energy research projects
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These are some of the research projects we've delivered over the last two years. Changeworks has a specialism in hard-to-treat buildings, but our research extends much further than that, also covering community impact and engagement, planning, and retrofitting buildings. |
We are currently researching the benefits of Feed In Tariffs for social landlords on behalf of the Joesph Rowntree Foundation. Find out more here.
Retrofit for the future
Changeworks participated in the Government’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB), Retrofit For the Future competition focused on low-rise housing. This competition focused on delivering an 80% carbon saving against a 1990 baseline figure. Secondly, the project hoped to develop solutions that could be rapidly scaled up and rolled out, factors critical to developing area-based schemes. Working with the City of Edinburgh Council, Changeworks secured a £20,000 feasibility grant to model and develop a design solution for a timber framed 1940s council house.
Community Powerdown
The report provides the results and analysis of a survey of Powerdown Officers carried out in Autumn 2010. The survey was intended to capture the issues and challenges facing householders in the Powerdown areas, in terms of hard-to-treat housing and renewable energy generation. This report profiles the key characteristics of the communities and homes in the Powerdown areas surveyed, and explores renewable energy generation in terms of attitudes, options, limitations and opportunities.
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Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment: Best Practice for Scottish Planners
Research for Energy Saving Trust by Changeworks.
This support pack for public sector planners will help them to address sustainable energy issues within the domestic sector. It aims to provide inspiration through recommendations, case studies and signposting to other useful sources of information.
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Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment - Best Practice for Scottish Planners |
Street by Street, House by House: Area based retrofit for low carbon homes - the best approaches for Scotland
This report critiqued area based energy efficiency schemes for WWF Scotland focusing on best practice and the opportunities to improve policies. The report includes ten contemporary case studies to illustrate a range of approaches to the development of area based schemes in Scotland.
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Street by Street Report |
Contact us
General consultancy enquiries: Catherine Fong
Specific project enquiries: Energy Futures Team
T: 0131 555 4010
