Recruitment giant Reed in Partnership has today (18 July) launched a new venture, Reed Environment to address the UK’s net zero skills shortage. Reed Environment’s ambition is to create one of the largest networks of green skills training providers in ...

Longhurst Group has appointed Morgan Sindall Property Services to help deliver a new project to improve the energy efficiency of 581 homes over the next two years, following grant funding from the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). The scheme will ...

Building and property maintenance company, Wates, has become one of the first members of the newly formed National Homes Decarbonisation Group (NHDG) in a move that will help accelerate the social housing retrofit challenge. The Group will work together to ...

International consultancy and construction company, Mace, is calling on the UK construction industry and government to ramp up efforts to retrofit non-domestic buildings through a series of recommendations. The policy recommendation, included in its report ‘Transform & Renew – Making ...

The latest green buildings may be designed for sustainability, but the embodied carbon produced in their construction shouldn’t be overlooked. Shane Betts, Head of Corporate Business, Integral makes the case for retrofitting existing buildings instead When we think about sustainable ...

Novus Property Solutions has landed a place on a newly-launched framework by Greener Futures Partnership and Pretium Frameworks to provide a series of decarbonisation-focused retrofit works to a significant number of properties across England and Wales. Works by Novus will ...

  This is the warning from a new report The Role of Retrofitting our Non-Domestic Buildings in the Race to Net Zero, by Ridge and Partners LLP, a multi-discipline property and construction consultancy. The report shows that fewer than one in ...

VINCI Facilities has won a three-year contract, valued at £9 million, with Southern Housing to retrofit homes across London, Kent and Sussex. Taking a fabric first, whole house approach, these works will improve the housing association’s homes to minimum EPC ...

Amey is working alongside the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and SMEs to retrofit service family accommodation with a series of net zero solutions. Planning has recently been approved for nine military homes in Catterick to receive fabric improvements. These include ...

Having delivered retrofit improvements to nearly 900 social housing properties across the country in 2022, Wates has been honoured with three leading zero carbon industry awards. The first award, Most Innovative Retrofit/Refurbishment Scheme at the Housing Digital Innovation Awards 2023, ...