From 98% Behind to Leading the Race to the Top: How The Retrofit Academy Is Helping Close the Gap
The UK has lost a decade of progress on home energy efficiency. But we’re not here to dwell on the past – we’re here to help fix it. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Committee’s latest report lays it out clearly: we’re now operating at just 2% of the level of energy efficiency […]
Maximising the Warm Homes Grant: A Strategic Guide for Local Authorities and Social Housing Providers
The UK government’s Warm Homes Grant & Plan is a transformative investment aimed at tackling fuel poverty, reducing carbon emissions and accelerating progress toward net zero. With £3.4 billion committed from 2025 to 2028, this funding is a powerful opportunity for local authorities and social housing providers to make meaningful, measurable change in their communities. […]
The Retrofit Academy to play key role in Mayor’s new Zero Carbon Accelerator
The Retrofit Academy is proud to support the delivery of the Mayor of London’s programme, the new Zero Carbon Accelerator, whose aim is to transform organisations’ ability to decarbonise and meet London’s net zero target by 2030. The Retrofit Academy will be working closely with the Mayor of London, Mott MacDonald, Energy Saving Trust and […]
Quality Skills For Large-Scale Retrofit Key to New Government’s Net Zero Success
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
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 […]
Contracting for PAS 2035 Compliant Retrofit – A Guide for Local Authorities
The Retrofit Academy CIC is delighted to be working with the Local Energy North West Hub on producing a new guide for local authorities, centred on best practice for contracting PAS 2035 compliant retrofit.
Centre of Excellence Summit: Retrofit in Social Housing
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
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?
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 […]
