Congratulations to the 2026 finalists!

Congratulations to our 2026 Unlock Net Zero finalists!

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Biodiversity and nature award 

• Building Climate Resilience with Biodiversity - collaboration with Anglian Water, Essex Council and BioScapes
• Green Spaces Management for Nature - BFL 
• Green roof cycle shelters, bin stores, rest/smoking shelters, bee sand planters - Green Roof Shelters 
• Vinci Facilities Project Life - Integrating biodiversity and climate resilience within the MoD estate 
• Weston Coyney Road - Social Housing REIT (SOHO) 
• Biodiversity-Led Open Space Management - Meadfleet 
• Biodiversity Pathway - Southern Housing 
• 25 swift nest bricks - Southern Housing 

Skills and training award 

• Connected Home, City & Guilds-assured course - Aico 
• Apprenticeships - Crawford & Co Surveyors 
• Heat Network Training - Chirpy Heat 
• CBC training - Cudd Bentley Consulting 
• Skills, training and talent development programme - FairHeat 
• Muse 
• Sustainable Futures - Stonewater 
• Retrofit and fabric-first approach - SWIP 
• Greenworkx and WPS: Scaling Retrofit Excellence 
• The Carbon Literacy Project 
• Retrofit and green skills project - West of England Mayoral Combined Authority  
• Low Carbon Technology Training Centre - YNGR Design 

Engagement campaign of the year, sponsored by Love to Rent

• Supporting the Great British Spring Clean - Axis Europe 
• Barnet’s free home energy fix - London Borough of Barnet 
• Warm homes, lower bills: our residents’ retrofit journey - Midlands Rural Housing and Warwickshire Rural Housing Association 
• No Floor No More CIC 
• Metis by SMS - Oxfordshire Area-Wide Retrofit Programme - SMS  
• Resident-led retrofit engagement - Southern Housing 
• Retrofit project - Southern Housing 
• Tope Developments 
• Greener Living, a community‑led environmental engagement campaign for North Paddington - Westminster City Council 
• Powys County Council and Warm Wales - Warm Powys 

Innovation of the year: Greater London, sponsored by Net Zero Fund Management

• AI-DOMP 
• Europa Fanton FMC4 connectors - Europa 
• The Solar Guardian – Europa 
• Innovation in retrofit - Fortem 
• Green Roof Cycle Shelters, Bin Stores, Rest/Smoking Shelters, Bee Sand Planters - Green Roof Shelters 
• RetroSPECT by Kestrix - using drones and AI to verify retrofit outcomes 

Innovation of the year: The North, Scotland and Wales, sponsored by Net Zero Fund Management

• Scott Court - Allume UK 
• Alchemai 
• Social Ground - Cyd Innovation 
• FLoMaX - Envirohire 
• JustHeat - Haydale 
• Shared Works - Novoville 
• Squosh mobile bin store management system - Squosh Compacting Company 
• Homelife: a digital PAS 2035 delivery and compliance platform - Property Tectonics 
• Breatheasy insulation system - Wrapt Homes 

Innovation of the year: The South and the Midlands, sponsored by Net Zero Fund Management

• Chinnery Court - Carbon3 and Gravesham Borough Council 
• Brockmoor pioneering net zero neighbourhood - Equans UK & Ireland 
• COSIE Homes Pro - IoT Solutions Group 
• SHEM: Smart Home Energy Management with St Basils - Mixergy 
• Pia Honey - No Floor No More CIC 
• Energy Saver App - Oxfordshire County Council and Metis 
• SNG 
• ENlight® with HeatRepeat® - Triton Showers
• Wunderhaus 
• Low Carbon Technology Training Centre - YNGR Design 

Retrofit project of the year: London and the South, sponsored by Fusion21

• Cambridge City Council Warm Homes : Social Housing Fund / SHDF - 2035 Assessments 
• Cleveland House - Carbon3 and Gravesham Borough Council 
• Albion Court - City Sanctuary
• Babergh & Mid Suffolk District Council (BMSDC) social housing retrofit programme - Equans
• Heritage decarbonisation at Wadham College - Eyesea Green and Wadham College
• Lancaster West neighbourhood team, Bramley House Tenants and Residents’ Association and Amber Construction
• Lloyds Living and Octopus Energy Zero Bills Winnycroft project: a blueprint for retrofit excellence
• Morgan Sindall Property Services and Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council - Morgan Sindall Property Services
• EPC Upgrade Programme - Social Housing REIT
• SMS - Metis By SMS Oxfordshire area-wide retrofit programme 
• Retrofit team - Southern Housing 
• The Cambridge Building Society - home retrofit project ‍
• Retrofitting homes with Orbit - WPS

