SHAP's news round-up for the sustainable housing sector - May 2021

Ellie Horwitch-Smith has been involved with SHAP since our first consultancy project in 2005 and joined the SHAP Board about four years ago. This Autumn, Ellie steps up…

A new task force will bring together some of the best minds in energy, education and infrastructure to ensure the city-region’s homes and buildings are fit for a zero-carbon future…

West Leeds: Green energy project notches top award

Firms wanted to supply or fit solar panels and air and ground source heat pumps…

Nationwide Building Society has launched a cashback offer for those purchasing a property with a high-energy efficiency rating…

The report Home and Dry: the need for decent homes in later life details the problem of poor quality housing in England and its impact on society. Despite the scale of the problem, the national framework for tackling the problem of poor-quality housing has fallen into disrepair.

With funding cut, interventions withdrawn, advice and guidance hard to find, and enforcement of statutory duties faltering…

The UK’s target to hit net-zero emissions by 2050 depends on the quality of our houses. Unless we succeed in their “near complete decarbonisation” the UK will not meet its emission reduction targets, the Committee on Climate Change warned last year. But there is a complication…

In their new report Building Routes to Scale, Social Finance introduce a framework to help people target, understand and plan for change that sticks.

Could this approach be applied to retrofit at-scale…?

The Environment Journal (EJ) Podcasts feature leading figures from the worlds of sustainability, the environment and air quality management…

Nigel Wilson, the Chief Executive Officer of Gentoo Group talks about improving resident engagement, successful retrofit projects and funding…

“Links between poor housing and health are well known in the sector; by investing in our housing stock…“

MCS CEO, Ian Rippin, speculates on the government’s upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy (expected end of May 2021), which provides more than enough food…

New @beisgovuk report: International review of domestic retrofit supply chains. “Key selling points for any energy retrofit work are…