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.
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
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
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
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