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Sara Edmonds is an architect and activist, Co-Director of the National Retrofit Hub whose mission is to enable the local delivery of housing retrofit at scale and Head of Citizen Engagement at Built Environment – Smarter Transformation. She is director of Studio seARCH, a consultancy that advocates for systemic change around low carbon domestic retrofit and co-founded Home Energy Action Lab (HEAL), a framework test bed for community based domestic retrofit services. 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 is a fundamental part of this work.