Design for Manufacturing: retrofit all UK homes in 28 years

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Project Problem All of the UK's 28 million homes must be retrofitted to the highest levels of energy performance in the 28 years remaining to deliver the UK's legal commitment to zero emissions. A small number of expensive and slow one-off projects have demonstrated that this can be done, with Victorian buildings retrofitted to performance near to that of new Passiv Houses. However the costs of these projects has been very high and they have taken a long time. Converting from expensive one-off delivery to mass market coverage requires that we deploy the design and production skills and technologies of contemporary manufacturing to the practices of one-off small-scale construction. Project Objectives Aim: Describe & demonstrate a design approach to allow one million domestic retrofits per year. Objectives: - characterise the structure and energy performance of an existing home rapidly, accounting for all constraints affecting retrofit - define all possible design options for delivering retrofit to passiv standards - identify and exploit economies of scale released by advanced manufacturing