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Jonathan Platt, Existing Buildings Lead at AES Sustainability, explores the challenges  for creating safer homes, reduced energy bills, improved asset value and measurable progress toward net zero...


Local authorities and housing associations across the UK are under unprecedented pressure to upgrade their residential estates. Net zero commitments, rising household energy costs, increasing regulatory scrutiny and heightened awareness around resident health and wellbeing are converging to  Added to this, ageing housing stock - much of it solid wall, poorly insulated


and located within conservation areas - presents a complex technical and operational challenge. Government funding has provided


some momentum. The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3 allocated £1.29bn in the 2024 Autumn Budget, with a clear aim of upgrading social housing stock to at least EPC Band C. As funded projects begin to


mobilise, attention has turned to PAS 2035, the national standard governing   PAS 2035 was developed in response


to widespread failures in earlier  designed and improperly installed measures led to performance gaps, resident dissatisfaction and unintended consequences such as damp and mould.


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