Transform-ER: A Retrofit Revolution for UK Homes

Transform-ER (Transform.Engage.Retrofit) is a game-changing, consortium-led project funded by Innovate UK that’s tackling retrofit’s biggest barriers to scale - enabling one million home upgrades every year by 2030. It’s designed to create a cohesive, industrialised sector that delivers high-performance, cost-effective solutions through a standardised process. 

Systemic change to tackle multiple, intertwined challenges 

13 industry leaders are collaborating to use the Demand-Develop-Deploy structure to: 

• Develop new digital tools and approaches to assessing portfolios, categorising typologies, aggregating demand, identifying retrofit performance risk, and enabling standardisation. 

• Create a Community Interest Company to provide an equitable and structured ‘profit for purpose’ market vehicle that can unlock new income streams, as well as foster culture change through increased collaboration. 

• Streamline accreditation routes and prototyping products and kits-of-parts, defining interoperability standards to cost-effectively meet demand. 

• Form a Retrofit Rulebook to document the activities in the project as case studies and set out clear guidance for other industry actors and those wishing to join the retrofit revolution. 

The end goal? A new industrialised retrofit system and marketplace that upgrades homes and improves lives – open to existing and new delivery partners – tested and ready to launch in 2025, alongside a wealth of learning to be shared widely with the industry.