MEASURE UP 2026: Delivering the promise
About this Event
Buildings are full of promises. Measure Up is about finding out whether they’re being kept.
Lower energy bills. Warmer homes. Better ventilation. Successful retrofit. Net zero. Healthy indoor environments.
We design, specify, invest and build with these outcomes in mind. But once the drawings, models and assessments are finished, how do we know the building is actually delivering them?
Measure Up 2026: Delivering the Promise is for people who care about how buildings perform in the real world.
Whether you're responsible for homes, designing buildings, delivering retrofit, specifying improvements, assessing performance or trying to make better decisions with building data, Measure Up brings together people facing the same fundamental challenge:
How do we move from assuming performance to knowing it?
A conference grounded in the real world
Building performance isn't an abstract technical issue.
- It's the resident wondering why their supposedly efficient home is still expensive to heat.
- It's the housing provider deciding where limited retrofit budgets will have the greatest impact.
- It's the designer wanting to know whether carefully considered details survived construction.
- It's the retrofit professional trying to understand what a building really needs before recommending an intervention.
- And it's the organisation being asked to demonstrate that investment has actually delivered the promised outcome.
At Measure Up, we'll explore how measurement, evidence and feedback can help answer those questions.
What will you take away?
Expect practical conversations about the things that matter when you're working with buildings every day:
- What can we actually measure, and what can it tell us?
- Where is the gap between predicted and real performance?
- How can better evidence improve retrofit decisions?
- How do we know whether an intervention has actually worked?
- What does good building performance look like for the people occupying the building?
- How can measurement help us manage risk, demonstrate quality and spend money more effectively?
- How are changes to policy, standards and industry practice making measured performance increasingly important?
You'll hear from people working across building performance, housing, retrofit, design, research and policy - with evidence, experiences and lessons that can be applied beyond the conference room.
Less assumption, more evidence.
The built environment has become very good at predicting how buildings should perform. It has also got increasingly profficient at understanding how they actually perform.
But what does that mean for the real world?
It means closing the loop between design, construction, occupation and improvement. It means finding problems earlier. Learning what works. Challenging assumptions when the evidence tells us something different. And ultimately creating buildings that deliver better outcomes for the people who live and work in them.
That's what Delivering the Promise is about.
Who should attend?
Measure Up is for anyone whose decisions affect the performance of buildings, including people working in:
Housing and asset management • Retrofit • Architecture and design • Building services • Energy assessment • Sustainability and net zero • Building surveying • Construction • Building control • Research and academia • Local and central government • Building performance testing and measurement
You don't need to be a measurement specialist.
You just need to care whether buildings work as well in reality as we say they do.
Join the conversation
Come to the University of Nottingham on 17 September 2026 for a day of ideas, evidence, practical learning and conversations with people who share an interest in making buildings perform better.
You'll leave with new perspectives, new connections and, most importantly, ideas you can take back into your own projects and buildings.
6 hours CPD • Expert speakers • Practical insight • Exhibition • Networking
Agenda and format
The day will centre around an authoritative and informative conference agenda, which will be further supported by a carefully curated exhibition designed to encourage the wider conversation to keep flowing both on the day and in the weeks after.
The agenda can be seen below.
Agenda
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Welcome, housekeeping
Host: Tanya Jane
Info: Welcome! Take a seat as we set the scene for the agenda and take you through the format of the day
🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
The evolution of measured performance in policy and where we go next
Host: Alex Moseley
🕑: 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
The journey of airtightness and the University of Nottingham
Host: Christopher Wood
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Delivering on the promise
Host: Richard Jack
🕑: 11:55 AM - 12:10 PM
The importance of U-values and how to use them effectively
Host: Prof. Richard Fitton
🕑: 12:25 PM - 12:40 PM
Measuring the thermal performance of buildings: a pivotal moment
Host: Prof. David Allinson
🕑: 12:25 PM - 12:40 PM
Setting the Standard, closing the loop: BS40101 update
Host: Kerry Mashford, OBE
🕑: 01:55 PM - 02:10 PM
The Welsh Heritage Decarbonisation Pilot - Deploying Heat3D
Host: Seb Laan Lomas
🕑: 02:10 PM - 02:25 PM
The role of measurement as a registered new build housing provider in the real
Host: James Parker
🕑: 02:40 PM - 02:55 PM
title coming soon
Host: Josh Cooper
🕑: 02:55 PM - 03:10 PM
25 years on from the introduction of airtightness testing
Host: Stuart Oakes
🕑: 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM
Wrap-up, thanks, CLOSE
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 45.00
