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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.

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

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal Net Zero Innovation and Delivery Programme

    The six councils in the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal - Fife, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders, and West Lothian - all need to deliver net zero homes by 2045 at the lates...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    Addresses skills challenges and opportunities related to net zero in housing stock.

  • 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

    Why might this be relevant?

    Provides a sustainable model for creating net-zero homes and retrofitting existing homes.

  • STREAM 2: The SWITCH to Net Zero Buildings

    The SWITCH to Net Zero Buildings supports Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council's (NPTCBC) strategy to adopt the innovative design concept of 'buildings as power stations' developed at Swansea University (SU) for both...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on the SWITCH to Net Zero Buildings, addressing skills challenges and opportunities related to net zero in the context of building design and energy systems.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Centre for Net Zero High Density Buildings (CeNZ-HighDB)

    High density building areas within cities and towns have the greatest challenges in meeting net zero targets and are ‘keystones’ of the future UK green economy. Diverse complexities of building archetypes, multi-use, his...

    Funded by: NERC

  • 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

  • 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

  • Retrofit Net-Zero Buildings - Regulatory Science and Data Network for Unlocking adoption of Innovation (RetroNetZero)

    The project will develop a network for regulatory science in the context of retrofitting existing buildings to meet government net-zero targets. Our **Phase 1** 'discovery' project will establish a virtual network with ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK