We were chuffed to talk to journalist Helen Pidd and to be featured in the Guardian newspaper highlighting our work on the development of green skills in the retrofit and construction sector. A well developed, skilled and able supply chain is one of the key elements of a domestic retrofit market and during the R&D … Read more
We are really excited to announce the launch of a Community Share issue for People Powered Retrofit on 6 September, the next stage in the development of our ‘One Stop Shop’ for retrofit. Developing out of the retrofit work we have been doing for the past ten years, this new end to end, householder retrofit … Read more
If you’ve always wanted to contribute to an organisation founded with the express purpose of tackling climate change: now’s your chance! We are hiring a variety of roles across a range of skills as we continue to develop our People Powered Retrofit service. These include a Contractors and Supply Chain manager to build relationships within … Read more
This new, unique course brings together theory and practical experience and it digs into how to apply building physics to the messy reality retrofit. The content, delivered virtually via Zoom, focuses on fabric work that will be needed to buildings that regulation Part L applies to, in order to reduce their carbon emissions. For course … Read more
We have released a practical toolkit to help funded energy efficiency schemes become more people-centered. This toolkit experiments with changing one aspect of energy efficiency scheme delivery in an attempt to shift culture. We explore what happens if we turn our approach to designing retrofit schemes on its head. Rather than working to the needs … Read more
Hello. We wanted to let you know that we are currently experiencing an exceptionally high level of demand for People Powered Retrofit services. On one level this is great news, but it also sadly means we need to pause new clients enquiries, including requests for our Home Retrofit Planner assessment service, whilst we clear the … Read more