Innovate UK: Unlocking Investment into Whole House Retrofit

By Colin Munro

Wrapt was succesful in securing support from Innovate UK to develop solutions and methods to test and evaluate the most appropriate measures for complex homes within housing association’s stock. We identified the relevance of developing the appropriate performance outputs (building, health, energy, social) that can unlock funding and investment into social housing properties. The phase 1 was delivered in collaboration with Leeds Beckett University and Otley Energy to identify key barriers to the uptake of retrofit of hard-to-treat homes and sought to identify a process that could overcome these barriers and harness the opportunities presented at the point of void property turnaround within its maintenance lifecycle.