Housing Energy and Sustainability Consultancy Services

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The City of Edinburgh Council has an ambitious strategy to deliver new homes, invest significantly in existing stock and the transform services for customers, which is outlined in the latest Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Budget Strategy. The HRA aims to deliver a 2.5 billion GBP investment over ten years in building and improving Council homes to deliver Council commitments on affordable housing and net zero carbon by 2030 and is based on the following three priorities to: expand and accelerate the development of affordable and low-cost housing; continue to modernise existing Council homes and neighbourhoods; and transform front line services to tenants to tackle inequality and reduce their costs of living. The above priorities are being taken forward under the latest HRA Budget Strategy, and Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) The Housing Service require a single supplier to act as an Energy and Sustainability Consultancy Service Partner for a range of consultancy services including input and advice across a range of housing related energy and sustainability issues. Specifically, the successful supplier will help drive forward important workstreams such as the whole house retrofit programme for existing homes and future heat network commercial and delivery options for new build housing. The range of services will also include supporting areas of work as diverse as metering and billing strategies, fuel poverty analysis, carbon offsetting analysis and energy modelling/carbon accounting, low carbon technology appraisals etc. Overall the range of services to be provided will support the Councils Housing Sustainability Approach and its goals of becoming net zero carbon by 2030.