Transforming homes, transforming lives: The role of property logbooks in scaling retrofit

Rachael Owens
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Rachael Owens: National Retrofit Hub, UK

Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal & Valuation, 2024, vol. 13, issue 2, 185-193

Abstract: The pace of good quality retrofit must be urgently scaled up across the UK, in order to tackle fuel poverty, improve the health and comfort of our homes, increase energy security and build climate resilience. Currently, however, incomplete information is used when designing retrofit policies and plans. There are barriers to the scale-up of good quality retrofit including citizen engagement, finance, supply chain uncertainty, a lack of trust and low uptake of quality assurance frameworks. This paper discusses the potential of enhanced, interoperable and democratised building, local and systems data to unlock many of these barriers. It will explore how the adoption of property logbooks across the UK can enable the aggregation of projects and drive access to finance. A retrofit plan for every home has the potential to engage and empower citizens and small to medium enterprise (SME) builders to act locally. This paper describes how the right packages of data can inform better decisions, what work has already been done to date, and how you can get involved in creating transformational change.

Keywords: retrofit; data; logbook; energy efficiency; health; well-being; fuel poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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