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Funding for 69 projects will help cut fuel bills for social housing tenants and deliver warmer homes

|Date: 8 February, 2022

Funding for 69 projects will help cut fuel bills for social housing tenants and deliver warmer homes

Tens of thousands of social housing tenants across England will have their energy bills cut and homes mad ...

Tens of thousands of social housing tenants across England will have their energy bills cut and homes made warmer as the Government makes £179m available to improve energy efficiency. The funding anno ...

8 February, 2022
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1950s block of flats in Great Yarmouth given new lease of life

|Date: 24 January, 2022

1950s block of flats in Great Yarmouth given new lease of life

Beattie Passive, one of the UK’s leading organisations in the Passivhaus space, has breathed new life int ...

Beattie Passive, one of the UK’s leading organisations in the Passivhaus space, has breathed new life into a 1950s terraced block of flats in Great Yarmouth with a successful deep retrofit. The projec ...

24 January, 2022
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Skills shortage in four key jobs and three sector challenges curbing UK home decarbonisation

|Date: 14 January, 2022

Skills shortage in four key jobs and three sector challenges curbing UK home decarbonisation

A skills shortage in four key jobs — coupled with three key sector challenges — have been identified in a ...

A skills shortage in four key jobs — coupled with three key sector challenges — have been identified in a review of the skills required to decarbonise UK homes for net zero. The report, Foresighting S ...

14 January, 2022
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First retrofit conference of 2022: Liverpool’s person-centred approach

|Date: 13 January, 2022

First retrofit conference of 2022: Liverpool’s person-centred approach

Set against the backdrop of the growing energy costs crisis, Low Carbon Homes’ first retrofit conference ...

Set against the backdrop of the growing energy costs crisis, Low Carbon Homes’ first retrofit conference of 2022 seeks to kick-start the energy efficiency improvement of Liverpool City Region homes — ...

13 January, 2022
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Net zero housing — how do we do that?

|Date: 21 December, 2021

Net zero housing — how do we do that?

How do we make UK housing net zero? Doing it is one thing. Paying for it is entirely different. In his fo ...

How do we make UK housing net zero? Doing it is one thing. Paying for it is entirely different. In his fourth of our series of articles, Andy Sutton, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Sero, f ...

21 December, 2021
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Sero collaborates with CWIC to create green skills workshop

|Date: 2 December, 2021

Sero collaborates with CWIC to create green skills workshop

Energy tech company Sero has collaborated with Construction Wales Innovation Centre (CWIC) to create a ne ...

Energy tech company Sero has collaborated with Construction Wales Innovation Centre (CWIC) to create a new mobile classroom in a drive to upskill students, apprentices, and tradespeople in low carbon ...

2 December, 2021
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Focus to help decarbonise homes after Community Renewal Fund grant announced for Nottingham

|Date: 1 December, 2021

Focus to help decarbonise homes after Community Renewal Fund grant announced for Nottingham

Focus has welcomed the news that Nottingham City Council has been awarded £3m funding from the Government ...

Focus has welcomed the news that Nottingham City Council has been awarded £3m funding from the Government’s UK Community Renewal Fund (UK CRF), which will help accelerate the city’s 2028 net zero carb ...

1 December, 2021
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Nottingham green housing project to be showcased as part of COP26 Climate Change Conference

|Date: 27 October, 2021

Nottingham green housing project to be showcased as part of COP26 Climate Change Conference

A project to transform some of Nottingham’s hardest-to-heat council homes into super warm and energy-effi ...

A project to transform some of Nottingham’s hardest-to-heat council homes into super warm and energy-efficient houses, has been chosen to be showcased at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Confere ...

27 October, 2021
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Wigan Council first to go green with device that saves tenants energy, money, and cuts carbon emissions

|Date: 19 October, 2021

Wigan Council first to go green with device that saves tenants energy, money, and cuts carbon emissions

Social housing tenants will save energy, slash their fuel bills and reduce their impact on the environmen ...

Social housing tenants will save energy, slash their fuel bills and reduce their impact on the environment after Wigan Council became the first in the UK to install a pioneering device made from recyc ...

19 October, 2021
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London housing plan to help achieve net zero and unlock £98bn boost to ‘greener future’

|Date: 15 October, 2021

London housing plan to help achieve net zero and unlock £98bn boost to ‘greener future’

A new plan to achieve net zero across all London properties could see a £98bn investment in the green eco ...

A new plan to achieve net zero across all London properties could see a £98bn investment in the green economy and result in massive environmental and economic benefits, boroughs have declared. All 33 ...

15 October, 2021
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