Video: New Ways to Heat Your Home
Before a low carbon heating system is installed, it’s important that a fabric first approach is applied.
Video: The Benefits of a Well Insulated Home
A well insulated home isn’t just cheaper to heat, it will also improve the health and well-being on its residents.
Video: What is Retrofit?
Did you know that UK homes are some of the most inefficient in Europe? Of the 27 million homes in the UK the majority of them require significant energy efficiency improvements.
Success in Stoke
“This project has seen the introduction of the PAS2035 standard. This, to the uninitiated, can be a daunting prospect. With the utilisation of VOR’s expertise we have experienced a highly professional, knowledgeable yet straightforward approach to what could have been a very disorientating process..” Lee Wood, SHDF Project Manager, Unitas
Thermal Bypass: What is it and why does it matter?
Pete Marsh, VOR’s Technical Consultant explains Thermal Bypass and why it matters
Does TrustMark’s Updated Quality Assurance Guidance go far enough?
TrustMark have this week issued their updated Quality Assurance Guidance for PAS 2035 public funded retrofit schemes setting, but does this guidance go far enough to protect residents, buildings and ensure that public money is being spent well?
VOR joins the Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB)
VOR is delighted to announce that we are now members of the Association for Environment … Read more
What is PAS 2038?
The Climate Change Act, as amended in 2019, commits the UK to ‘net zero’ by 2050. The built environment accounts for roughly 40% of UK greenhouse gas emissions, with around 20% of this coming from non-domestic buildings, according to the Climate Change Committee.
What is PAS 2035?
PAS2035 is a framework for the design and delivery of energy retrofit measures to existing buildings in the UK. The UK Government has highlighted the retrofit of buildings as an integral part of their strategy to achieve 68% carbon reduction by 2030.
Archetype analysis, your key to Wave 2 SHDF funding?
In our second look at securing funding for Wave 2 of SHDF, VOR’s Retrofit Technical Designer StJohn Townsend discusses archetype analysis and how this can help social housing providers with their bids.
