FEW WORDS ABOUT US
Welcome to Ecrofit
Improving Building Energy Performance and Holistic Retrofit
Ecrofit is an initiative to provide technical assistance and training for businesses providing construction, installation and building services linked to energy efficiency; and in particular addressing property energy professionals and retrofit professionals.
It is delivered by Birmingham City University together with ABBE – the Awarding Body for the Built Environment and runs until 30/06/2023.
We are developing a new software (iRet Solution) to assist property energy professionals and retrofit professionals. The iRet solution offers an easy to use, highly visual interface to create fast and accurate energy assessments. It applies multi-objective optimisation techniques to compare multiple options for holistic retrofit measures and can compare and contrast variations of product specifications.
WHO WE ARE
Ecrofit is an initiative provided by Birmingham City University together with ABBE – the Awarding Body for the Built Environment. Ecrofit is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
We offer access to a group of leading experts in built environment, construction, data analytics and artificial intelligence to provide continuous professional development and support innovation in business.
WHAT WE OFFER
Ecrofit is a fully funded project to support regional business. All our services are free of charge but businesses need to apply. We offer:
- Continuous professional development for people involved in domestic energy assessments and retrofits
- Expert advice and consultancy for tailored research collaborations
- Networking and Events
- Access to the new iRet solution – a building simulation software
WHO IS IT FOR
Small and medium sized enterprises in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership geography can access Ecrofit services free of charge.
Ecrofit supports business whose products or services make houses more energy efficient, for example companies providing designs, assessing energy efficiency, supplying HVAC installations or retrofit services. Any business in the wider construction and energy supply chains may benefit.
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Improving the energy performance of homes
Is your business aiming to improve the energy performance of homes?
With an estimated £27m existing homes UK-wide needing interventions to reduce their carbon footprint by 2050, home owners and industry are looking for innovative and cost-effective approaches to change these buildings. In addition, Government aims to see 300,000 new homes built per annum from the mid 2020s, which need to be delivered to the Future Homes Standard from 2025 and achieve a 75%-80% reduction of carbon emissions compared to the current standard.
If your business is grappling with questions how best to adapt and compete in this market, the Ecrofit offers could be for you.
Note: All services offered by the Ecrofit project are free of charge to business. This is possible thanks to funding from the European Regional Development Fund and Birmingham City University. To participate, your business needs to fulfils three criteria: be a small or medium sized enterprise (link to SME definition), have received less than 200k Euro in state aid over the last three years and be based in the GBSLEP geography. Please contact us if you think you fall outside of these criteria to explore if you can still benefit enquiry form
