What Really Happens Inside a Aome After Retrofit

We talk a great deal in this sector about EPC ratings, carbon savings and the race to net zero. What we talk about far less is what it is actually like to live inside one of these homes, in winter, with the heating on as little as a household can manage, when money is very tight and health is already fragile. . 

Dr Tiffany Yang presented at the Healthy Homes Hub Ideas Exchange, from the Bradford Institute for Health Research, where she co-leads the Healthy Homes research programme within Born in Bradford. For those who do not know it, Born in Bradford is a remarkable piece of work. It began in 2007 as a birth cohort following pregnant women, and it has tracked more than 12,500 women and their families ever since, with that first generation of children now turning 18. Sitting underneath it is a data infrastructure that links health, education and routine records for more than 600,000 Bradford residents.  

Tiffany's team has taken all that depth and pointed it at a simple, urgent question. When we retrofit social housing for energy efficiency, what actually happens to the people inside?