Flooding and Resilience workshop – how it went

Trainer in classroom pointing at slide presentation

On Wednesday 19th of April we gathered at Todmorden College for the third workshop in this series to talk about the relationship between retrofit and making our homes more able to withstand and recover from flooding events. Our colleague Helen took the group of attendees through the various building-level impacts of flooding, in particular the … Read more

Calderdale Airtightness Workshop

Facilitator showing how to use draught proofing product

On a snowy Saturday morning in Todmorden, residents got together to learn how to make their homes more airtight! The session hosted by Carbon Co-op, is the second of a four-part series of workshops as a part of Retrofit Calderdale.  We started off by spending some time navigating our way through the relationship between draughtproofing … Read more

Podcast Power in the City Episode 4: Hitting home

This episode is all about staying warm. By putting a jumper on your home! Yes, it’s about energy efficiency in the home, about retrofit, its benefits for householders and the difficulties (and nifty ideas) that arise when trying to scale that up across different building types and tenures.

Developing a UK metered energy savings tool

Carbon Co-op is delivering OpenEnEffS, a project seeking to adapt and extend the US-based CalTRACK Methods for use in a possible UK pay-for-performance retrofit programme. The project began in July and, with the summer drawing to a close, things are getting started on this exciting project.  The CalTRACK Methods recommend for the use of OpenEEMeter, … Read more

‘Person-Centred Retrofit: A fuel poverty, vulnerability led approach’ report launch

Carbon Co-op has worked with Plymouth City Council and Nottingham City Council through the mPower activate programme to investigate innovative solutions to ensure those most vulnerable to fuel poverty can access retrofit.  As a part of this work, Dr Alice Jones was commissioned to develop a person-centred approach to fuel poverty reduction, to support Plymouth … Read more