Ongoing Funding Partner

Closing the Gap towards Net Zero Carbon: Non-Domestic Retrofit Project Partners

UKGBC is seeking partnership for a new project on non-domestic retrofit as part of their industry-leading Advancing Net Zero Programme.

Climate Change Mitigation Retrofit Advancing Net Zero Funding Partner

Future opportunity

Building on the learnings and base methodology formed from our current Commercial Retrofit project , and driven by addressing the challenges to accelerating the decarbonisation of the UK’s non-domestic buildings, we are seeking to expand this workstream to cover more non-domestic buildings types. Further growing the evidence base of the cost and carbon impact of different retrofit measures, and strategies, that offer a pathway towards net zero. Currently, planned typologies include:

Hotels: High energy usage, high level of duplication of specific examples (chain hotels), high number of touch points to potentially influence public awareness.
Schools: High potential for social value, education and community engagement, energy costs and poorly maintained facilities are a significant challenge for many schools.
Higher Education facilities: High synergy with offices, opportunity for education and more in-depth research collaboration
Public buildings: Libraries, Leisure Centres, Local Authority offices, etc.
Retail: Supermarkets etc

Objectives

To deepen awareness and understanding amongst investors, owners, managers, designers, and consultants of the carbon
and cost-effectiveness of different retrofit measures to inform planned upgrades to existing non-domestic assets, and,
Explore how to overcome common challenges to maximise compliance with future regulations and to meet the likely
ambition behind emerging net zero carbon performance targets.

Outline

Develop a suite of evidence that explores and provides the cost, operational energy efficiency potential, and
embodied carbon impact, as well as any co-benefits associated with common retrofit measures for different
types of properties, to offer a path of sequential design, operational, and management solutions to set buildings
on a path to close the gap to net zero carbon.
Focus on one or more non-domestic building typologies based on age, specification standard, HVAC system, and
lease type, etc. to explore the variety of different challenges faced by stakeholders looking to decarbonise
their/their clients’ assets.
Collate real-world examples of retrofit measures (light, deep, optimisation focused), to illustrate and compare
the true impact of different retrofit solutions that facilitate the transition towards net zero, showcasing effective
outcomes alongside lessons learnt

Learn more about the project and what it means to be a project partner.

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Project Partnership is open to UKGBC members only. Learn more about what it means to be a member and the opportunities it provides you here.

Learn more about UKGBC’s Advancing Net Zero Programme here.