On average, a female-founded business receives £644,000 in total funding, compared to a staggering £4.34 million for a solely male-owned organisation. There are plenty of excellent startups and ideas formed by women in the built environment, but ideas without funding don’t go far. The data also tells us that female-lead start ups have a greater

Find out about the findings emerging from the Electrification of Heat Project which is helping to demonstrate the feasibility of a large-scale roll-out of heat pumps in Great Britain and to identify future innovation requirements to accelerate heat pump uptake.  Speaker: Daniel Logue, Energy Systems Catapult

Futurebuild is an event which bri Futurebuild is an event which brings together the greatest innovators and innovations. This session will focus on the innovation programmes that are focused on the built environment which will be vital to deliver technology we need to decarbonise by 2050, including an update on the Green Home Finance Accelerator.

The Edinburgh Home Demonstrator programme, backed by Scottish Government, is a unique partnership of research and development experts working together with industry to show how affordable net zero carbon housing can be created at scale across the six local authorities within the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Deal region. The project is developing a

This session will see shortlisted innovative start-ups and SME’s from the Innovation Pavilion battle it out in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitch, to become winner of the new Big Ideas Pitch 2023. Chair: Dr Oliver Jones, Research Director, Ryder Architecture Pitchers:Andy Coward, Founder, Net Zero Projects LimitedMinimass Michael Cox, Business Development Manager, Oaktree PowerSam Draper,

This session will see product and innovation presentations from Innovation Partners, who you can also visit on the Innovation Trail. 13.45-14.00 Smart rainwater management Rainwater sits at the nexus of flood and drought. Smart rainwater management means you can save water and solve your surface water flooding issues with one affordable, decentralised and scalable solution.

This session will see product and innovation presentations from Innovation Partners, who you can also visit on the Innovation Trail. 15.45-16.00 Designing low carbon buildings of the future – how flowing screeds can help to meet the Future Homes Standard 2025 The Future Homes Standard 2025 states new builds must reduce carbon emissions by 75%,

This session will see product and innovation presentations from Innovation Partners, who you can also visit on the Innovation Trail. 14.45-15.00 Innovative windpost helps meet stringent thermal specifications The revolutionary Ancon Thermal Windpost (TWP2) is designed to span vertically between floors, to provide additional lateral support for panels of masonry. It has been specially designed

Retrofitting solid walled homes; what research tells us about the importance of a whole house approach, and how real performance compares to EPCs Chair: Roger Littlewood, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Panel: Professor David Glew, Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute (LSI),  Leeds Beckett University

Learn early findings from the UK’s largest heat pump innovation programme, directly from the project teams working on the innovations.    Chair: Sally Fenton, Co-head of the Built Innovation team – Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy Directorate (SICE), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Speakers: Richard Jack, Build Test Solutions Paul Harmer,

Find out about current government policy on heat pumps, learn about the UK’s largest heat pump innovation programme and about future heat pump innovation.    Chair: Sally Fenton, Co-head of the Built Innovation team – Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy Directorate (SICE), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Heat Pump Policy Overview

This session will see product and innovation presentations from Innovation Partners, who you can also visit on the Innovation Trail. 15.15-15.30 Digitising production to make it easier to integrate re-use MCB Atelier is a Brussels-based company active in wood processing it is also a local ecosystem that allows to push and promote – through a

This session will see product and innovation presentations from our Net Zero Pioneers – those leading the way at scale on the journey to net zero. Chair: Andrew Cameron Smith, Content & Editorial Director, Unlock Net Zero 13.30-13.50 The challenges of decarbonising heat 17% of the UK’s emissions come from providing heating and hot water

Online newspaper for schools The Day, together with the LEGO Group, are giving students the chance to have a say on sustainability issues and express their hopes for the future through a weekly free sustainability resource, called Build the Change Tuesday. Students debate and discuss sustainability issues in the news, then design their own innovative

This session will see shortlisted innovative start-ups and SME’s from the Innovation Pavilion battle it out in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitch, to become winner of the new Big Ideas Pitch 2023. Chair: Dr Oliver Jones, Research Director, Ryder Architecture Pitchers: Phanos Hadjikyriakou, Co-Founder & CEO, 2050 Materials Agnes Czako, Co-Founder and CEO, Airex Alasdair

This session will provide a brief overview of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) which is part of the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. The Energy Entrepreneurs Fund is a competitive funding scheme to support the development and demonstration of state-of-the-art technologies, products and processes in the areas of energy efficiency, power generation, heat and electricity storage,

The session will introduce the Flexibility Innovation Programme which is part of the £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. The ability to shift energy in time or location to balance supply and demand is essential for decarbonising power, buildings and transport and could bring down yearly system costs by up to £10 billion by 2050.