Sara Edmonds is an architect and activist, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub, whose mission is to enable the local delivery of retrofit at scale.
Sara co-founded Home Energy Action Lab (HEAL) an advocacy organisation for community based domestic retrofit. She sits on the Warm Homes Plan expert advisory panel.
Previously she spent 3 years as Head of Citizen Engagement at Built Environment - Smarter Transformation in the retrofit team, and 3 years as a coordinator at the Architects Climate Action Network, an organisation formed to empower individuals within architecture and related built environment professions taking action to address the twin crises of climate and ecological breakdown; and spent a year as social housing associate at the Passivhaus Trust. For over a decade she was director of Studio seARCH, a consultancy that advocated for systemic change around low carbon domestic retrofit.
Working in the face of a climate emergency, the focus of Sara’s work is to drive essential change in the built environment and wider communities through connecting bottom-up, grassroots projects and top-down strategies and initiatives. Collaboration and codesign is a fundamental part of this work.
