The government’s £15bn Warm Homes Plan, launched in January, is aimed at upgrading the nation’s homes and cutting energy bills.
By 2030, it is expected to upgrade five million homes as part of a comprehensive retrofit programme, focusing on targeted interventions through insulation, solar panels and heat pumps.
For contractors and housing providers, the scale of the challenge ahead should not be underestimated. Delivering homes that are fit for the future will require more joined-up thinking across funding models, tenant engagement and supply chain management.
In this episode of the 21CC podcast, we hear from Thomas Fountain, director of asset knowledge and insight at Places for People, and Dan Germann, managing director at Durkan Regen.
They discuss what lies ahead and reveal the key ingredients for successful partnerships between contractors and housing providers. They also outline what successful delivery of the Warm Homes Plan could look like in five years’ time.
Listen now to hear what it will take to turn retrofit ambition into action across the housing sector.
Unfortunately, the short term benefits fall short of long term deficiencies. Yes, we can make dwellings warmer, do we make up allowances for doing so.
We have been involved in increasing insulation, more efficient heating, sealing gaps, greater thermal resistance to materials, consolidated detailing and building processes, sustainability, all for the greater good.
This has brought a plethora of new problems, quality of life, damp, mould, health problems, building breathing has gone, air changes are the right direction, but is not enough.
Will those making sweeping statements, actually recognise the consequences of their proposals and the knock-on effect that will eventually manifest into a worse situation that we now endure.
My 50 years in the architectural field teaches you things, not obviously apparent, until you lift the lid and get up to your elbows!