Transform-ER: A Retrofit Revolution for UK Homes
12th October 2024
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.
What’s been achieved as of September 2024?
Certification review to identify challenges and gaps in the current approvals structure for new products
Identification of common interfaces to define a methodology for standardisation to enable product interoperability
Development of Culture Change tools for retrofit and a survey to understand baseline culture and trust in the retrofit sector
Draft process flows and high-level technical architecture for the portfolio and pipeline assessment platform
Research and development into innovative contracting approaches, via interviews, desktop research and case studies.
Comprehensive stakeholder engagement to understand challenges in the sector, and what needs to change.
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We are looking to engage with retrofit installers and other stakeholders in the supply chain to develop financeable, whole house retrofit solutions. Get in touch if this is you!
Project lead: Energiesprong UK
Project partners: Ambue, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Bow Tie Construction, BRE, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, KIN, the MTC, Planarific, Tallarna, Tata Steel, Ultrapanel and Vundahaus.
Contact: Communications@energiesprong.uk
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