Social Housing 

 

Environmental Stock Assessment

Through consultation with your asset management team and in depth data analysis of your housing stock ES Consultancy will produce an accurate assessment of the current environmental performance of your housing stock. This will highlight areas in need of improvement and can be combined into a holistic sustainability strategy to ensure your housing stock meets the environmental challenges of the future and ensures the needs of your tenants are met.

 

Our service will enable social housing providers to: 

• Determine the current energy performance of your stock and its potential for improvement
• Determine the wider environmental and sustainable performance of your housing stock in order to develop water efficiency and climate change adaptation strategies
• Group stock elements for targeted cost effective retrofitting measures including specific strategies for the most hard to treat elements of the stock
• Identify individual homes most at risk of fuel poverty and specify immediate remedial measures to address the needs of your most vulnerable tenants
• Ensure you have a step by step approach to improvement which is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-based) and allows annual improvements to be monitored and communicated

Our social housing service is cradle to grave including advice, data analysis, assistance with obtaining funding, installation & project management and training for your staff.

 

Compliance

We offer a complete range of energy and environmental performance compliance services to ensure you are meeting all your statutory obligations.  We have extensive experience in energy and environmental assessments whether achieving the latest energy and environmental standards for new build or for providing energy and environmental assessments of existing buildings.  

• Code for Sustainable Home Assessments
• BREEAM ratings (both in use and new build)
• Domestic and non-domestic EPCs
• SAP assessments
• Part L Building Regulation compliance assessments
• DECs

 

Sustainable Retrofit

Our ethos is to offer cost effective, achievable and replicable solutions. Be it an exemplar eco house or larger scale retrofit program, we provide a complete solution for sustainable low carbon refurbishment of social housing stock.

With over 10 years of experience in this field we provide a holistic service encompassing:

• Initial property assessment
• Design and specification of a retrofit program
• Carbon and fuel poverty cost benefit analysis
• Sourcing of contractors and materials
• On site project management
• Post occupancy evaluation services.

 

Renewable Energy and low carbon technologies

We understand the challenges and pressures faced by housing associations and local authorities in this field.  We provide:

• Energy auditing and low and zero carbon feasibility studies
• Specification and procurement of LZC technologies
• Supporting residents to understand the benefits of LZC technologies and communal heating networks
• Training and support to asset management staff to ensure the LZC technologies are effectively managed over their lifetime

 

Planning Guidance

The regulatory and policy environment for sustainable housing has become a complex and rapidly changing field.  We can assist your organisation in the smooth navigation of this field offering sustainable design and construction advice that will ensure you developments and projects obtain the planning consent they require.

• Energy Audits
• Energy Assessments
• London Plan renewable energy compliance
• Design and specification of low carbon heating/cooling networks
• Daylight assessments