Hub West Scotland is a private sector development company who work in partnership with the public sector in the West of Scotland. They were interested, not only in understanding how best to develop these strategies across large, varied estates, but also how local authorities and other public bodies could benefit from working collaboratively to tackle this challenge, and so created the Net Zero Collaboration Group.

The first phase of work in the retrofit of Scotland’s National Retrofit Centre (SNRC) is now complete. But what has the project taught us, and what’s next?

The Torry Heat Network in Aberdeen is a landmark project that demonstrates how retrofit heat networks can deliver both climate and social impact.

Local opportunities are supported by nationwide expertise.

James Morton, a Scottish doctor, writer and former Bake-Off contestant, has been cooking up something new over the last year. He has gone from baking to building by tackling the challenge of retrofitting his and his partner’s own century-old home in Glasgow, getting hands-on with some of the installation himself.

Low Carbon Learning initially began as Scotland’s first National Passivhaus training programme.

Many Scottish dwellings are over 100 years old: 23% are pre-1919 tenement flats and most remain un-insulated, so a solution is needed for effectively retrofitting older dwellings.

The NearHome project is helping retrofit public spaces into sustainable office alternatives, reflecting the changing working patterns of a post-Covid Scotland.