People Powered Retrofit

We are excited to share our last details for this year! This is the second past of the two sets of details exploring internal wall insulation in retrofit scenarios. This latest set of details has been developed in collaboration with People Powered Retrofit, a cooperative one-stop-shop based in Manchester working across the north west to provide independent advice to householders to plan, procure, and deliver domestic retrofit projects to a high standard. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dBGTW3eT 🧱👷🏻♀️ The Detail Library is the largest UK database of fully resolved construction details for architects and designers. All details are fully editable, featuring a variety of construction methods and options. Our membership offers free access to hundreds of construction details in 2D CAD and Revit, and 3D SketchUp. Visit our website to learn more today! #ArchitecturalDesign #UKConstruction #ConstructionDetails

3 x fully-funded #PhD opportunities with the Centre for Sustainable Construction and Retrofit at Nottingham Trent University, please share? Developing a framework for difficult to retrofit buildings: https://lnkd.in/eGRJqxpj | Nottingham Trent University deadline 8th Dec, start Apr 2025, Led by: Dr Orla Williams (UoN), Co-Supervisors: Dr Kate Simpson (NTU) and Prof Richard Bull (NTU), Community Supervisor(s): Phil Berrill (Nottinghamshire County Council), Chris Beattie (Inspire) Investigating construction culture in relation to meeting social and envrionmental goals: https://lnkd.in/eYjTD-kv | Nottingham Trent University, deadline 14th Feb, start Sep 2025, led by Prof Gavin Killip and Dr Ani Raiden Re-imagining energy retrofit and home adaptation for future climate: https://lnkd.in/e4pyaQdc | Nottingham Trent University, deadline 14th Feb, start Sep 2025, led by Dr Kate Simpson with Dr Penelope Siebert and Prof Rowena Hill We are a friendly team aiming to create real world impact and meaningful collaborations with these. Please get in touch with Qs :)

Thank you to the #FTTMutuals team, especially Micha P. for organising a really interesting day yesterday. I was grateful to share a stage with Ciara Davies, Clare Jenkinson, Maria Dutton, and our chair Sophie Mason to talk about how mutual finance organisations are empowering communities for a sustainable future. It was a really interesting discussion and I learned a lot from my fellow panellists! 💡 While not a finance mutual, People Powered Retrofit are in fact a mutual organisation (we're a community benefit society)! Sustainability is at the core of what mutual organisations do; this term can encompass environmental action, climate justice, and carbon emission reduction but also sustainable business practices and building resilience in our communities. This theme came through strongly from all the speakers, and Clare talked about how it's a common thread through all of Foresters' work (from advice, to investment, to their office buildings!). 💡 Collaboration between mutuals was highlighted as vitally important for the sustainability of the sector and to overcome challenges that individual mutuals have with education, capacity, and resourcing for new products. Ciara talked about how, in Greater Manchester, The SoundPound Group are showing how credit unions can work together and with civic bodies to meet their members needs in new ways. Maria shared some examples from Ireland of best practices. Building these links with other mutuals and learning from each other was another key theme of the panel. 💡 Off the shelf solutions are going to be important for sustainable practices to scale: individual mutuals don’t have the budget to develop everything from scratch. We're working with Association of British Credit Unions on our Green Home Improvement Loan pilot to develop training materials and marketing assets so that more and more credit unions can share resources and achieve effective green home lending. Thanks again to everyone involved with organising the #FTTMutuals sessions!