NWF and Banks to Deliver £1bn for Social Housing Retrofit
The NWF has announced financial guarantees that will see Barclays UK Corporate Bank and Lloyds Banking Group deliver £1 billion of funding to accelerate the retrofit of social housing in the UK. Barclays […]
Equans to Deliver Green Upgrades to Scunthorpe Social Housing
Equans will soon start work on a multi-million-pound project, on behalf of social housing provider Ongo Homes, which will drastically reduce carbon emissions and tackle fuel poverty for homes in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. […]
University of Strathclyde to Accelerate Net Zero Buildings for Cities
The University of Strathclyde is a partner in a new initiative to significantly reduce carbon emissions from high density housing in UK cities and towns. The transformational Centre for Net-Zero High Density Buildings […]
PFP Thrive: New Trade Skills Movement To Address Shortages
The UK’s leading social enterprise Places for People has launched a new training movement and delivery programme seeking to tackle the UK’s trade skills crisis and boost the future workforce of the housing […]
Home Hero: Private Homeowners to Benefit from Retrofit Initiative
Energy efficiency improvements are more easily accessible to households following the launch of a brand-new homeowner and landlord retrofit initiative, Home Hero, which is a consumer brand belonging to principal retrofit contractor Sustainable Building Services […]
5,000 Tonnes of Building Materials Recycled in Renovation Project
More than 5,000 tonnes of materials from a former school are being saved and reused as part of a scheme by Linc Cymru, a housing association and care provider based in South Wales. […]
£5.5m Retrofit Decarbonisation Project Starts in Nottinghamshire
Almost 80 properties are set to receive life changing retrofit decarbonisation measures in East Leake, Nottinghamshire in a £5.5 million project partnership between Sustainable Building Services (UK) Ltd (SBS) and Metropolitan Thames Valley […]
The Race to Retrofit: Can SHDF Wave 3 and PAS2035:2023 Provide the Way Forward?
The previous government set ambitious climate change targets that mean around 27 million homes will need to be retrofitted by 2050 to reach net zero, and we expect the current government to continue […]
Air Quality and Smart Buildings – IDTechEx Explores Environmental Gas Sensors
The gas sensor market is a diverse sector that incorporates a variety of core gas sensing technologies and emerging technologies for indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring. IDTechEx expects environmental applications of gas […]