Current Projects

SEA is partnering with NEF to deliver Old Home, SuperHome - a programme to transform energy efficiency within existing housing stock.

To combat climate change, we need to reduce our global carbon footprint by 60% across the board. For older housing the choice is simple: either we transform our houses or demolish them with all the consequent cost, disruption and loss of amenity.

For parts of London, such as Camden with 47%, or in Kensington and Chelsea where 80% of housing was built pre 1919, the consequences would be disastrous.

Click here to use the interactive Superhome map!

Networking with other organisations, Old Home Superhome is setting up and promoting:

• A network of exemplar energy efficient old dwellings, which are local and publicly accessible within 15 minutes to nearly everyone in the country. Making them accessible to the public helps homeowners and local authorities to get hands-on knowledge and be inspired to transform their own housing; we plan to have 1000 exemplars within 5 years, equivalent to one per Tesco. Use the link to the left to use an interactive map of the current Superhomes on the scheme.

• An education programme showing how to replicate the techniques, aimed at homeowners, trades people, local authorities and architects, with the aim of changing attitudes and for people to take action to transform their dwellings

• A research programme to introduce new technologies that deliver better savings per pound spent, and to monitor actual performance.

• A knowledge resource of projects, so successes and failures can be quickly reported and time, money and effort can be saved

• A funding programme that encourages large numbers of public and private owners to transform their housing