FLASHprogrammeand beyond

Terry McGivern

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• Independent charity led by a world class board representing UK industry, academia and the public sector

• Set up to accelerate and facilitate delivery of sustainable communities and cities

• Works with many partners to develop and demonstrate innovative, practical solutions to creating greener and more prosperous places to work and live

• Shares the knowledge/learning widely to speed up best practice, encourage investment, and actively support social and economic development

Institute for Sustainability

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• Capture the learning from applied/practical research and demonstration

• Utilise “prior knowledge” – don’t reinvent the wheel

• Convert into practical, accessible information

• Independent and impartial ; well informed/ best practice

• Disseminate and share widely to many audiences for both learning and social/economic/environmental improvement

• Open access / inclusive

Learning and Dissemination

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Multiple Audiences /Partners

• SME’s (Professions, Trades, Suppliers, Distributors)

• Major contractors and consultants

• Clients – public and private

• Utilities - Energy, water & waste

• Local & central government

• Academia & research

• Trade & Professional Bodies

• Third Sector / Community

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Three key programmes

• Resource Efficient Buildings - FLASH - FLASH+ - ICAD - RE: Start Local - Climate Market Accelerator (CMA)

• Sustainable Infrastructure

• Sustainable Transport

Institute for Sustainability

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Integrated into holistic strategies/planning for delivering low carbon /sustainable communities and cities

• Total Community Retrofit

• Low Carbon London

• Smart Cities

• Neighbourhood Demo

• Future Cities

Integrated Systems

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Logical / progressive journey for SMEs

• FLASH – low carbon building / retrofit , micro generation

and resource efficiency –developing the solutions and

meeting the challenges

• FLASH+ - building performance evaluation. Proving

what works and what doesnt

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Logical / progressive journey for SMEs

• Carbon Market Accelerator - facilitating and accelerating

the journey to market of innovative products and technologies

• RE Start Local - improving local procurement processes

and local supply chains for onshore/building renewables

• Total Community Retrofit – bringing it all together in

holistic, integrated solutions

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Low Carbon : Low Energy

Sustainable Built Environment

• 80% carbon reduction target by 2050

• Over 40% of CO2 emissions are from buildings –almost 40% from

existing buildings (25% from Housing)

• Over 80% of current buildings will still be in use by 2050

• Reduce energy consumption in existing building stock and increase

use of renewable fuels

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o 20 million + homes in 40 years

o 4 million social; 16 million private

o 600,000 homes a year for at least 30 years

o £500 billion market – huge opportunity

Eco-retrofit - Housing

Challenge and Opportunity

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UK Renewable Energy Roadmap

• the challenge is to bring costs down and increase usage

• starting from a low level, UK aims to deliver 15% of energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020

• 8 technologies capable of delivering more than 90% of the renewable energy we need for 2020

•Feed in Tariff / Renewable Heat Incentive ; Green Deal & ECO

•Build local capacity and supply chains

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Incentives/Finance - driving demand

• Feed in Tariffs (FiT) – 2010 /11

• CERT, CESP, ERDF, Decent Homes, etc. ongoing

• Public/Private sector investment – energy efficiency & renewables

• Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) – 2012 and 2013

• Green Deal (2012), ECO (2013)

• Social and Private Housing programmes – community level schemes

• Social housing is leading the way - Birmingham

- Manchester

- Haringey/North London

- UK wide

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Do feed-in tariffs work?

Feed-in tariffs (FITs) now used in over 60 countries/states to incentivise uptake of small-scale renewables

Germany: annual installed capacity of PV grew by factor of 70 over 7 years

In 2009 Germany installed 6GW of PV (equivalent of 3 million installations on homes)

Influence of FITs on annual PV installations in Germany (MWp) – source EPIA

Graph - Supporting Solar Photovoltaic Electricity - an argument for FITs (EPIA)

GRANTS

Tariffs

Source: Renewable Energy Association

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Through our ‘Green Deal’, we will encourage home energy efficiency

improvements paid for by savings from energy bills. We will also take measures

to improve energy efficiency in businesses and public sector buildings.

The Coalition: our programme for government (May 2010)

Green Deal

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FLASHLow Carbon Building Retrofit

• The £10 million FLASH (Facilitation, Learning and Sharing) programme, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), aims to support a step change in the built environment industry by engaging London based SMEs with the commercial potential of low carbon building/retrofit, renewable energy generation and resource efficiency

•Through the Institute’s strategic partnership with the Technology Strategy Board businesses can access learning from the UK’s leading retrofit demonstrator projects

• FLASH also helps built environment businesses understand how the low carbon agenda can lead to new business and economic advantage . This includes improving their own operations to help make them more competitive, as well as contributing to carbon reduction targets

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FLASHLow Carbon Building Retrofit

Who’s involved?

