What are the skills challenges and opportunities related to net zero, and how do they differ by geography?

Background

Focusing on decarbonising buildings, to consolidate evidence around the potential effects of net zero on the housing stock, housing supply and the housing market.

Next steps

The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

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  • Build-up for Net Zero (BUNZ)

    The **BUNZ (Build-Up Net-Zero)** concept creates a new sustainable model for creating desirable net-zero performance-guaranteed new homes, whilst retrofitting existing homes to net zero. Energiesprong UK (ESUK) was set u...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: ENERGIESPRONG UK LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The BUNZ project addresses the challenges and opportunities related to net zero by creating sustainable net-zero homes and retrofitting existing homes to net zero. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.

  • Building Net Zero, Affordable Homes

    PEC Homes wants to deliver affordable, high quality, well designed, cooperative and zero carbon housing projects that : * are flagships for innovation; * are community owned, warm, affordable, desirable zero carbon homes...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: PEC HOMES LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The PEC Homes project aims to deliver affordable, high-quality, zero carbon housing projects using the Energiesprong approach. While it focuses on new build projects, it partially addresses the skills challenges and opportunities related to net zero. The authors have the necessary expertise to competently answer the question.

  • Future Homes

    The Future Homes Project (FHP) is an industry-academic partnership for the delivery of new and existing net zero homes - a significant challenge for the UK and globally. Regulatory change is driving developers and asset ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project is relevant as it focuses on net zero solutions for the housing sector, but it does not address the skills challenges and opportunities related to net zero or how they differ by geography.

  • Net Zero Transition Lambeth

    The project will undertake a feasibility study in the London borough of Lambeth, in partnership with key stakeholders, to accelerate the transition to net zero by testing innovative approaches to unlocking non-technical ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

  • The Active Building Centre Research Programme (ABC RP)

    The ABC is one of the two hubs funded through the Transforming Construction (TC) Industrial Challenge. ABC aims to revolutionise the way the UK designs, manufactures, constructs and operates buildings. The TC challeng...

    Funded by: ISCF

    Lead research organisation: Swansea University

  • Dynamic, Digitised Decarbonisation investment and engineering roadmaps for UPgrading building portfolios - (3D-UP)

    3D-UP (Dynamic, Digitised Decarbonisation investment and engineering roadmaps for UPgrading building portfolios) will develop a digital twinning infrastructure and methodology for the development of decarbonisation pathw...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

  • Building Better: the next frontier for sustainable, high quality, net zero homes

    Building Better, backed by the National Housing Federation, is an alliance of 31 housing associations and local authorities working together to increase the use of modern methods of construction (MMC) in the social housi...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: BUILDING BETTER

  • Language Interface for Net Zero Innovation (LINZI)

    Language Interface for Net Zero Innovation (LINZI) aims to revolutionise how domestic and commercial building owners plan for the NetZero transition of their buildings. Currently, these transitions require a comprehensi...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: NQUIRINGMINDS LIMITED

  • Enabling cloud-based net zero options assessment for non-domestic buildings

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: HYDROCK CONSULTANTS LIMITED

  • Digital?Retrofit Enabler?at?Meadows?Estate (DREaMEs)

    There is an urgent unmet need in the UK social housing sector for more effective, affordable digital methodologies for delivering energy efficiency retrofit programmes, at a faster pace and greater scale than currently p...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: ENERGY SYSTEMS CATAPULT LIMITED

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