Retrofit project of the year: Midlands and Wales, sponsored by Fusion21

• Warm Homes - Amplius and Lovell Renew 
• Birmingham City Council SHDF Wave 2.1 - Baily Garner 
• Wolverhampton Homes and Constructive Thinking - SHDF Wave 2.2 - Constructive Thinking Studio 
• SNG Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1
• Stonewater’s SHDF 2.1 national homes retrofit - Stonewater 
• Martin Prodger - Pools Cottages 
• Retrofit for the Future - Platform Housing Group  
• Powys County Council and Warm Wales - Warm Powys 

Retrofit project of the year: Scotland and the North, sponsored by Fusion21

• Scott Court - Allume UK 
• Marion Roberts Court - CPH Retrofit 
• Torus WH:SHF Wave 3 - Constructive Thinking Studio 
• Riverside Homes Wave 2.1 - Constructive Thinking Studio 
• Zoe Walton - FPP Benefits Group 
• Energy efficiency project delivery: Newmachar, Aberdeenshire - Grampian Housing Association 
• Hall Park Retrofit Project - Kingdom Housing Association 
• Livin Housing and Mears Group 
• SHDF Wave 2.1 Project - Next Energy 
• Park Haus, Stretford EnerPHit - Progress in Practice and Myzsa Group 
• L&Q SHDF Altrincham, Trafford - Structherm 
• Broxtowe Conservation - Structherm 
• ACHA Rothesay - Russell Street and High Street - Structherm 

Collaboration of the year: Greater London 

• Woolwich Leisure Centre - a collaborative effort between FairHeat, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Morgan Sindall and Van Zyl & de Villiers 
• Zero Carbon Accelerator - Greater London Authority and Mott MacDonald 
• E.ON and Kestrix - net zero neighbourhoods - Kestrix 
• Barnet’s free energy fix partnership - London Borough of Barnet and Groundwork London 
• Grow London Early Stage - net zero collaboration - London & Partners 
• SDF project team - Muse 
• Retrofit Works  
• Transform. Engage. Retrofit - Transform-ER 
• Sustainable City Charter - Westminster City Council and Westminster Property Association 

Collaboration of the year: Midlands and Wales 

• Amplius Warm Homes and Lovell Renew - Amplius  
• Driving excellent customer experiences in retrofit - Birmingham City Council and Novoville 
• Crawford and SBS - Delivering quality warm homes - Crawford & Co Surveyors 
• Retrofit with heart, for Action For Children - Cyd Innovation 
• E.ON Green Funding Solutions and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham - Cosy Homes 
• Gedling Green - Keepmoat 
• A fabric-first heritage transformation - Belchamp Community Hoduse - SWIP and CT ECO Plus 
• SHAP’s Retrofit Success Guides - Sustainable Housing Action Partnership (SHAP) 
• Biodiversity in Housing Network - Stonewater 
• Powys County Council and Warm Wales - Warm Powys 

Collaboration of the year: The North 

• City Plumbing and Midea Cooling & Heating 
• Golden Lane Housing and LivGreen - A partnership approach to retrofit across homes for people with a learning disability and autistic people 
• Greater Manchester SuDS Guidance - Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Combined Authority - Civic  
• Leeds City Council and Equans 
• Northstone / Ultrapanel / Wondrwall - Project 974 
• Riverside SHDF Wave 2 - The Riverside Group and Constructive Thinking 
• RPS Group and Together Housing 

Collaboration of the year: The South 

• Carbon3 and Gravesham Borough Council 
• CBC - Chancerygate Collaboration - Cudd Bentley Consulting 
• Ecosafe Group and Aster Group - Damp, mould condensation and retrofit works 
• Fairhive Homes and Marlec Engineering 
• Better Housing Better Health Project for Southern Gas Networks - National Energy Foundation 
• Metis by SMS in partnership with Oxfordshire County Council 
• SNG Mitsubishi Electric UK and Samsung Climate Solutions 
• South Cambridgeshire District Council and Mears Group 
• Value Optimised Retrofit in partnership with Bristol City Leap 

