Helene Gosden

Helene Gosden

Associate Director

  • Retrofit at Scale Leader

Helene is an Associate Director, a chartered engineer and advocate for the re-use of existing buildings and assets. She initiated Arup's UK Retrofit at Scale Taskforce to tackle the system challenge of retrofitting UK housing at scale to meet net zero commitments, while aiming to deliver community benefits through a place-based approach.

Helene is part of Arup's senior leadership team supporting DESNZ and Salix Finance as Delivery Partner for the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2 and Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) 2, a collaboration with PwC and Turner and Townsend. Delivering all technical assessment workstreams within this partnership, Helene and her team of nearly 40 colleagues are actively supporting Local Authorities to retrofit over 100,000 social rented properties throughout England.

Helene has a Masters in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment and has delivered many lectures on both retrofit at scale and adaptive re-use of existing structures, including to the Harvard Graduate School of Design.