PROJECTS & INNOVATION

We need to learn from doing. Read about practical developments and innovation that is moving the decarbonisation of homes and buildings forward.

Contractor and CIH president call for national retrofit skills strategy

The president of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and a large contractor have called for a national skills strategy to scale up retrofit.

Derbyshire residents to benefit from major retrofit works to estates

Programme involving High Peak Borough Council, Michael Dyson Associates and Seddon Housing Partnership has seen PV panels and air source heat pumps installed across 40 homes

Willmott Dixon to build net zero in operation flagship Lincolnshire secure children's home

The Department for Education funded project will include solar panels, power storage and a partial grid solution

Construction Development East Midlands Net Zero

Willmott Dixon to deliver £21 million sustainably designed SEND school for West Northamptonshire Council

The new school will be powered by solar photovoltaics and heated by air source heat pumps

Built Environment Construction Development East Midlands

£5.5 million retrofit project starts in Nottinghamshire

The SHDF funded project is being delivered by Sustainable Building Services (UK) for Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing

Built Environment East Midlands Net Zero

Air quality monitoring firm secures funding from NatWest using its IP as collateral

EarthSense develops air quality monitoring to help organisations address pollution issues

Climate change East Midlands Finance and funding Leicester Net Zero

IES and Mott MacDonald to lead on country's largest local area energy plan

The region’s action plan will look to help meet Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire’s net zero targets

Built Environment Climate change Derby East Midlands Energy/Environment Infrastructure Net Zero Nottingham

Intelligent Energy unveils new hydrogen fuel cell with the power to unlock a zero emission future for passenger cars

The company says this is the first engine-shaped fuel cell system developed in the UK for the passenger car market

Climate change East Midlands Energy/Environment Net Zero Transport

Equans awarded Platform Housing energy efficiency contract

Over 500 homes across Leicestershire and Lincolnshire will have efficiency measures applied following funding from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund secured through a bid led by the Midlands Net Zero Hub

Accommodation provider Built Environment Climate change East Midlands Energy/Environment Leicester Net Zero