Supply chain partner of the year 

• Aico 
• Retrofit assessments - Crawford & Co Surveyors 
• Carbon3 
• Retrofit warm homes - LJM Solutions 
• Retrofit Works and Crystal Windows & Doors - Retrofit Works 
• Stelrad Radiators supply chain partner 
• Trusted retrofit delivery partner - SWIP 
• More Than a Merchant - A decarbonisation partner - Travis Perkins Managed Services 

Contractor of the year 

• Briggs Amasco 
• Elite Renewables 
• Equans UK & Ireland 
• Fortem and Birmingham City Council 
• Livgreen Retrofit Specialists 
• Morgan Sindall Property Services 
• WPS 
• ZED PODS 

Organisation of the year: Built environment and infrastructure 

• Barratt Redrow  
• Briggs Amasco 
• Carbon3 
• Cyd Innovation 
• Constructive Thinking Studio 
• Cudd Bentley Consulting 
• E.ON 
• LivGreen retrofit specialists 
• Muse
• S I Sealy - Net Zero UK 
• Warm Homes: Local Grant, East Sussex - RetrofitWorks 

Organisation of the year: People and services 

• Housing delivery team - Haringey Council 
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority 
• Progress in Practice 
• Sanctuary Energy Team Retrofit - Sanctuary Housing Association 
• Trust Electric Heating 
• The Carbon Literacy Project 
• Unity Trust Bank 
• ZE Passivhaus Services 

New build development of the year: London and the South 

• Avon Point – Aliva UK and Unite Students
• Elm Grove affordable Passivhaus - Alliance Homes 
• Saxon Brook by Barratt Redrow 
• Westmead - Child Graddon Lewis 
• The Walled Garden - Castlethorpe Homes 
• Ealing Film Studios - CREATE Design 
• Barnfield Road (Spooner House) - Fuse Architects 
• Octopus Energy with gs8: building the UK’s largest fully renewable zero bills microgrid community 
• Wensley Road - Reading Borough Council 
• Crofts House - ZED PODS 

New build development of the year: The North and Midlands 

• Northstone - Abri 
• No.1 Ancoats Green - This City, in partnership with Manchester City Council 
• DWP Talbot Gateway - Muse 
• One Creative Environments 
• Copper Beech Passivhaus Plus - Progress in Practice and Bailey Projects 

Funding team of the year 

• Allume UK  
• Climate action team - Haringey Council 
• Octopus Capital - Affordable housing team 
• SMS - Metis by SMS 
• Sanctuary energy team - Sanctuary Group 
• Green tariff for loans - Unity Trust Bank 
• Treasury - Vivid 
• Zero Friction 

ESG team of the year, sponsored by Fortem

• Social and Affordable Housing Group - Addleshaw Goddard 
• Sustainability team - Clarion Housing Group 
• L&Q’s sustainability team - L&Q 
• Moda Group ESG team - Moda Living 
• ESG team - North 
• Sureserve ESG - Sureserve Group 

Landlord of the year 

• Citizen Housing Group 
• Bury Council 
• Social Housing REIT 
• This City, in partnership with Manchester City Council 
• Sanctuary energy team retrofit - Sanctuary Housing Association 

Climate Champions’ Power List 

• Marion Baeli - 10 Design 
• Agnes Czako - AirEx Technologies 
• Gillian Mulroe - Anchor 
• Fallon Warren - Amplius 
• Dr Joel Callow - Beyond Carbon Associates 
• Ahmed Abdullah Al Tawheed - Cudd Bentley Consulting 
• Justin Tan - Constructive Thinking Studio 
• Matthew Ratcliff - Domna 
• Josefa Vella - Fuse Architects 
• Nikoleta Filippidi - Fuse Architects 
• Dr Bahareh Salehi - Hoare Lea 
• Suzanne Kimman - Haringey Council 
• Lee Lindley - LJM Solutions 
• Kelo Uchendu - Mott MacDonald 
• Syreeta Bayne - Muse
• Sara Darwin - PHI Architects
• Graham Rothwell - Rothwell Plumbing Services - RPS Group 
• Jo Butterfield - Southern Housing 
• Andrew Tod - Sureserve Group 
• Dr Marcus William Rutherford - Tope Developments 
• Fiona Conor - Trust Electric Heating 
• Ben Williams - WPS