The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) has today responded to the full publication of the Warm Homes Plan.
Welcoming to the Plan, Usman Yaqub, President of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists, said:
“A safe, healthy home is an essential foundation for a good life. But as the Warm Homes Plan acknowledges, UK homes are disproportionately cold and damp, fuelling the cost-of-living crisis and contributing to ill health, climate change and air pollution. In this context, the Warm Homes Plan, with its flexible approach and substantial financial underpinning, delivers on many of CIAT’s priorities.
“Tried and tested measures, such as insulation, rooftop solar panels and heat-pumps, will deliver rapid benefits, while innovative technologies, from heat batteries to local heat networks linked to new data centres, will put the UK at the cutting edge of the energy transition.
“CIAT particularly welcomes efforts to rationalise the UK’s complex, fragmented home upgrades landscape, by establishing the Warm Homes Agency as a single point of access, merging programmes over time, and providing a universal offer, so that no household is excluded from support.
“Of course, there is always more to do. While resilience measures such as external shading are mentioned, the Plan fails to recognise the value of holistic design-led upgrades, as outlined in CIAT’s recent report ‘Beyond the Warm Homes Plan: A National Retrofit Programme for People and Planet’. And while the Plan alludes to the Future Homes Standard and whole-life carbon assessment, it does not advance either of these prioritise, meaning that, for the time being, UK homes will continue to be built to outdated standards.
“But Overall, Warm Homes Plan represents a step change in how we tackle the UK’s crisis of poor housing. And that’s something to celebrate.”
The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) is the global membership qualifying body for Architectural Technology. It exists as a not-for-profit organisation to lead, represent, and promote Architectural Technology and sets and maintains the standards for AT education, practice and professionalism.
Chartered Architectural Technologists are leaders of technological design, forming the link between concept, innovation, and realisation. They are qualified designers who lead a range of built environment projects large and small – from schools to sports stadiums to high rise buildings.
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