• Industry networks – RIBA, RICS, CE, FMB, B&ES /HVCA, CIPHE, ECA,

NEF/SEA, EST , EEPB, CIOB, NHIC, CPA, UKGBC, BBP

• Academic partners – UCL, Imperial, LSBU, Greenwich, UEL

• Technology Strategy Board – Retrofit for the Future

• Client collaboration – social landlords; now commercial/ industrial

• Retrofit Guides – “Retrofit Network/Community”

• “Getting Ready to Retrofit” events – Green Sky Thinking week

• Local Communities – Bromley-by-Bow, Ealing, Muswell Hill, Lambeth,

etc

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FLASHLow Carbon Building Retrofit

Outputs

•26 Low Carbon social housing demonstrators

• Retrofit Guides

• UCL /TSB – summary of demonstrator findings

• 1200 SMEs business and knowledge base support (University)

• 15 Tier 1 Contractor supply chain 12 hour workshops on

BIM/Soft Landings, plus resource efficiency outcomes

• major programme of site visits, workshops, conferences

• Local Procurement “Toolkit”

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1200 SME’s @ 12 Hours each

RIBA RICS FMB

MME

Parameters

KIT

Procurement

Green Process

Retrofit

ConservationAreas.

Comms

Regulations

CE CIPHEFMB

Intro to FiTs

Tech

Procurement

Comm

Regulations

Finance

Design Building Fabric / Energy Efficiency

Other/genericBuilding Services

Design/Tech

Cost

Project Mangt

Social / Behaviour

SupplyChain

Finance

NFRC & OTHERS

RFTF

• Approx 150 SME’s

•12hr each

• Per Network

Finance

Example:- Timings

[1]

Example:- No of

modules [2]

BSK/NEF BSK/ECA

electricalplumbing

Renewables

F L A S H - N e t w o r k M a n a g e r s

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Retrofit Guides & Case StudiesRetrofit for the

Future

Knowledge Hub

Case Studies

exhibitions

conferences

Seminars/ workshops

Site visits

online portal

working groups

reports & publications

PR/ editorial

collaborativeprojects

Other Projects

Technical/ Business Opportunity Guides

Editorial Team

Authors

Prior knowledge

Conversion for Dissemination

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Guide 2 by Russell SmithHow dwellings are surveyed and assessed for retrofitting

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Engaging people in the retrofit process Tuesday 20 September at 9.00am - 1.00pm

Energy Saving TrustAndy Deacon, Head of Local Delivery, EST - Overview and intro

Peter Rickaby, Rickaby Thompson Associates- FLASH Retrofit Guides - An introduction:

Fran Bradshaw, Anne Thorne Architects - Retrofit for the Future case study

Linn Rafferty, JTec and Seb Junemann, Peabody- Living in a Low Carbon Home

Liz Warren, SE2 - User/occupier motivations - communicating the "green" message

Matt Bush, MHP- Resident/community engagement – A practical community example

Preparing for the retrofit challenge: gearing up to exploit the opportunities Tuesday 20 September, 6pm-9pm

RIBAPeter Rickaby, Rickaby Thompson Associates- Introduction to Retrofit Guides :

Andrew Mellor, PRP Architects - Creating a Low Carbon Retrofit Plan:

Luke Smith, Fusion 21 - Finance and Procurement for Low Carbon Retrofit

Tessa Barraclough, Environmental Sustainability Officer Peabody - Peabody PV programme

Learning from practical experience: translating into future retrofit actionThursday 22 September, 2pm-5pm

Camden Town Hall

Cllr Sean Birch- Camden Council retrofit planning - beyond Retrofit for the Future

John Doggart, SEA - FLASH Retrofit Guides - An Introduction:

Daniel White, Sustainability Manager, Camden Housing; R4F case study - Bertram Street:

Richard Hurford, Head of Sustainable Refurbishment, United House

Russell Smith, Parity Projects - Home assessment/survey for Low Carbon Retrofit

Examples from “Getting ready to retrofit”

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TSB Phase 2 - London Social Housing Demonstration Projects – 80% CO2 reduction

SL12 (628L) Enfield HomesSL02 (616J) PeabodySL15 (524Z) Green StructuresSL19 (358T) Metropolitan

SL16 (619U) Green StructuresSL09 (521E) BereSL07 (275R) Axis EuropeSL17 (137W) LB GreenwichSL26 (107M) Hyde

SL08 (522P) Bere

SL04 (593S) City West HomesSL06 (152J) Green Tomato /Octavia HousingSL01 (234Y) PeabodySL18 (332B) Prewitt BizleySL10 (112S) BioRegional SL03 (606E) CEN Services

SL11 (568E) BreyerSL13 (660T) GiffordSL22 (569T) BreyerSL05 (536U) Ealing HomesSL14 (217T) Green Structures SL21 (424P) Breyer

SL24 (347W) East ThamesSL23 (423M) East ThamesSL25 (125g) East Thames

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Retrofit for the Future projects in London

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FLASH PLUSB u i l d i n g P e r f o r m a n c e E v a l u a ti o n

• measure and evaluate the energy performance of selected eco-

exemplar buildings or schemes (housing & non-housing) across the SE

• combined with feedback from the parties involved on the projects

including clients, developers, architects/consultants, occupiers,

contractors, residents and local communities

• performance results analysed, verified and reviewed, then shared with

FLASH+ members.

