cavity wall insulation Archives

Work begins to retrofit homes in Portree amid Skye’s housing crisis

|Date: 5 July, 2023

Work begins to retrofit homes in Portree amid Skye’s housing crisis

Glasgow-based energy services firm Union Technical has commenced work to retrofit 18 homes in Skye in a b ...

Glasgow-based energy services firm Union Technical has commenced work to retrofit 18 homes in Skye in a bid to help address the island’s ongoing housing crisis. Work has begun on a £540,000 upgrade of ...

5 July, 2023
Read more
Making tenants’ homes more energy-efficient

|Date: 28 April, 2023

Making tenants’ homes more energy-efficient

Affordable housing provider believe housing has completed a £5m project to make 1,100 homes warmer, green ...

Affordable housing provider believe housing has completed a £5m project to make 1,100 homes warmer, greener, and cheaper to run … and a second, even bigger scheme is about to get underway. The County ...

28 April, 2023
Read more
Golding Homes awarded £1.4m government funding for energy efficiency improvements

|Date: 27 March, 2023

Golding Homes awarded £1.4m government funding for energy efficiency improvements

Maidstone-based housing association Golding Homes has successfully bid for £1.4m from the Department of E ...

Maidstone-based housing association Golding Homes has successfully bid for £1.4m from the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF Wave 2.1). The money ...

27 March, 2023
Read more
Shadow Minister for Energy celebrates Abri’s retrofit success

|Date: 16 March, 2023

Shadow Minister for Energy celebrates Abri’s retrofit success

Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Shadow Minister for Energy and the Green New Deal, recently visited Abri’s homes in ...

Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Shadow Minister for Energy and the Green New Deal, recently visited Abri’s homes in Bruton, Somerset, that have benefited from retrofit works. The work on the homes was completed ...

16 March, 2023
Read more
Plus Dane Housing teams up to insulate homes

|Date: 16 January, 2023

Plus Dane Housing teams up to insulate homes

Housing association Plus Dane Housing has partnered with specialist energy assessors and property surveyo ...

Housing association Plus Dane Housing has partnered with specialist energy assessors and property surveyors The Warmfront Team, to identify homes that could benefit from energy efficiency measures. To ...

16 January, 2023
Read more
Scheme to make homes warmer, greener and cheaper to heat reaches milestone

|Date: 22 November, 2022

Scheme to make homes warmer, greener and cheaper to heat reaches milestone

Work to upgrade the energy efficiency of 1,000 County Durham homes has reached a milestone, just in time ...

Work to upgrade the energy efficiency of 1,000 County Durham homes has reached a milestone, just in time for the arrival of winter. North-east housing provider believe housing is working with contract ...

22 November, 2022
Read more
EQUANS and Rotherham council cut carbon emissions and fuel bills

|Date: 12 November, 2021

EQUANS and Rotherham council cut carbon emissions and fuel bills

EQUANS, part of the ENGIE Group, has delivered significant improvement works across 215 homes on behalf o ...

EQUANS, part of the ENGIE Group, has delivered significant improvement works across 215 homes on behalf of Rotherham Council, which has led to a 30% reduction in resident fuel bills and cut carbon emi ...

12 November, 2021
Read more
Cavity Wall Insulation report released for Northern Ireland

|Date: 9 May, 2019

Cavity Wall Insulation report released for Northern Ireland

Research into cavity wall insulation in social housing and private homes in Northern Ireland has been pub ...

Research into cavity wall insulation in social housing and private homes in Northern Ireland has been published. The research was commissioned in 2017 by the Housing Executive on the back of concerns ...

9 May, 2019
Read more
Housing Survey Reveals 12% of Social Housing Residents in England and Wales Affected by Mould and Damp

|Date: 28 November, 2018

Housing Survey Reveals 12% of Social Housing Residents in England and Wales Affected by Mould and Damp

Research carried out across more than 300 local authorities in England and Wales has revealed a 12% tenan ...

Research carried out across more than 300 local authorities in England and Wales has revealed a 12% tenant complaint rate relating to mould, damp and condensation. Through the Freedom of Information A ...

28 November, 2018
Read more
Protecting the fabric of housing stock

|Date: 1 June, 2018

Protecting the fabric of housing stock

Rob McCormack, Director at BBA CIT, discusses the material considerations to protect the fabric of housin ...

Rob McCormack, Director at BBA CIT, discusses the material considerations to protect the fabric of housing stock. Getting it right first time is, undoubtedly, the aim of any social housing repair and ...

1 June, 2018
Read more