Opening keynote speech - Lord Callanan, BEIS
Lord Callanan, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will offer the opening keynote address to FOOTPRINT+ Conference at 10am on Tuesday. Lord Callanan will focus on:

• The challenge of decarbonising homes and buildings
• Planned investment, regulation and priorities
• Progress so far
• Wider issues like green finance, innovation, and the supply chain 

Thursday keynote speech - Professor Greg Clark

Zero Carbon Cities: The Urban Transition
As concentrated nodes of population, cities are ideally placed to lead the process of decarbonisation. How does the urban transformation compliment the energy transformation? 

Retrofit and the Circular Economy – Low Carbon Steel: Reusing existing steel 

Steel has often been demonised as one of the most carbon intensive building materials but it is inherently recyclable and without steel many structures would be unthinkable. In this session we discover what comes next for steel in construction, from programs to use production overruns, opportunities and limitations on reclamation and remanufacture, to companies moving entire buildings from A to B. 

Efficient Buildings – Modern methods of construction and offsite fabrication 

The percentage of dwellings using Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), including full-blown factory-made volumetric units, prefabricated components or panellised systems, has not grown significantly in the UK for a generation. Given its manifest advantages in speed, efficiency, build quality and energy performance, why is MMC not gaining ground in response to the acute housing shortage? Shortages of accurate and easily accessible data, a high overhead barrier for manufacturers and ingrained social attitudes that hark back to the prefabs of the 1950s all play their part. The expert panel proposes a way forward. 

Zero Carbon Energy – Brent Cross Town 

Brent Cross Town is a £7bn regeneration project developed in partnership between Argent Related and Barnet Council. The implementation of this ambitious masterplan will deliver the first homes in 2024 and sets out to: 

• Make a new town in North London where people can flourish with good homes, schools and places to work, meeting the evolving needs of the community
• Provide a new home for sport in London 
• Invest in the infrastructure to become a Net Zero carbon neighbourhood by 2030 

Financing the Carbon Revolution – Evolved funding models for the housing market 

Partners in different housing developments explain how the re-evaluation of funding models and partnerships with public and private funders are enabling low and zero carbon homes to be brought to the marketplace today. Hear from Thakeham Homes, Barclays Real Estate, and Stonewater Housing Association how changing the way we value housing projects is achieving real reductions in carbon emissions. 

Unlock Net Zero – Funding Net-Zero retrofits 

This workshop will look at how to secure better value for money through streamlining retrofit project financing and delivery. We will explore how the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator is helping housing providers across England gain access to funding for retrofit work. We look at the investment opportunities for meeting wider retrofit objectives, in line with PAS2035, and the skills that will be required to make this transition a reality.

For more information on the conference programme or how to book your ticket, visit www.footprintplus.com.