RE[think] : Is Your Building Ready for the Future?

Thursday, November 12, 2026

RE[think] : Is your building ready for the future?

Much of Northern Ireland’s building stock was designed for a climate and energy system that are rapidly changing. This CleanTech NI panel explores how we can bring our buildings up to speed, and turn them into part of the solution.

The conversation follows three steps: first, understanding how a building actually performs using monitoring and data rather than guesswork; second, retrofitting for the heat, cold, damp and energy costs of the decades ahead; and finally, exploring how buildings can generate, store and trade energy, helping the retrofit pay its way.

Hear from Northern Ireland innovators and academics developing these solutions here at home.

RE[think] : Is Your Building Ready for the Future?

Thursday, November 12, 2026

9:30 - 11:00AM | Europa Hotel Penthouse Suite

Carol Lemmens - Arup

Carol is Arup’s Global Advisory Services Portfolio leader and interim Europe Property Business leader.

He was instrumental in developing Arup’s position paper to define the circular economy in the context of the built environment and developing Arup’s work as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) knowledge partner for the built environment. He continues to work to raise the awareness of the circular economy approach from general first principles to practice by identifying the many challenges, enablers and opportunities available to Arup and others in making the circular economy a reality. Carol regularly contributes to Circular Economy and thought pieces, presentations and interviews globally. Most notably, Carol was invited to give a key note address to the United Nations General Assembly at their Circular Economy event, in October 2018.

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