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The independent charity has created a series of guidelines entitled Building Opportunities for Business: Low carbon Domestic Retrofit, which aims to give the best advice to trade and professions, including architects and surveyors.
Ian Short, chief executive at the Institute for Sustainability, said: “Retrofitting buildings is one of the biggest jobs and growth opportunities in the UK. We have no choice but to make refurbishing our domestic housing stock a priority or we will not meet legal obligations to reduce CO2 emissions. To make such large-scale changes, we need equally significant transformation in the industry.”
Initially created to support a change in the built environment industry, the guide was launched to London small and medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with the commercial potential of low-carbon building and retrofit. More than 600 businesses have since joined up to its FLASH programme, which is partly funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Peter Rickaby, managing editor of the guides and director of Rickaby Thompson Associates, said: “These guides will underpin the government’s forthcoming Green Deal, which is designed to promote retrofit, transform the building industry and facilitate our transition to a low-carbon economy.’
The institute’s guide can be accessed via www.instituteforsustainability.org.uk/retrofitguides
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