Sara Edmonds

Head of Citizen Engagement

Sara Edmonds is an architect and activist, Co-Director of the National Retrofit Hub and Head of Citizen Engagement at Built Environment - Smarter Transformation, whose mission is to accelerate the built environment’s transition to zero carbon emissions. 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.

She also co-hosts the Accelerate to Zero Podcast. She was a coordinator at the Architects Climate Action Network for three years, 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.

sedmonds@be-st.build