M&S High Court decision won’t tip the scales away from a retrofit-first future

By Simon Rawlinson2024-03-06T06:00:00

The low-carbon case for retrofit has become so strong that economic arguments for new-build may no longer secure support, suggests Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis.

I was recently asked to provide a keynote speech at a RICS debate: retrofit first or retrofit only? The organisers clearly set the “first versus only” topic to spark a fiery debate, but it did not quite work out like that – mainly because no one would explicitly take the retrofit only position. It’s just a bit too extreme.

But could we end up in that position by default? Many of our speakers highlighted the overwhelming climate case for retrofit, particularly with respect to resource depletion.

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