{"id":20262,"date":"2018-09-25T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20262"},"modified":"2018-09-25T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:20:35","slug":"stba-3-year-pilot-for-whole-house-retrofit-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20262","title":{"rendered":"STBA: 3 year pilot for \u2018Whole House Retrofit Toolkit\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/STBA_website250918.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20263\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/STBA_website250918.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a>The STBA is delighted to announce a 3-year project to test out the\u00a0Whole House approach to retrofit,\u00a0pioneered by the STBA and endorsed by\u00a0Each Home Counts, which is being carried out under the BEIS\u00a0Building Thermal Efficiency Innovation\u00a0Fund.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>STBA writes:<\/p>\n<p>Based on 30-40 properties owned by social housing provider\u00a0Melin Homes in South Wales, we will commence with detailed surveys of each house &#8211; including context and condition &#8211; before generating a bespoke programme of measures with detailed designs.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting packages of measures will address ventilation, health and heritage in addition to tackling thermal bridging and other energy reduction challenges. The properties will be monitored for 12 months post retrofit, to check that the measures are working as intended and to check that adequate indoor air quality is maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Surveyor training will be developed alongside survey templates and training for installers.\u00a0\u00a0Following further testing with the National Trust and\u00a0RetrofitWorks, the process &amp; supporting methodology will be released as a toolkit for industry use across the UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stbauk.org\/news-1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The STBA is delighted to announce a 3-year project to test out the\u00a0Whole House approach to retrofit,\u00a0pioneered by the STBA and endorsed by\u00a0Each Home Counts, which is being carried out under the BEIS\u00a0Building Thermal Efficiency Innovation\u00a0Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20264,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/revisions\/20264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}