Accelerating Retrofit for Net-Zero Housing

英国政府致力于到2050年实现二氧化碳净零排放，提高家庭能源效率在实现这一目标方面发挥着重要作用。目前的房地产翻新速度不够，必须大幅加快，以实现这些目标。加快工程可能导致走捷径，使用经验不足或能力不足的承包商，并增加失败的风险。有许多例子表明，改造装置没有达到预期效果，过早失败，在某些极端情况下破坏了结构本身的完整性。PAS 2030和PAS 2035等框架旨在通过控制流程来消除这些问题，但其使用并不广泛，也没有有效的方法来确保遵守标准。该项目将提供一个创新的新的端到端工具，帮助社会住房提供商及其代理人有效地确定和排序能源效率改进工作。拟议的系统将允许当局采取灵活和迭代的办法，仍然提供有效的监督，否则必须由适当合格的工作人员或承包商全程参与。这对许多计划来说是不切实际的，当需要大幅增加该部门的活动时，现有资源无法满足这一需求。该产品最初将被开发、测试和部署，供地方当局及其承包商使用。

The UK Government is committed to achieving net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 and energy-efficiency improvements to homes have a significant part to play in achieving this goal. Current rates of retrofit to properties are inadequate and must accelerate significantly to meet these targets.Accelerating works could lead to shortcuts being taken, less experienced or able contractors being used and risks of failures increased. There are numerous examples of retrofit installations not achieving their expected outcomes, failing prematurely and in some extreme cases undermining the integrity of the structure itself. Frameworks such as PAS 2030 and PAS 2035 are designed to remove these issues through control of processes, however, their use is not widespread and there is no effective means of ensuring adherence to the standards.This project will deliver an innovative new end-to-end tool that will help social housing providers, and their agents, to identify and sequence energy efficiency improvement work effectively. The proposed system will allow an agile and iterative approach for authorities that still provides effective oversight that would otherwise have to be provided by having suitably qualified staff or contractors involved throughout. This is seen as impractical for many schemes and, when it is necessary to substantially ramp up activity in the sector, it is a need that cannot be met with available resources.This product will initially be developed, tested and deployed for use by local authorities and their contractors.