| Retrofit

We offer a Retrofit Advice Service to address many of the issues so commonly faced with existing buildings. If your home is cold, draughty or your bills are becoming  increasingly expensive, retrofit is the answer. Reducing the energy usage of our existing buildings has become critical in responding to the UK energy crisis and global climate crisis.​

We start with a whole house approach to retrofit and assess the need to phase the works. By improving your insulation and building fabric you can achieve lower energy bills, improve your thermal comfort and reduce your carbon impact. Since this brings its technical challenges we are really happy to offer our Retrofit Advice Service, alongside our Architectural Services, to guide you through the process.

is becoming increasingly important in the context of both the UK energy crisis and the global climate crisis. This does however bring technical challenges

How
Retrofit Feasibility & Design Strategy Report

To ensure that you will be putting your investment where it will have the greatest impact on your day-to-day experiences in your home, we offer a detailed Retrofit Feasibility and Design Strategy Report bespoke to your property.
 
Through detailed assessment and analysis of your existing home, taking constraints, individual circumstances and aspirations in account, the report will look at all aspects of the building fabric, construction and services and, if appropriate, detailed modelling in the PHPP (Passive House Planning Package) energy efficiency planning tool and assessment of the potential for Enerphit certification - the gold standard of low energy retrofit.
 
Following on from the report we engage in full and in-depth discussions with our clients to discuss the broad range of findings, potential approaches and recommendations it contains; using this to inform and plan how best to progress your project, both now and in potential future phases of work.

Our Approach to Retrofit

Just as each client and building is unique, so is each retrofit; however, there are some core principles which will underpin each one that we engage with:

• Croft endorses what is known as a fabric-first approach to low-energy design which prioritises the building fabric: tackling what will be most impactful in lowering bills and increasing thermal comfort; before looking to any sustainable technological solutions to provide energy or services

• We evaluate each retrofit using the PHPP (Passive House Planning Package) energy efficiency planning tool and can further assess for the potential of Enerphit Certification - the gold standard of low-energy retrofit.

Following on from the findings of the Retrofit Feasibility and Design Strategy Report we can then move the project forward in a similar manner to our new build projects to support our clients through technical and detailed design, tender management and during construction through contract management.

Moving Forwards

FAQ's

We are sure that you have lots of questions when thinking about your new project. 
We have collated some of the questions that often get asked, to try and provide as much information as possible about us and how we work. 

FAQ's

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