Transcript Investment Options - National Insulation Association

Solid Wall Solutions:
Focus on Quality
Solid Wall Insulation Guarantee Agency
Ecobuild 2nd March 2010
The Solid Wall Insulation Guarantee Agency
CCP Context
• The Government has ambitious targets to reduce
CO2 emissions to 60% of 1990 levels by 2050
• The UK’s 26m homes account for ~27% of National
CO2 emissions
• Three Quarters of homes that will be standing in
2050 have already been built so retrofit is key.
• Retrofitting of “simple” measures such as cavity
wall insulation will be nearing completion by 2015
• A third of homes have solid walls
• To achieve Climate Change Targets all existing
Solid Wall housing will have to be insulated
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CCP Context
• At current insulation rates of 15-25k properties each year
just 15% will have been treated by 2050
• Therefore to achieve the required levels solid wall solution
delivery capacity will have to increase 10 fold.
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The Challenge
• What needs to happen
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Rapidly ramp up industry capacity
Increase demand and delivery rates
Maintain installation quality
Ensure robust carbon savings for Government and fuel
savings for consumers
– Secure economies of scale to minimise costs
• Barriers
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Lack of drivers/policies to encourage uptake
Highly fragmented industry
Regulatory constraints – Building Control/Planning
Lack of awareness and demand
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Fragmentation
• Complex supply chain
• Current SWI focus is
on new build and
large scale social
renovation projects
– 88% of projects are
multiple occupancy
– 90% Local Authority or
Housing Association
• Expansion will mean
that increasingly
projects will be
community based.
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Implications
• Scaling delivery and shift to Smaller Scale
community based projects means:
– Lack of design expertise
– Loss of multi level quality checks and balances
implicit in large projects
– Additional Building regulation/control and
planning considerations
– Increasing interactions with consumers and
social landlords.
– Need to communicate advantages of technology
to a wider range of stakeholders
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SWIGA
• The SWIGA framework will address these barriers
and provide confidence that:
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Training will be available
Installations will be of high quality
Carbon and Energy Savings will be achieved
Consumers will be protected through a Guarantee
• What is SWIGA?
– Independent non profit making organisation
– Encompasses technical and delivery expertise drawn
from across the insulation industry
– Based on successful CIGA Cavity Wall Insulation
Model
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Overview of SWIGA Scheme
• The SWIGA framework will address these barriers
and provide:
– Quality Assurance:
• Training and Skills
• Best Practice Guides
• Approved Installers
• Surveillance Scheme
• Robust Standard Solutions
– Consumer Protection
• Guarantee Scheme
• Codes of Practice
• Arbitration Service
– Promotion
• Professional marketing
Approved
Installers
System
Designers
SWIGA
Best
Practice
Guides
SWIGA
Guarantee
Scheme
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Training & Skills
• Skills and training key to ensuring high quality
installations as capacity increases.
• Working with Sector Skills Councils
• Development of NVQ Level II qualification
• Incorporation of CSCS skills cards
• “Best practice Guides” – to cover all areas of:
– Assessment
– Installation
– Health & safety
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Approved Installers
• Approved installer members subject to checks
covering Financial Stability and Technical
Resources
• Once admitted to membership Approved Installer
members must
– Comply with SWIGA technical guidance
– Maintain appropriate resources and have procedures for
Materials quality control, Pre Installation assessments,
Work Planning, Installation and Quality monitoring
– Provide training
– Participate in the Guarantee scheme.
– Operate to a professional codes of practice
– Be subject to regular surveillance
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Robust Standard Solutions
• Government must have confidence that
carbon and energy savings will be delivered
in practice.
• Innovative funding mechanisms will rely on
delivery of predicted cost savings
• Addressed through Robust Standard
Solutions engineered to meet quality and
savings criteria
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Consumer Guarantee
• Guarantee cover starts on completion of works and
covers defects in materials and workmanship:
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Qualifying External, Internal or Hybrid systems.
Residential Properties
Private and Social sector
All property types
25 year term to reflect typical loan terms
£15,000 total liability
Transferable to subsequent property owners
Arbitration Service – to resolve any pre completion
disputes.
• Will incorporate standard format SWI “Owners
Manual” and specifications for installation.
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Promotion
• Promotion and marketing of Solid Wall insulation
essential to raise awareness amongst stakeholders
including:
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Householders
Government
Local Authorities
Energy Suppliers etc.
• Liaison with Government regarding Solid Wall
policy development
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