Retrofit Facilitation Service Toolkit
A step-by-step toolkit for Local Authorities to set up and run effective ‘one stop shop’ Retrofit Facilitation Services.
The Toolkit
The Local Area Retrofit Accelerator Getting Started Toolkit gives Local Authorities a clear, practical route to making the business case, then designing and delivering effective domestic retrofit schemes. It outlines the process of creating Retrofit Facilitation Services, helping you support homeowners through energy-efficiency upgrades and building a sustainable local retrofit market.
Use this guide to:
Empowering proactive homeowners to upgrade their properties is a vital step to achieving local and national net-zero goals. This easy-to-use microsite provides Local Authority officers with the clarity and confidence needed to drive meaningful, lasting change.
Home Retrofit
With time running out to keep global temperatures to 1.5 degrees, upgrading the nation’s homes is one of the biggest opportunities the UK has to reduce carbon emissions whilst tackling the cost-of-living crisis, energy security and levelling up.
Policy & Advocacy
UKGBC works with our members and with policymakers at all levels across the UK to advocate for a built environment that meets the challenges of the climate and ecological crises
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Adaptation for Climate Resilience: Non-Domestic Buildings
This guide builds upon stage three of the four-stage model presented in the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap: prepare and adapt. It explores practical adaptation measures that can be applied to non-domestic buildings now.
Innovation in Commercial Retrofit: A Live Project Demonstrator
This report details the practical way our Commercial Retrofit Innovation Map was applied within a live project environment, outlining a repeatable, step-by-step approach to the innovation review and selection process.
Whole Life Carbon Framework
This updated framework is a set of principles and actions to guide the minimisation of whole life carbon (WLC) and manage residual emissions across a building’s life cycle.
