CBHAs have been involved in retrofit activities for many years to improve the energy efficiency and standards in their homes, for the benefit of their tenants.
They have continued these improvements through EESSH and EESSH2 and are now considering the proposed new Social Housing Net Zero Standards. The big question is – how net zero can be achieved via a just transition for tenants?
The Forum is developing information for members on the issue, including a number of case studies – read more about each below:
Argyll Community Housing Association’s Warm Homes Fund Project
Dalmuir Park Housing Association’s stonework repairs and energy efficiency improvements to pre-1919 tenements
Shettleston Housing Association’s Old Shettleston Road Retrofit Feasibility Project
If you would like more information on any of the case studies, please contact colleen.rowan@gwsf.org.uk.
Summer regeneration conference
The Forum’s 2024 summer regeneration conference focused on a just transition to net zero and how CBHAS and their communities can get there. A number of retrofit and other projects were discussed at the conference cafe sessions, which included:
- Affordable Warmth and Net Zero Investment Plan, Partnership Project – Barrhead, Maryhill, Queens Cross & Paisley HAs, with Scott Stewart, Director of Assets and Communities, Barrhead HA, Adam Devine, Property Investment Manager, Maryhill HA & Barbara Lantshner, Associate Director/Building Performance Specialist, John Gilbert Architects
- Old Shettleston Road – tenement retrofit feasibility study – Shettleston HA, with Colette McKenna, Director of Property Services
- Insulating Athol Steel properties: lessons learned – Shire HA, with Julie Allison, Director of Housing & Mark Scott, Asset Manager
- West of Scotland’s retrofit journey – West of Scotland HA, with Scott Cunningham, Asset Manager
- West Whitlawburn’s District Heating Network – West Whitlawburn Housing Co-op, with Grant Clayton, Deputy Director