The Green Homes Grant scheme failed because politicians failed to heed more than a decade of lessons about how to do retrofit well, writes Dr Peter Rickaby, and now there will be an even bigger hill to climb.  Recently, I made a list of the UK government’s domestic retrofit programmes since...

We are delighted to have received funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to train Retrofit Coordinators who will be working on Local Authority Delivery (LAD) and Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Schemes. More complicated projects like LAD and...

Retrofit has rocketed up the agenda of many social landlords and local authorities over the past 12 months. With the EPC Band C by 2030 target looming large, and Net Zero on the horizon, decarbonising the existing stock has long been the ultimate elephant in the room. The post-COVID stimulus...

The Retrofit Academy CIC has been awarded funding under the Green Home Grant (GHG) Skills Training Competition to train 1,000 new and existing energy efficiency installers in understanding domestic retrofit. The competition aims to support the Green Home Grant Voucher Scheme and to support job...

The Retrofit Academy has been awarded funding under the Green Home Grant (GHG) Skills Training Competition to train 120 new Retrofit Coordinators. The competition aims to to support the capacity building required to deliver PAS 2035 projects through the GHG and to support job creation. The Retrofit...

Wednesday 18th November 2020 Becoming TrustMark registered can open opportunities for a business, providing access to Green Homes Grant and the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) markets. With the Conservatives pledging £9.2 billion towards improving the energy...

Friday 25th September 2020 Context and Purpose Chief Executive of The Retrofit Academy, David Pierpoint talks about opportunities for Retrofit Coordinators under the Green Homes Grant scheme.

We are delighted to have received funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to attract chartered professionals into practice as Retrofit Coordinators. As we scale up the national retrofit project, it is crucial that the market is served by a broad range of...

We are delighted to have received funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to support Retrofit Coordinators into practice. This allows us to provide a support programme bespoke to the needs of individual Retrofit Coordinators. The objective of the programme...

1st July 2020 This event was staged to mark exactly one year to go until PAS 2035 becomes the mandatory standard for all retrofit projects delivered under the Energy Company Obligation. It considered how prepared we are as an industry and what has to be done to support the transition. Keynote...

29th May 2020 The Retrofit for Social Housing Summit was delivered by The Retrofit Academy Centre of Excellence in partnership with the Direct Works Forum. More than 100 social landlords attended the event, hearing from five guest speakers and posing their own questions to our panel. Context Delegates...

We are delighted to announce that The Retrofit Academy CIC is offering four full-scholarships on the Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management course. The Scholarships are in the name of Dr Peter Rickaby, who has been a longstanding supporter of The Retrofit Academy CIC....

Online Event, 20th April 2020 Retrofit Coordinator’s Questions Answered Context and Purpose Whilst the COVID-19 Pandemic overshadows everything, the energy efficiency sector remains in a transitionary period to adopting whole house retrofit. To date, over 350 built environment professionals...