Webinar Series 2025: Transforming homes at scale
With an estimated 29 million UK homes requiring upgrades by 2050 – at an investment of approximately £250bn – scalable solutions are essential to meeting national Net Zero goals. This webinar explores the opportunities and challenges involved in scaling up housing transformation using architectural design, biobased materials and low-carbon technologies. The regulatory, social and systemic barriers are examined that limit how quickly and effectively the transformation of our housing stock could take place.
Chair: Dr Robert Grover, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Bath
Speakers:
- Dr Louise King, Research Associate, University of Bath
- Cllr. Andrea Lewis, Joint Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Service Transformation, City & County of Swansea
- Prof Michael Lewis, Professor of Operations and Supply Management, University of Bath School of Management
- Dr Darshil Shah, Associate Professor in Materials Science and Design, University of Cambridge
- Dr Caroline Weeks, Principal Consultant, BRE
Edited by Veronica Albarran Carrillo
Transforming Homes is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which is part of UK Research and Innovation. Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition ecosystem, supports the project.