Retrofit

Morgan Sindall Property Services has been appointed by Longhurst Group to help deliver a home retrofit project. The project will involve upgrading 581 homes over the next two years, with […]

The Cost of Ignoring Poor Housing, published by the Building Research Establishment (BRE), has revealed that remedial work to England’s poorest housing could provide £135.5bn in societal benefits over the […]

Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change & Net Zero, Ed Miliband, attended the launch of Retrofit West, a project aiming to support domestic retrofit across the West of England. […]

Gary Neville used InstallerShow23 to call upon the government to provide more support to both homeowners and businesses to ensure that low-carbon measures are actually affordable to install In a […]

New research published this week has revealed the significant impact the Warm Homes Fund (WHF) project had, saving households a total of over £10 million – that’s £922 per household. […]

The latest report from Orbit Group – 2500 Days – Navigating the path to net zero carbon homes with our customers – reveals the challenge of driving the behavioural changes […]

Rachael Owens and Sara Edmonds have been appointed as Co-Directors for the National Retrofit Hub, who take over from Russell Smith, interim Director, in mid-July. Both are experienced architects who […]

A report published by UNISON says that government help to drive energy efficiency is inadequate, putting greener homes beyond the reach of all but the wealthy. Unless substantial progress is […]

Nationwide Building Society has launched its Home Energy Efficiency Tool. It will provide homeowners with information about the current energy use in their home, offer suggestions on how they could […]

Salix Finance has appointed PwC, which is working with Turner & Townsend and Arup to deliver the next waves of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and Home Upgrade Grant, managing the schemes […]

A new organisation focussed on housing retrofit has been launched. The National Home Decarbonisation Group (NHDG) has been created to collectively deliver energy-efficiency measures and low carbon technologies at scale […]

Buro Happold has secured funding from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) to assess the feasibility of a novel approach to decarbonising terraced streets through innovative approaches to community heat […]