Data-Informed Retrofit
Retrofit
Retrofitting existing housing is essential to meeting decarbonisation targets while maintaining healthy, affordable homes for residents.
However, retrofit programmes are complex. Decisions around fabric, heating and ventilation significantly impact energy use, air quality and comfort.
We support housing organisations with evidence-based retrofit strategies using environmental monitoring, building performance analysis and housing research.
Data-Informed Retrofit
From predicted performance to measured outcomes.
Retrofit decisions are often based on modelling and design assumptions. In practice, homes frequently perform differently once occupied.
Understanding how buildings actually behave enables housing organisations to make better decisions about which retrofit measures deliver the greatest benefit.
Environmental monitoring helps measure performance across seasons and occupancy patterns—allowing organisations to evaluate outcomes, identify unintended consequences and improve future decisions.
Data-Informed Retrofit
Understanding how residents live in low-carbon homes
Low-carbon homes often require residents to interact with their homes in different ways.
Heating systems, ventilation strategies and energy use patterns can change significantly following retrofit. Without this understanding, even well-designed programmes may not deliver expected outcomes.
By analysing environmental conditions and occupancy patterns, organisations can better understand how residents heat and ventilate their homes, how behaviour impacts performance and where additional support may be needed.
Data-Informed Retrofit
Turning data into retrofit insight
Building performance data only becomes valuable when it informs better decisions.
Evaluating Retrofit Outcomes
Understand how interventions perform in real homes.
Property Performance Insights
Identify how different property types respond to retrofit.
Resident Wellbeing
Assess comfort, air quality and usability post-retrofit.
Future Investment Planning
Use evidence to guide long-term retrofit strategy.
Data-Informed Retrofit
Identifying risks created by retrofit
Retrofit interventions can introduce unintended risks if not properly understood and monitored.
Changes to building fabric, ventilation and heating systems can affect indoor conditions, comfort and long-term performance.
Understanding and mitigating these risks is essential to delivering successful retrofit programmes.
Supporting smarter retrofit programmes
Supporting smarter retrofit programmes
By combining research, monitoring and building performance analysis, social landlords can deliver more effective and lower-risk retrofit strategies.
Measured performance data helps organisations understand what works, improve future programmes and ensure lasting benefits for residents and housing assets.