NEW FUNDING AVAILABLE: Apply Now for our Fast-Track Retrofit Coordinator Programme
Update 22/06: We’ve had a phenomenal response to our campaign and the application window is now closed. The Retrofit Academy CIC has been awarded additional funding under the Green Home Grant (GHG) Skills Training Competition to train an additional 138 Retrofit Coordinators by 30th September 2021. The competition aims to support government schemes such as […]
GHG Skills Training Competition: Level 2 Award in Understanding Domestic Retrofit
PLEASE NOTE: THE APPLICATION WINDOW IS NOW CLOSED. The Retrofit Academy CIC has been awarded funding under the Green Home Grant (GHG) Skills Training Competition to train 1,000 new and existing energy efficiency installers in understanding domestic retrofit. The competition aims to support the Green Home Grant Voucher Scheme and to support job creation. Funding […]
GHG Skills Training Competition: Retrofit Coordinator Programme
The Retrofit Academy has been awarded funding under the Green Home Grant (GHG) Skills Training Competition to train 120 new Retrofit Coordinators. The competition aims to to support the capacity building required to deliver PAS 2035 projects through the GHG and to support job creation. The Retrofit Academy is working with the West Midlands Combined […]
Opportunities for Retrofit Coordinator under the Green Homes Grant
Friday 25th September 2020 Context and Purpose Chief Executive of The Retrofit Academy, David Pierpoint talks about opportunities for Retrofit Coordinators under the Green Homes Grant scheme.
PAS into Practice Retrofit Coordinator Support Programme
We are delighted to have received funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to support Retrofit Coordinators into practice. This allows us to provide a support programme bespoke to the needs of individual Retrofit Coordinators. The objective of the programme is to have 75 Retrofit Coordinators qualified, accredited, and mentored into […]
Dr Peter Rickaby Scholarship
We are delighted to announce that The Retrofit Academy CIC is offering four full-scholarships on the Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management course. The Scholarships are in the name of Dr Peter Rickaby, who has been a longstanding supporter of The Retrofit Academy CIC. Dr Rickaby was also the Technical Author of […]
PAS 2035
What is it and what does it mean for you? In May 2019, the British Standards Institute (BSI) published a document called BSI Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 2035. You will not have heard about this on the national news. However, if you work in the energy efficiency sector, it will have a huge impact upon […]
What is the Future of ECO?
That’s the question Andrej Miller tried to answer at yesterday’s PEPA conference. Andrej is BEIS’s Head of the ECO – so if anybody should have a clear steer on this, it’s him! His message was loud and clear. It is the government’s intention to support deep retrofit. Achieving the net zero carbon target can’t be achieved without […]
What does Whole House Retrofit mean to me?
In the 21st Century, one of the key considerations for any homeowner is the energy efficiency of the property. With fuel prices continuing to rise, as well as an environmental imperative to both reduce energy consumption and also to adopt more sustainable energy sourcing, it’s clear that there is a need to “future-proof” homes to […]
Retrofit Jargon Buster – Understand Retrofit with Ease
Whether you’re new to retrofit or knee-deep in specifications, navigating the terminology can be overwhelming – that’s why we’ve created this retrofit jargon buster to make sense of the language shaping sustainable homes. A-value Water absorption coefficient of a material in kg/m2s0.5. Absolute Humidity is the measure of water vapor (moisture) in the air, regardless […]