About FutureFit

FutureFit is a project working with over 200 Affinity Sutton homes and residents delivering combinations of low carbon refurbishment works and energy lifestyle advice.

The UK is legally required to reduce its total carbon emissions by 80% by 2050, with an interim target of 34% by 2020.

The aim of FutureFit is to prepare the business and our partners for meeting the challenge of greening the wider social housing stock.

 

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More than a quarter of the UK’s carbon emissions come from our homes. The vast majority of homes that will be standing in 2050 have already been built, and this means retrofitting (low carbon refurbishment) will be needed on a large scale.

FutureFit is not a ‘one-off’ or show home project, and it doesnot focus on individual technologies or achieving the highest carbon reduction possible regardless of cost. Instead, it drills down into the practicalities of delivering low carbon retrofit to the social housing stock on a wide scale, looking at the obstacles and identifying solutions. 

The project has used three budgets to produce three different packages of works that were applied across 102 homes - low (£6,500), medium (£10,000) and high (£25,000). This means that after a year's monitoring period we will be able to identify what energy savings can actually be achieved for the investment. In addition to these works, a further group of homes is engaged in FutureFit Living, the second part of FutureFit which is delivering a year-long programme of energy lifestyle advice. So at the end of the project we will be able to find out the impact of different combinations of retrofit works and lifestyle advice.

The aim is to develop our knowledge and experience of successfully delivering retrofit and energry lifestyle advice, and prepare the whole business for the challenge that faces us.