The Institution of Engineering and Technology reported in 2020 that domestic energy consumption accounts for about 30% of the UK’s total energy budget, and 20% of UK greenhouse gas emissions.

Since 80% of the homes we will be living in by 2050 have already been built, a nationwide programme of deep retrofits and refurbishment of the existing stock is the only way to deliver the required carbon savings.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲:

– Know the retrofit needs, solutions and volumes in your locality
– Design and enforce strict construction, – building specification, energy use and service standards
– Consider the sustainability and climate impacts of new developments, extensions and building conversion and re-use
– Extensions of existing sites are likely to be be more sustainable and viable than greenfield sites
– Consider and promote biomass buildings where suitable
– Devise financial tools for retrofit and biomass building finance

𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Net zero and low carbon construction initiatives and projects include Leeds’s Climate Innovation District, Freiburg’s Vauban neighbourhood. There are many examples of sustainable construction, Passivhaus construction, and timber construction.

Sustainable and circular economy industrial parks include:

– ECO3, located in the city of Nokia in Finland, is a 150 hectare industrial scale bio-economy and circular economy business park with 28 participating organisations which pioneers bio-, circular- and water- economies.
– Mo Industrial Park (MIP) is one of Norway’s largest and oldest industrial parks, with metallurgy and steel production as its core business, now utilising local hydroelectricity, and implementing a comprehensive programme for recycling energy, by-products and waste.
– Herøya Industrial Park, Norway, is home to 80 different global and local companies in the processing industries, R&D, and chemical industries, as well as several service companies. A range of circular pilot projects have been successfully implemented, including a new separation technology for rare earth elements (REE).

The Mayor of London’s RE:FIT and Retrofit Accelerator: Homes have established Office for Government Commerce registered framework suppliers for commercial and domestic retrofit which are available for use by any public authority in the UK.

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