Quality Skills For Large-Scale Retrofit Key to New Government’s Net Zero Success

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An industry expert is urging the new government to ensure it includes developing and prioritising retrofit training and knowledge as part of its focus on skills following the King’s Speech a few weeks ago. The call follows the King announcing several new measures including the Skills Bill designed to bring together local and national government, […]

The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: 10 things you need to know

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Of the 26 million or so homes that need retrofitting in the UK, 4.1 million are social housing properties, and of those, 1.6 million perform poorly at below an EPC C rating. The result of this is cold, damp, and expensive to run homes for many families already living on low incomes. It also means […]

Centre of Excellence Summit: Retrofit in Social Housing

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Retrofit has rocketed up the agenda of many social landlords and local authorities over the past 12 months. With the EPC Band C by 2030 target looming large, and Net Zero on the horizon, decarbonising the existing stock has long been the ultimate elephant in the room.  The post-COVID stimulus package and new fuel poverty […]

Retrofit for Social Housing Online Summit

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29th May 2020 The Retrofit for Social Housing Summit was delivered by The Retrofit Academy Centre of Excellence in partnership with the Direct Works Forum. More than 100 social landlords attended the event, hearing from five guest speakers and posing their own questions to our panel. Context Delegates were asked to complete an online survey […]

Labour’s “Warm Homes for all”: public interest policy or electoral spin?

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With the battle for Downing Street well underway, political parties from all areas of the spectrum have begun the tradition of rolling out promises to appeal to the public. In what is arguably one of the most controversial and contentious general elections in living memory, mainstream party leaders are going to have to work extra […]