Sustainable Housing Action Programme SHAP 4

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Sustainable Housing Action Programme SHAP 4
Alan Yates, Director of Regeneration
Accord Housing Chair of SHAP
Summerfield Eco-Village
Tuesday 23rd June 2009

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Turning around the oil tanker

• UK target reduction
• Peak oil cost and reliability of supply
• Code for Sustainable Homes
• Sweden
• Reduction in use of oil for heating electricity
  production by 90
• Carbon dioxide emissions down by 9 from 1990-2006

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Do we understand what carbon we manage?

• Accord Carbon Footprint
• Company cars 42 tonnes PA
• Offices 230 tonnes PA
• Existing homes 22,500 tonnes PA

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Do we understand what carbon we manage?

• The National Trust Carbon Footprint
• Business travel 2,300 tonnes PA
• Electricity 20,000 tonnes PA
• Visitor travel 117,000 tonnes PA
• Agriculture 668,000 tonnes PA

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Carbon store or sink?

• Carbon sink
• Where carbon is accumulating in growing wood or
  other plant material or in soil or peat through
  the process of photosynthesis where plants use
  the energy from sunlight and the carbon from
  atmospheric carbon to make their own food
• Carbon store
• Where previously accumulated carbon is retained
  in soils

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Carbon accounting

• For carbon accounting to be really meaningful it
  is critical that organisations consider the range
  of impacts that are material to its assets and
  its operations
• Soil is the second biggest carbon store on the
  plant after the oceans
• 70 billion tonnes in EU soils, 2 billion tonnes
  emissions by member states PA
• Organisations rarely consider the role of soils
  in climate change either by releasing carbon or
  sequestering it from the atmosphere

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• Regional Sustainable Housing Partnership
• established by SWM
• 2005-2008 funding EST, Birmingham Science
• City, Accord HA Wates
• 2009 funding Accord Family South Shropshire HAs
• Wolverhampton Sandwell
  Homes
• Birmingham Housing Wates

What is SHAP?

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• Delivery mechanism from the SWM input
• to Regional Housing Strategy
• SHAP 1 Review of Low Carbon Housing
• in the West Midlands
• SHAP 2 Planning Guidance for Low
• Carbon Housing in Regional
• Local Planning Policy
• - with best practice examples

History of SHAP

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• SHAP 3 2008
• I - Low Carbon Housing Lessons from Best
• Practice
• II - Low Carbon Housing Market Framework
• - input to Regional Spatial Strategy
• SHAP 4 2009
• Beyond Decent Homes Retrofit Standard

SHAP 2008 - 2009

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SHAP 3 2008
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• Over 20 low carbon housing case studies
• Over 20 market development case studies
• Two practitioner workshops New build
• Refurbishment
• Telephone interviews
• Background
• Review of recent reports and statistics
• Policy Strategy development

SHAP research 2008

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Basic Pre-1995
SAP 75 Current 2006 Bldg Regs -20
SAP 80 Advanced Code 3/4 -25
SAP 85 Future Code 5/6 -100
SAP 100
Carbon benchmarks

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Carbon benchmarks

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• Urban renaissance
• Housing market renewal
• Suburban heartlands
• Rural villages and market towns

SHAP 3 - 2008 Four housing character areas

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Urban Renaissance
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Urban Renaissance
Queens Gate, Croydon
Electric Wharf, Coventry
Comet Square, Hatfield
Titanic Mill, Linthwaite
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Housing Market Renewal
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Housing Market Renewal
Showell Park, Wolverhampton
Francis Court, Dudley
INTEGER, Sandwell
Castle Vale
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Housing Market Renewal
Northmoor, Manchester
Angell Town, Brixton
Aberdeen Heat and Power
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Suburban Heartlands
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Pioneers
Nottingham
Bournville
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Rural Villages and Market Towns
Rural Villages and Market Towns
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• Marketing, cost and value
• Willing to pay energy costs
• Housing market renewal
• Innovation and learning
• Open book, capture learning, occupiers support?
• Supply chain development
• Cost, economies of scale, maintenance, skills
• Code 5/6 Infrastructure and capital cost
• Market drivers
• Planning, Building Control, Government Agencies
• Policy
• Social Landlords, Decent Homes, ESCos