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FLASH PLUSB u i l d i n g P e r f o r m a n c e E v a l u a ti o n

• Industry networks – RIBA, RICS, SECBE, B&ES, CIBSE, BSRIA, FMB

• Academic partners – Reading Uni, Oxford Brookes, Southampton, Brighton

• Technology Strategy Board – Retrofit for the Future / BPE

• Client collaboration – social landlords ; commercial/ industrial

• TSB – BPE Evaluators Community

• Retrofit Guides – “Retrofit Network/Community”

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FLASH PLUSB u i l d i n g P e r f o r m a n c e E v a l u a ti o n

Outputs

• BPE Demonstration Project – Queenborough & Rushenden

• Technology Strategy Board – Building Performance Evaluation &

Retrofit for the Future demonstration projects (Oxford Brookes)

• BPE guides – including practical “what to do” and “key theme” guides

• Tier 1 Contractor supply chain 12 hour workshops on BIM/Soft

Landings, plus RE outcomes (Reading Uni. / Oxford Brookes )

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BPE Guides & Case Studies

Knowledge Hub

Case Studies

exhibitions

conferences

Seminars/ workshops

Site visits

online portal

working groups

BPE reports & guides

PR/ editorial

collaborativeprojects

Other BPE Projects

Subject and Role-Oriented Technical Guides

Editorial Process

Prior knowledge

Conversion for Dissemination

Q&RTSB BPE Projects

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R E : S t a r t L o c a l

• current procurement processes (particularly public sector) mitigate against

SMEs

•SMEs tend to avoid public procurement because of perceived and actual

difficulties

•New low carbon/renewable energy programmes favour major providers and

Green Deal / ECO likely to reinforce

•Wide body of goodwill (and self interest) towards more local /SME

procurement and supply... but it takes concerted effort to achieve

•Need for better prepared / better organised local suppliers and supply

chains

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R E : S t a r t L o c a l

Whats it about ?

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R E : S t a r t L o c a l

• Clustering of large scale procurers (Councils, HA’s, private Corporates, etc)

to create local investment/supply opportunities for SMEs

•Grouping of SMEs into cooperatives, local supply clusters etc to bid in for

work and large volume supply

•Creation of contractual/commercial frameworks that provide level playing

field for SMEs – Social Value Act 2012, Green Deal, RHI, etc

•Focusing on the renewable technologies and hybrids that have maximum

opportunity for building scale in local regions – biomass, solar PV/solar

thermal, heat pumps etc

•Maximising “pre competition” engagement between procurers and SME

supply chains

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C l i m a t e M a r k e t A c c e l e r a t o r

• A competition was run as part of the Climate Market Accelerator (CMA) project, which aims to speed up the time it takes for climate change adaptation and mitigation innovations to reach the market

• Market ready and close to market solutions for real world challenges identified by Sainsbury’s. 4 competition winners will demonstrate their innovation at a Sainsbury’s supermarket with the potential to roll out across stores in the UK

• Sustainable Innovations Forums are being set up for property owners, investors and managers in the following areas: commercial/municipal, residential and retail. This competition was the first activity undertaken by the Retail Sustainable Innovations Forum, led by Sainsbury’s

- Sainsburys, Tesco. Waitrose, Marks & Spencer etc

- Land Securities, Hammerson, Grosvenor, Legal & General, Canary Wharf Group etc

- G15 – top 15 major Social Landlords in London/SE ; plus GLA and London Councils

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C l i m a t e M a r k e t A c c e l e r a t o r

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Competition challenge

Sainsbury’s identified two areas where they are still looking for optimal solutions; lighting and water use.

Lighting Lighting accounts for between approximately 14% and 20% of energy use in stores. While investments have been made in new, more efficient products and careful design, there is potential to reduce energy consumption further. Relatively small efficiency savings are important – just a few per cent increase in efficiency could result in significant energy savings when applied to more than 900 stores. Water Sainsbury’s has already reduced its water consumption by one-third to three million m3 per annum and is looking for ways to reduce this further. Rainwater harvesting is already employed, with large roof areas providing more grey water than can be used within stores, where there is still a substantial requirement for clean water, including for cleaning and hot food production areas. CMA

FLASH programmeand beyond

Terry McGivern