The National Retrofit Hub (the Hub) is a nonprofit organisation whose purpose is to enable the delivery of housing retrofit at scale. Retrofitting homes is vital for the UK to achieve its energy security, fuel poverty, and climate change goals.

The Hub was established at the start of 2023 and officially launched on 1st March 2023 at the Building Centre in London to enable the delivery of the National Retrofit Strategy through industry wide collaboration, empowerment, and facilitation:

The Hub has established six working groups to support the delivery of retrofit.

• Working group 1: Warm, healthy, net zero homes.
• Working group 2: Supply chain, products & solutions.
• Working group 3: Workforce growth and skills development.
• Working group 4: Finance.
• Working group 5: Delivery approaches.
• Working group 6: Driving uptake.

As of January 2024, these groups have transitioned from groundwork to tangible results, leveraging research, gap analyses, and prioritisation efforts. The fruits of their labour are now emerging, with the launch of essential resources such as the Retrofit Qualifications & Training Map, Regional Retrofit Skills Taskforce Checklist, Digital Buildings Logbooks Explainer & Data Matrix, and recommendations from the industry on EPC reform. View latest resources.

The Hub is also working on plans for a Knowledge Centre, a place where all relevant, high quality and trusted sources of information will be accessible. This centre will also help us identify gaps in information and help to fill these gaps. We are actively collaborating with key industry stakeholders to help scope this work.

The National Retrofit Hub is currently hosted by the Sustainable Development Foundation with plans to become registered in its own right in 2024/2025. The establishment phase (two years) is part-funded by sponsorship from Innovate UK, the UK’s national innovation agency. They also engage with partners and sponsors who provide contributions to support their activities and delivery of new resources.

In 2021, the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) published the National Retrofit Strategy, a twenty-year blueprint for how the construction industry can work with Government to retrofit the UK’s 28 million existing homes. The Hub used this strategy to help identify their priorities given that the strategy called for the urgent need for greater collaboration across the sector and coordinated leadership to achieve this goal.