ARUP and ROK teamed up with Forum for the Future under the Engineers of the 21st Century programme to look at opportunities for providing refurbishment services to private homeowners at scale. The Bristol area was used as a case study and SAP energy ratings were carried out for generic housing types. Cost and carbon savings were then analysed for different levels of refurbishment and different quantities of homes, either clustered or dispersed, across the city region.

The results of this research will feed into Forum for the Future’s Refit West project, which is aiming to retrofit 1000 private homes in the West of England by 2011.

A two-page summary is available to download here.

For more information, please contact: Ann Cousins (Arup) or Lorna Pelly