SHAP 3 - 2008 Key messages

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AWM/WMRA Baseline Assessment Report
Recommendations

• Activity needs to be a combination of measures to
• Reduce heat energy use
• Improve efficiency of heating and appliances
• Investment in LZC technologies (micro to
  district)
• Change lifestyle and behaviour
• PassivHaus or EPC approach to whole house
  refurbishment?
• Low Carbon Zones (initial affordable warmth
  focus)
• Street by street or community led?
• Target hard to treat areas and train up supply
  chain

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SHAP 4 2009 Beyond Decent Homes

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Existing housing stock

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SHAP 4 2009
PROJECT TITLE Beyond Decent Homes OVERALL
OBJECTIVES To establish a Beyond Decent Homes
Standard (BDH) for the refurbishment of existing
housing stock which moves beyond current practice
for Implementing the Decent Homes programme by
identifying-
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SHAP 4 2009

• I Additional features which can be funded by the
  allocation of existing Decent Homes funding
• II Additional features which can be funded from
  alternative sources and implemented at the same
  time as the Decent Homes programme
• III Further opportunities which can be
  incorporated into the replacement Standard for
  the Decent Homes Standard and used to influence
  the preparation of that Standard

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SHAP 4 2009 HOUSING TYPES

• Older properties including
• - 19th Century terraces
• - 19th/early 20th Century semi-detached
  
• Non traditional properties including
• - Concrete panel construction
• Low rise purpose built apartments
• High rise blocks
• Garden city-type semi-detached

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SHAP 4 2009
IMPROVEMENT

• The Standard will include four Categories of
  Improvement
• I Building fabric, including insulation,
  glazing, air tightness and daylighting
• II Energy supply, including low carbon options
  for heat/power supply
• III Fit-out, including appliances and lighting
  (including good practice in access to Energy
  Efficient appliances)
• IV Information, including the scope for smart
  metering, Tenants Engagement (and Green
• Doctor schemes

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SHAP 4 2009 MONITORING

• Monitoring - Phase One of SHAP 4 will identify
  practical means of monitoring the BDH standard
  based on -
• I SAP and EPC ratings
• II Capital cost per m2/dwelling
• III Operating Costs
• IV Fuel Poverty
• V CO2 emissions

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SHAP 4 2009 COSTS

• I Calculate the cost of meeting the BDH
  improvement standard in each of the identified
  house/flat types based on a standard set of
  improvement measures, as suited to that house/
  flat type.

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SHAP 4 2009 COSTS

• II The cost () versus CO2 saving potential
  of the range of measures to achieve the BDH
  standard in each of the house/ flat types will
  also be calculated to enable organisations to
  plan programmes of work based around an
  understanding of the CO2 impact and financial
  cost of each measure.

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SHAP 4 2009 FUNDING
Identify alternative sources of funding
including partnerships with the Energy Utilities
to access funding and data in order to supplement
existing funding available for Decent Homes and
improvements.
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SHAP 4 2009 PROGRAMME

• Technical Workshops next 23rd July
• Autumn conference for launch of Guide
• Publication and implementation of Guide

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SHAP FUTURE PROGRAMME
Purchasing benefits of consortiums working
with specialist installers   Quantify the demand
for and supply of Low Carbon Retrofit Products
  Quantify the skills available for the
installation of Low Carbon Housing Retrofit
Products  
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SHAP FUTURE PROGRAMME
Identify support and partners for the
development of the supply chain and skills for
these products
Identify pilots for the implementation of a low
carbon BDH standard  
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SHAP FUTURE PROGRAMME
Identify and develop financial models in mixed
ownership housing (e.g. enveloping terraced
housing) to include Kickstart Loans
Identify and develop financial models to deliver
community heating projects for medium to high
density housing and hard to treat properties  

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Sustainable Housing Action Programme SHAP
4 admin_at_shap.uk.com Summerfield Eco-Village
Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Alan Yates Chair SHAP