18.09.2023
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Jon Abbott is promoted to Director and leads our Retrofit team. Jon is an asset to Keegans, having identified the need for a Retrofit service offering within Keegans three years ago. With the support of Keegans management, he has built the team up to 29 strong and has successfully led the delivery of retrofit assessments and coordination on over 5,000 homes UK wide.
Supporting Jon and helping guide our Retrofit team are Ashley Simms, promoted to Associate Director, and justyn tiptaft to Associate. They both joined Keegans over two years ago and as TrustMark Registered Retrofit Coordinators, they have been instrumental in supporting Keegans to develop our retrofit team and have delivered many successful retrofit projects with Hull City Council, Your Homes Newcastle, Milton Keynes City Council, Livin Housing, Mears Group PLC, West Midlands Combined Authority, Basildon Borough Council, Crawley Borough Council and Paradigm Housing Group to name just a few.
Join us in congratulating Jon, Ashley and Justyn on their new roles. You are leading the way for our Retrofit team and making a real difference in supporting the public housing sector to address climate change and residents' thermal comfort in their homes.
What does Retrofit mean?
The UK Government has identified the retrofit of buildings as a key lever in their low carbon strategy to achieve 68% carbon reduction by 2030. All affordable homes will be required to achieve a minimum EPC of C by 2030. All ECO funded refurbishment projects are required to achieve full compliance with PAS 2035:2019 from July 2021 with a 20% funding uplift for projects that comply before the deadline.
PAS 2035:2019 (Specification for the Energy Retrofit of Domestic Buildings) is revolutionising the refurbishment of buildings. Over the last 30 years energy efficiency programmes have focussed on single measures (i.e.: cavity wall insulation or window replacement, etc.) but all future programmes now require a holistic solution designed to suit the specific building type.
To comply with PAS 2035, a qualified Retrofit Coordinator must be employed to provide a 'Whole House Retrofit' solution.
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