To address the climate emergency all the UK’s housing stock will have to meet at least EPC Band C by 2030. 71% of UK housing doesn’t yet meet this standard. This includes over 4m social housing units.
The scale of this challenge is shadowed by the need to achieve net carbon zero housing stock by 2050. A massive (and largely unquantified) programme is needed to install insulation, zero carbon heating and renewable energy systems.
Piecemeal approaches to the climate emergency will be too slow and unpredictable. They expose social landlords to significant risks over delivery times and costs.
Cardo collaboration with sustainable construction specialists and key supplier partners offers social housing providers a comprehensive and fully integrated zero carbon retrofit service. This includes asset condition surveys, scoping, planning, supply chain management and delivery of large scale retrofit programmes.
Social housing providers face significant challenges. These include:
Cardo have the skills, capacity and process to overcome each of these challenges.
The multistage process towards net carbon zero performance is fully managed and integrated. Here are the main stages:
The existing condition and current energy performance of much of the UK’s social housing stock is largely undocumented. So the margins of error in budgets and schedules are significant.
The Cardo collaboration delivers the expertise and capacity to survey thousands of homes rapidly and efficiently. The resulting comprehensive asset condition data allows for accurate planning and budgeting.
Our extensive experience over 15 years in offsite energy efficient housing manufacture combined with real-world energy efficiency and zero carbon upgrades within our partnership skills will establish the most time and cost-effective methods for each situation. Options include internal and external wall insulation (including expanded polystyrene, spray foam and wood fibre), air-tightness membranes, draught proofing and replacement doors and windows.
Net zero carbon heating is one of the biggest challenges facing housing providers. Gas boilers are the predominant heating source today. These will need to be replaced with air source heat pumps, powered wherever possible by PV panels. Detailed planning and well-managed supply chains will be essential to minimise the financial and delivery risks of these substantial work programmes.
Cardo specialises in Total Asset Management. This approach delivers maximum efficiency and value for money by integrating zero carbon retrofit programmes with other work streams such as voids, responsive repairs and scheduled maintenance.
