A new publication investigating how 10 housing projects are performing 10 years after their retrofit has been published by CIBSE.
The Retrofit Revisit report was written by Marion Baeli, principal, sustainability transformation, at 10 Design, and Julie Godefroy, head of net zero policy at CIBSE, and supported by Innovate UK and Historic England, as well as project partners, including Studio PDP.
Despite small fluctuations in performance over a decade, the report finds that retrofitted residences outperform non-retrofitted housing stock overall.
Godefroy said: ‘When done well, retrofit provides huge energy savings, as well as comfortable homes. I hope this will encourage additional studies, to gather lessons on more retrofit typologies and larger samples, and give confidence to industry and policy-makers to implement retrofit at scale.’
Read about the research in ‘Revisiting retrofits 10 years’ on CIBSE Journal, March 2024. Download the report at Retrofit Revisit.