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Whether you like it or not, every action we take to improve the UK housing stock comes with a carbon cost. So how do we know that the carbon savings promised by retrofit will counter the emissions we create in...
How can social housing providers rapidly assess their whole stock for the risk of damp and mould? The Health Risk Prediction service from Parity Projects assesses a clients housing stock data – whether its complaints, monitoring or survey data –...
Innovations and Progress in Housing Retrofit: January 2024 Portfolio User Group
By Thomas Lashbrooke January 22nd, 2024
This article brings you key highlights and innovations discussed at the first Portfolio User Group of 2024, a quarterly event hosted online for landlords retrofitting social housing. This week’s group session was attended by 80+ housing professionals representing more than...
Pioneering Energy Saving Home Improvements with Green Home Finance Accelerator Funding
By Liz Laine January 19th, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Parity Projects’ Ecofurb service has received £699,610 funding, courtesy of the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’s Green Home Finance Accelerator, part of the £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. The Government aims...
London’s housing faces huge challenges, from the health risks of damp and mould to the urgency of retrofit to meet Net Zero. We need to deploy resources efficiently, which relies on having the right data at your fingertips with smart...
Delivery of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund 2.1 (SHDF) is in full swing. Initial plans are being tested by the real world as retrofit coordinators develop the MTIPs required by PAS2035. And initial plans don’t always meet that test. That’s...
Our Managing Director, Russell Smith, recently appeared as a guest speaker on the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator (SHRA) podcast. He joins Fallon Warren from Orbit Group and Turner & Townsend’s Associate Director of Sustainability, Sarah Daly. Together, they demystify the...