, Katie Livesey, BRE
• Plan A for NHS, IHEEM, Trevor Payne, UCHL
• Centre for userbased design, Michael Clarke, Willmott Dixon
• Procure21+, Ray Stephenson
• Real cost of poor housing, Mike Roys, BRE
• Richard Foggie, HoIP
• Peter Matthew, Deputy Director of the Climate Change & Sustainable Buildings, DCLG
• Retrofitting at the urban scale, Professor Michael Kelly, University of Cambridge
• Thomas E Low, DPZ, Charlotte Architects and Town Planners
• Work shift: how the way that we work is changing, Dr Nicola Millard, Customer Experience Futurologist, BT
• Ben Bolger, Senior Design Director, The Princes Foundation
• The Excellence Framework, Paul Ajiboye, BRE

Registration is very affordable – only £35 on the day – and there are many options for getting to and from the conference from the city. We hope to see you there!