12 November 2026 | London
Why attend
Retrofit is no longer a niche specialism or a future ambition, it is the mainstream delivery challenge facing the UK construction and engineering sector right now.
RAAC concrete, cladding remediation, EPC reform, and the most significant public investment in home upgrades in British history have combined to make this the most consequential moment the retrofit sector has seen.
CN RE:NEW is where the people responsible for making it happen come together. A focused, high-quality day of insight, debate, and connection, built for senior leaders across housing, commercial real estate, public sector estates, and the supply chain delivering for all three.
Key reasons to attend:
Whether you are delivering large-scale housing upgrades, navigating public estate remediation, or advising commercial clients on their decarbonisation strategy, CN RE:NEW is where the sector's retrofit agenda is set.
Interrogate the policy in practice:
Regulation is moving fast. Understand what EPC reform, and the Warm Homes delivery framework mean in practice for your projects, your clients, and your pipeline — and hear directly from those shaping the implementation.
Learn from programmes already in delivery:
The sector's most experienced retrofit practitioners share what genuine large-scale delivery looks like — the procurement models, the supply chain realities, the technical challenges, and the lessons that don't make it into press releases.
Understand the public sector estates challenge:
From RAAC remediation in schools and hospitals to cladding programmes across social housing, public sector clients are navigating a retrofit and safety challenge of exceptional complexity. Hear how estates directors, NHS trusts, and local authorities are responding and what they need from the supply chain.
Connect with the people making decisions:
Clients commissioning programmes. Contractors building capability. Consultants advising on strategy. Housing providers, local authorities, and asset owners with live briefs. CN RE:NEW brings the right room together.
Get ahead of the pipeline:
The retrofit market is growing faster than the sector's capacity to serve it. Understand where the work is coming from, how procurement frameworks are evolving, and how to position your organisation to win it.
Venue
More than 150 years old, the Kia Oval, London is home to Surrey County Cricket Club and has witnessed some famous victories, including England’s Ashes win in 2005.
The cricket ground is a two-minute walk from Oval Tube station on the Northern line and a 10-minute walk from Vauxhall Tube station on the Victoria line.
The venue is fully accessible and more detail on this can be found here .
We have partnered with the accommodation agency PRIORITY to offer our attendees discounted accommodation at nearby hotels. Booking via the link below will allow you to access these discounts.
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Alternatively, please feel free to call PRIORITY direct on 0845 6123 611 or +44 1473 550 620 and quote Event Code: EMAP112
We regret that you are unable to book accommodation directly through emap, you must do so with PRIORITY.
Sustainability at the CN RE:NEW Retrofit
An event built around its own themes of reducing carbon emissions
Construction News is a member of isla and is committed in the journey to becoming more sustainable. isla is our Sustainability partner. Construction News will be closely evaluating all our events and considering how we can improve in the following areas - energy, transport, water usage, waste management, environment and support for the local economy.
isla is an action-driven network that is working towards accelerating the event industry to a sustainable future. Bringing together expertise from across the entire events sector to give its members confidence, knowledge, and resources needed to deliver sustainable events confidently and consistently.
More information about isla can be found here
The menu
You will notice that the menu for this event has been chosen with sustainability in mind. We have chosen to mandate a vegetarian menu for the event and all of the ingredients are sourced as locally to the venue as possible. Food waste will be donated to a local charity, in line with the venue's sustainability policy.
Suppliers and collateral
Construction News chooses its suppliers with a bias towards those partners who take sustainability seriously. We are eliminating all paper print-outs at the event, except when requested by delegates by registration survey in aid of accessibility. Tickets are electronic instead of printed, and the signage we use is provided by the wonderful Insite Graphics which holds ISO14001 certification . Event signage is all either recyclable, reusable , or is used to provide community power when disposed of – none will go to landfill. All the ink is water-based and much of our signage is moving to carboard-based alternatives , recyclable in generic paper waste collections. The exhibition stands at the event are all provided by Insite Graphics, too. Mandating one supplier enables efficiencies in transport and setup therefore minimising carbon impact. All of the exhibition stands are powered by LED (low power emitting) and are made of reusable alluminium frames.
Audio visual provider: Straycat Communications
Our audio visual partner is Straycat Communications . As a design agency, Straycat own very little kit themselves and are therefore able to use local suppliers to minimise carbon impact and cost; the result of this is less trucking than average, and an ability to be flexible to meet the demands of the event (rather than over-catering for the event). The majority of the lighting used at the event is LED, reducing electricity consumption by up to 80% compared to traditional tungsten lighting. We will insist at the event that no single use plastic is used gratuitously where this can be avoided (ie cable ties and superfluous packaging) and this will extend to our AV contract.
We need to work harder
This section of the website isn’t just dedicated to shouting about how great we are for doing what we should have been doing all along. We need to do better. We would love to hear from you on how you think we could improve. Please email any suggestions to the event manager for this event and take a few moments to complete the post-event survey which will be emailed to you after the event day.
The event manager
Harry Bower
Harry.Bower@emap.com
Construction News
