• Run workshops with the project partners and target audience – Generation Homes workshops are organised in two overlapping formats:

1. Design and development workshops for private low-carbon technology and service providers, where specific products and services are discussed in order to come up with integrated solutions for their application is a retrofit context. Technical aspects of supply and installation are considered alongside smart financial mechanisms that improve cost-effectiveness (e.g. volume purchasing, low-carbon loans and labour efficiency) and help grow the market.

2. Project development workshops for property managing organisations (such as Housing Associations) which are familiarised with the Generation Homes approach and opportunities. Participants are also guided through the process of identifying and putting forward suitable GH demonstration schemes (usually tied in with planned refurbishment programmes).

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• Develop GH demonstration projects – the Generation Homes partners provide assistance to property managing organisations with developing refurbishment project that aim to achieve more than 60% carbon emission savings. Typically, this is a achieved by upgrading scheduled refurbishment to the Generation Homes standard where a comprehensive range of energy-saving measures are applied to the property.

• Facilitate financing of GH refurbishment schemes – a range of financial mechanisms are available to projects aspiring to go beyond 60% carbon reductions and Generation Homes helps to access funding sources (such as grants and subsidies), as well as reduces the overall costs through smart management of the supply chain, such as employing economies of scale and mix and match principles.