HPH392: What's the difference between good and bad retrofit? – with Marion Baeli

About this episode

Marion Baeli discusses the differences between good and bad retrofitting practices based on her experiences and lessons learned.

Marion Baeli, author of "Residential Retrofit," offers hands-on experience of designing and retrofitting high performance homes. As well as drawing on her personal retrofit she shares the lessons learnt from revisiting properties that took part in the Retrofit for the Future competition over a decade ago. Check out the show notes for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Ben Adam-Smith

Guest: Marion Baeli

Topics covered

• retrofit
• high performance homes
• design
• sustainability
• lessons learned

Keywords

• retrofit
• high performance homes
• Marion Baeli
• sustainability
• design

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Residential Retrofit

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