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The £3m project will look at ways to retrofit our existing housing stock
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In order to meet the carbon reduction targets by 2050, refurbishment and retrofit work will have to be carried out on 12,500 homes a week, every week for the next 40 years. This project will also identify the key skills required in the workforce and optimise the materials distribution networks to bring maximum efficiency to the process.
The ETI, a public-private partnership that is tasked with developing the technologies to help the UK meet its 2050 carbon reduction targets on a mass-scale, is coordinating the two-year, £3m project to identify ways in which the refurbishment and retrofitting of residential properties can be accelerated by employing mass production techniques used in industry.
Dr David Clarke, the ETI’s CEO, said: “Persuading consumers to take-up refurbishment and technology retrofit opportunities requires us to address the challenge of creating supply-chains and delivery routes which consumers trust and which they consider affordable. With the majority of today’s 26 million dwellings expected to still be in use by 2050, the outputs from this ambitious project are absolutely critical to understanding how we can help meet the CO 2 reduction targets as set out in the Climate Change Act.”
The Energy Zone Consortium will:
- identify the size of the different market groups living in similar housing property types;
- develop and deliver a route map for different technology innovations needed to achieve affordable, acceptable and effective housing refurbishment to improve thermal & energy efficiency;
- analyse and recommend the design of lean supply chains for delivering mass-market whole house refurbishment solutions;
- produce a report on the value stream for home holders, identifying how to change behaviour for different demographic and housing market segments;
- provide recommendations for changes to the legislative environment and identify the effectiveness of different policy supported market incentives.
For further information visit www.energytechnologies.co.uk .
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