Public Funding for Zero Carbon Hub Limited

The LENDERS is led by Nationwide Building Society, administered by BRE, and with partners Principality Building Society, UK Green Building Council, Energy Saving Trust, Zero Carbon Hub, Constructing Excellence Wales, University College London Energy Institute and Arup, and is supported by Innovate UK. The project will evidence the capacity to use a residential property's Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and other factors to predict to a reasonable degree of accuracy the homeowners' actual fuel bill. The project will go on to develop from this new methodology for estimating homeowners' fuel costs using only inputs normally available at the point of agreeing a mortgage. This methodology is intended to be suitably robust to enable it to replace the existing allowances typically used in mortgage institutions' own mortgage "Affordability Calculations", and the project will make the method freely available to mortgage institutions. The project will therefore enable mortgage providers to better take into account the energy performance, and hopes to encourage borrowers to place more value on energy efficiency as a result of this.

HAPI is an innovative online housing performance feedback management system, which seeks to provide a step-change in improving the flow of information throughout the construction supply chain of new social housing projects, by better use of housing performance feedback through hindsight from past projects, insight from ongoing projects and foresight to influence future projects. HAPI will have the capability to capture, collate, curate and link feedback on housing performance right from briefing stage through to design, construction, commissioning, handover and occupation, and provide best (and common) practice and bespoke advice in one place, in an easy-to-understand and accessible manner. Currently there is no such information/knowledge management system which makes actual performance data available, accessible and searchable at any time for use by housing providers, designers, constructors and suppliers. HAPI will enable integration across the housing construction supply chain to deliver better performing homes. This will inturn streamline the supply chain processes and reduce the performance gap.

Awaiting Public Summary

Awaiting Public Summary

The public description for this project has been requested but has not yet been received.