{"id":137,"date":"2013-07-11T00:06:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/?p=137"},"modified":"2021-04-06T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:06:26","slug":"retrofit-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/2013\/07\/retrofit-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrofit for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/retrofit-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/retrofit-image-1024x180.jpg\" alt=\"retrofit-image\" width=\"1024\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/retrofit-image-1024x180.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/retrofit-image-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/retrofit-image.jpg 1406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>The <em>Retrofit for the Future<\/em> competition catalysed the retrofit of over 100 homes across the UK, with an ambition of achieving an 80% reduction in the in-use CO2 emissions of each property. Coordinated by the Technology Strategy Board , the <em>Retrofit for the Future<\/em> competition encouraged collaboration between housing providers, designers, contractors and researchers, and has helped to stimulate new business opportunities in the retrofit market.<br \/>\nThe Technology Strategy Board has now published data and analysis of monitoring data provided by <em>Retrofit for the Future<\/em> projects, available via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukgbc.org\/ukgbc-work\/retrofit-for-the-future-innovate-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GBC UK website here<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>They have provided a series of charts showing the performance of the properties, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukgbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Retrofit-Energy-Costs-Infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">energy costs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukgbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Retrofit-Carbon-Emissions-Infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CO2 emissions<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukgbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Retrofit-Comfort-Infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">occupant comfort<\/a>. This data is also being incorporated into the retrofit projects and charts on this website.<br \/>\nYou can also <a title=\"Retrofit report\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukgbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Retrofit-Revealed-The-Retrofit-for-the-Future-projects-data-analysis-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download a PDF<\/a> of the report.<br \/>\nData provided by Retrofit for the Future projects shows that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Energy consumption and CO2 emissions can be massively reduced by retrofitting homes<\/li>\n<li>Retrofit can improve occupants\u2019 comfort and satisfaction with their homes<\/li>\n<li>Residents in retrofitted properties are better able to achieve comfortable living conditions at a reasonable cost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The analysis of the data from 37 properties found that three projects achieved the desired 80% reduction in CO2 emissions, with 23 reaching between 50% and 80%.<br \/>\nA key result, aside from the reduction in carbon emissions that followed a retrofit project, was that residents living in retrofitted houses are more able to afford to keep their homes at a comfortable temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Retrofit for the Future competition catalysed the retrofit of over 100 homes across the UK, with an ambition of achieving an 80% reduction in the in-use CO2 emissions of each property. Coordinated by the Technology Strategy Board , the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/2013\/07\/retrofit-for-the-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowenergybuildings.org.uk\/leb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}