Wates has been appointed to retrofit 410 homes as part of a decarbonisation initiative by UK not-for-profit housing group Orbit. The contract will see Wates deliver energy efficiency improvements to 160 homes through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund’s (SHDF) Wave 2.1 with the remaining 250 properties funded by Orbit and the Government’s ECO4 programme. The…
Social Housing
A new partnership between The Retrofit Academy and the Greater South East Net Zero Hub (GSENZH) will help train and develop the workforce required to retrofit an estimated 13.9 million households in the South East of England. The partnership comes as local authorities and social housing providers in the South East region were awarded over…
The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has made grants totalling £1.8 billion to local authorities, social housing providers and charities in England as part of the government’s latest initiative to reduce building-realted emissions. More than 115,000 homes are being earmarked to receive upgrades funded through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and Public…