Equitable portfolio upgrades for demand reduction (EPURE) tool

建筑环境每年贡献了英国温室气体排放总量的25%，这正在缓慢降低威胁投资组合的净零目标。迫切需要关注的是，让房主、房东、社会住房、私营商业部门、学校和公共资产能够更迅速、更公正地过渡到脱碳途径。EPURE解决方案概念提出了一种工具，结合了最佳数据源，用于在投资组合级别构建特征，以及升级干预解决方案、居住者需求和供应链能力。它将开发和测试可扩展的商业服务提案，使用户能够确定短期、中期和长期的投资组合升级，以减少需求（减少排放和占用者账单）。这种数据驱动的方法来评估和定义升级建筑组合的适当途径，将提供实用的脱碳选择，并有助于为实现建筑改进的供应链建立市场确定性。我们选择与赫特福德郡议会合作，作为主要用户，并召集了广泛的利益相关者（例如，建筑投资组合所有者、供应链组织、金融机构、代表居住者/用户的团体）来帮助塑造这个概念。EPURE解决方案概念是一种建筑组合选择工具，它使用来自BRE（全英国住房数据，提供状况和性能洞察，并识别燃料贫困家庭）的独特数据，结合开放访问数据源（例如，OpenEPC，供应链基础设施）和目标用户数据（例如，赫特福德郡议会大楼），以确定升级现有建筑的最佳方法。概念解决方案将建筑原型（类型、年龄、位置、构造）与特定的居住者需求、升级技术以及地方和国家供应链的范围和能力相结合。数据来源的结合使我们能够确定从升级中受益最大的公共建筑，以及燃料贫困家庭或社区中需要支持的弱势群体。解决方案概念成功的关键在于，它不会“把建筑物抛在后面”，也不会只适用于社会的特定部分。我们在利益相关者中加入了当地慈善机构和住房协会，以帮助解决这一问题，并为技术解决方案提供供应链。BRE是一家独立、公正、以研究为基础的咨询公司，在建筑环境和相关行业的各个方面提供专业知识。我们值得信赖的独立标准和产品使我们能够在第二阶段之后开发和部署EPURE，以构建业务/投资案例。

The built environment contributes 25% of total UK GHG emissions per annum which is slowly reducing threatening net zero ambitions for portfolios. Urgent attention is needed to enable a more rapid and just transition to decarbonisation pathways by homeowners, landlords, social housing, private sector commercial, schools and public assets. The EPURE solution concept proposes a tool combining the best possible data sources for building characterisation at portfolio level, with upgrade intervention solutions, occupant needs and supply chain capacity to deliver. It will develop and test a scalable commercial service proposition to enable users to identify short-, medium- and longer-term upgrades to portfolios to reduce demand (reduced emissions and occupant bills). This data driven approach to assessing and defining appropriate pathways for upgrading building portfolios will provide practical decarbonisation options and contribute to building market certainty for supply chains delivering building improvements.We have selected to work with Hertfordshire County Council as the primary user and have assembled a wide range of stakeholders (e.g., building portfolio owners, supply chain organisations, financial institutions, groups representing occupants/users) to help shape the concept. The EPURE solution concept is a building portfolio optioneering tool that uses unique data from BRE (UK wide housing data to provide condition and performance insight and identify households in fuel poverty) combined with open-access data sources (e.g., OpenEPC, supply chain infrastructure) and target users data (e.g., Hertfordshire County Council buildings) to identify best approaches to upgrading existing buildings. The concept solution uses building archetypes (type, age, location, construction) combined with specific occupant needs, upgrade technologies and the extent and capacity of local and national supply chains to deliver.The combination of data sources provides us with the ability to identify public buildings most benefiting from upgrade as well as households in fuel poverty or those with more vulnerable members of the community that need support accessing upgrade. Critical to the success of the solution concept is that it doesn't 'leave buildings behind' or only work for a specific section of society. We have included in our stakeholder engagement local charities and housing associations to help with this as well as the supply chain for technical solutions.BRE is an independent and impartial, research-based consultancy, offering expertise in every aspect of the built environment and associated industries. Our trusted and independent standards and products positions us strongly to develop and deploy EPURE building the business/investment case beyond Phase 2\.