Housing association Aster has appointed the property services arm of Wates, WPS, to deliver a £20m scheme to decarbonise around 750 of its homes in the south of England and London.

Poorly designed retrofit schemes, a skills crisis and costly assurance failures “have significantly set back” efforts to decarbonise homes, MPs have said in a new report.

Housing association Orbit has chosen Wates to retrofit 410 of its homes over two years.

Matthias Gropp explains the role that advanced monitoring techniques, AI and IoT can play in retrofitting projects of historic assets.

Historic England has published new advice on adapting historic buildings for energy efficiency and climate change.

The Construction Leadership Council has published a report setting out a framework for defining competence in the UK domestic retrofit sector.

A not-for-profit construction framework provider has launched a new scheme to retrofit and decarbonise Britain’s social housing stock and public sector buildings.

Kier, Vinci and Morgan Sindall are among the 56 companies appointed by Pagabo to a £1.6bn decarbonisation solutions framework.

CIOB is appealing to metro mayor candidates in May’s elections to prioritise construction career opportunities and retrofitting of building stock.

The City of London Corporation and Purcell have published an open-access toolkit to help heritage building owners make necessary adaptations to reduce carbon emissions and build climate resilience.

M&S has won a High Court appeal against the government’s decision to refuse the retailer to demolish its flagship store in London’s Marble Arch.

A selection of readers’ comments about news and issues in the industry from across the CIOB community.

Problems with current Scottish government funding schemes are obstructing large-scale energy retrofit projects for social housing, a new report by the CIOB shows.

The Chartered Institute of Building is urging government to introduce a loan scheme to help with the costs of retrofitting homes in the UK.

A round-up of reactions from the built environment to the Secretary of State to block the rebuilding of M&S’s iconic building in London’s Marble Arch.

Retrofitting and refurbishing is a way to reduce construction’s energy consumption, but can it work on large projects?