Innovation

“POST-FREE” Finance Solution

In early 2024, our point-of-sale finance solution for home retrofits was awarded nearly £1.8 million in government funding.

The solution’s full name is “Point-of-Sale Technology for Financing Retrofits & Energy Efficiency” (POST-FREE) and it’s is the result of a collaboration with the green homes finance specialist, Scroll Finance. Fundamentally, its purpose is to make residential retrofit decarbonisation projects more affordable for homeowners and landlords.

It completed its ‘Discovery Phase’ in 2023, with support from the Green Home Finance Accelerator, which is part of the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. That phase was designed to evaluate potential barriers to the adoption of domestic energy efficiency measures, and to test the product’s ability to reduce the hurdles typically associated with high up-front costs. Having proven its feasibility, it was then awarded the additional funding to begin a more extensive pilot phase. This will seek to translate the initial findings into tangible, real-world applications.

Social Housing Management Tool

Sustainable Building Services has developed a new smart-social-housing platform. Known as “Smart Technology for Social Housing Management”, the platform integrates sensor data, analytics and client insights to support improvements in productivity, emission-reductions and tenants’ quality-of-life.

Showing before-and-after performance data from net-zero interventions, it also supports clients in gaining the maximum possible value from government grant programmes and will help them meet regulatory requirements such as: