RISING TO THE REFURB CHALLENGE


Reducing the UK’s carbon emissions to meet the government’s 2050 target will require enormous effort, including tackling the energy effi ciency of 28m existing buildings over the next 40 years. This year’s CIBSE national conference, entitled ‘One building a minute – the great refurbishment challenge’, threw up many solutions and unresolved issues ahead. Bob Cervi and Carina Bailey report


Make feedback a contract requirement


CIBSE president Rob Manning told delegates what he believed are the challenges currently facing an industry that is tasked with refurbishing some 25m homes, to meet the government’s legally binding carbon reduction target of 80% by 2050.


Manning said a shortage of time, an


absence of an established refurbishment industry, a shortage of skills and know-how, a lack of political will and incentives, and the sheer scale of integration needed to deliver retrofi tting were the main issues stopping the industry from getting on with the job. ‘What we do now is work to a


linear process; it isn’t joined up as the


‘ What we do now is work to a linear process; it isn’t joined up as the government would like to see it joined up, as I would like to see it joined up’ Rob Manning


government would like to see it joined up, as I would like to see it joined up. ‘I think energy effi cient refurbishment


also needs better integration to reduce energy demand.’ But there is another, even more important factor that needs to be introduced as a matter of urgency, according to Manning. ‘Above all, we really do need to make measurement performance and feedback a contract requirement; it’s not good enough just to have practical completion.’


20 CIBSE Journal May 2011


Rob Manning


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