Carbon reduction

Specialists at showing housing providers how to make homes more eco-friendly.

Domestic Retrofit

At Mears, we offer full end-to-end specialist support for social housing providers to develop and deliver your domestic retrofit priorities. We can help on your journey to achieve EPC Band C+, reduce fuel stress for residents, as well as supporting you with related carbon reduction and net zero priorities.

We have successfully supported social housing clients and partners to secure over £83m public funding via the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Waves 1, 2.1 and 2.2 and Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3.

Our successes:

  • Improving over 8,000 homes
  • Installing over 30,000 energy efficiency measures
  • Enhancing the quality of clients housing stock and achieve EPC Band C
  • Improving residents’ quality of life by reducing resident energy bills by an average of c£291 pa
  • Reduce energy consumption by estimated 21,826,764 kWh
  • Reduce client housing stock Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by estimated 4532 tCO2e  

Mears can provide support in

Mears has successfully supported clients and partners to secure over £53m in SHDF funding and are installing over 20,000 energy efficiency measures to more than 6,000 homes.

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Specialist support

  • Experienced retrofit specialists to develop retrofit strategies to achieve EPC Band C+ and related carbon reduction and net zero priorities
  • Aligning domestic retrofit and planned/capital investment priorities to achieve value for money
  • Development of investable propositions to maximise value for money and available public funding
  • Dedicated public funding application drafting service with commercial expertise including experience in previous and current SHDF and Warm Homes Social Housing Fund projects
  • Support before, during and after domestic retrofit projects at no cost where Mears deliver the retrofit works
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Data analysis and stock modelling

  • Sector leading stock data cleansing, analysis and modelling service via IRT DREam to create costed investable domestic retrofit projects
  • Sector leading IRT DREam cloud-based software can cleanse and analyse for your entire housing stock data and create dashboards of investable options for potential retrofit projects aligned to available public funding and client budgets
  • IRT can undertake thermal imaging on your housing stock using handheld, drone and at scale using our innovative MAPPIR  mobile imaging technology 
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PAS2035 services

  • Full PAS2035 service provision through our in-house specialists and our established supply chain including retrofit assessment, retrofit design, retrofit coordination and broader building surveying
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PAS2030 & MCS delivery

  • PAS2030, Trustmark and funding compliant delivery of domestic retrofit projects through our in-house specialists and our established supply chain
  • Experienced in installation of all fabric measures, renewable energy and clean heat
  • Ongoing support with public funding progress reporting and liaison
  • Resident engagement and delivery of excellent customer experience
  • Lodgement of completed works with Trustmark and demonstration of impact