The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has renewed its call to government to make a national retrofit plan a key part of its industrial strategy, following the launch of the Climate Change Committee’s sixth ‘carbon budget’.
The carbon budget warned that buildings are a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
The CIOB said: “Upgrading the UK’s existing building stock through retrofitting is vital to achieving the net zero target and will deliver a range of wider benefits including improved comfort and health for end users, as well as reducing the financial burdens of poor housing on the NHS. The budget rightly recognises this and sets out a £55bn household energy efficiency programme with 15 million households to receive main insulation measures and a further eight million to benefit from draught-proofing.
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