Building Opportunities for Business Retrofit Guides

To explore the business opportunities emerging from the low carbon building and retrofit market, the Institute for Sustainability has produced a series of ‘Building Opportunities for Business’ Retrofit Guides.

The guides draw on leading academic and industry experts and provide practical and commercially focused advice and best practice to both trades and professions including architects, surveyors, builders, project managers, plumbers and electricians.

To view the full versions of these retrofit guides online, where you can also download the guides in pdf version, click here

  The guides cover the following topics:

 

1. Introduction to the low carbon domestic retrofit guides
2. Surveying and assessing dwellings for low carbon retrofit
3. Planning low carbon retrofit projects
4. Funding and procurement for low carbon retrofit projects
5. Managing low carbon retrofit projects
6. Improving the building fabric
7. Improving the building services
8. Green retrofit: materials, waste, water and maintenance
9. Living in a low carbon home
10. Identifying opportunities and promoting low carbon retrofit projects

A.     Promotion programmes for low carbon retrofit

B.    Skills, training and accreditation for low carbon retrofit

 

As part of the Institute's FLASH programme, the guides are designed to help Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) understand and engage with new business opportunities arising from low carbon retrofit. To find out more about the FLASH programme and how to sign up click here