SERVICES

The LEAF team are impartial, informed and most importantly, qualified Architects we offer the following services, dependant on your requirements:

Retrofit Co-ordinator
Retrofit Designer
Property Acquisition
Stock Assessment
SAP Assessor
EPC
NDEA
PAS2035 Compliance
Thermographic Surveys*
Detailed Thermal modelling
Cloud based surveys
Retrofit Quantity Surveying (Cost consultant)

* Property heated months only

What sets us apart is that we are experienced Architects and property professionals, not only do we know buildings, but we know how to detail and design buildings, the knowledge is already there. As Architects we are inherently in tune with the liabilities and risks involved in the building process as a whole. When you work with LEAF you are in safe hands.

For those not required to follow PAS2035 (private homeowners and landlords) LEAF offers a unique retrofit service. Like PAS2035, our LEAF process provides a series of tailored procedures and solutions using detailed software analysis of the building modelling to ensure that your retrofit is carried out correctly, once, avoiding the use of future maintenance expenditure or the incidence of the unintended consequences of retrofit.

HOW CAN LEAF HELP YOU?

LEAF offers support to property owners, private landlords, local authorities, social housing and asset managers on the retrofit journey.

We use our knowledge as Architects and property professionals to forensically examine your buildings and offer tailored solutions to improve the building fabric for the future. We will always go for the easy wins first and our tiered recommendations are robustly tested to ensure there are no unintended consequences and provide you with the required outcome.

Retrofit goes beyond just improving EPC

Find out more about how LEAF can help you

Homeowner

Looking to make your home more energy efficient and improve your carbon footprint? We are architects and property professionals who want to help. LEAF offers a truly unique homeowners retrofitting advice from as a little as £500

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Social Landlord

LEAF offers Social Landlords a PAS 2035 compliant route to assessing stock and implementing carbon reduction improvements for a portfolio. We work with your asset managers to produce informed and cost-effective solutions

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Private Landlord

Working with your team LEAF can help produce a comprehensive stock assessment and tiered solution plan that can be built into your asset management. We also offer front end acquisition support to inform viability of potential projects.

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LEAF Process

Our LEAF process will provide you with three reports, depending on the level of service you require. They recommend changes which range from simple to 'Whole House' solutions that can done immediately or over the course of 25 years. The recommendations are all tested robustly to ensure each staged improvement works symbiotically with the last, avoiding any long term unintended consequences.

LEAF Process

Enquiry

For the LEAF team, it all starts with a seemingly simple question - what is the motivation? Lower bills? Lower emissions? Lower embodied carbon? Compliance (PAS 2035)? We are keen to know the reasoning for your enquiry because every answer will help inform the direction of the retrofit journey.

Discovery

You will receive our ‘LEAF Client Questionnaire’. This helps us define and understand your requirements and gain important insights into the condition of the property/housing stock. Our accompanying informative guidance called ‘is your property retrofit ready?’ can give you an idea of the first enabling steps potentially needed for a whole building retrofit.

1:Initial Findings

The ‘Initial Findings Report’ will present you with a written summary highlighting the weaknesses and strengths of the property. Combined with an understanding of your own motivations, this will inform where we need to focus our energies to improve the building’s thermal performance. We will give the building a risk assessment under the PAS2035 process at this stage.

Outcomes:

Property visit and data collection by a LEAF Retrofit Assessor
Condition survey
RdSAP assessment
Initial findings report by Retrofit Coordinator
Upload to the data warehouse

2:Outline Improvements

Our Retrofit Co-ordinators will now generate the ‘Outline Improvement Plan’, with solutions tailored to the needs of your property. Importantly, LEAF takes a holistic approach to your retrofit, considering the interaction and sequence of each appropriate measure. This stage includes carrying out IES thermal modelling that tests the improvements and give initial levels of energy & carbon savings to be achieved. Along with the IES data it will give you a visual guide to the energy savings achievable with each stage. This can be uploaded to the Government Endorsed TrustMark Database as part of the intended Outcomes phase of PAS2035

Extras can be added here such as QS consulting, Thermal heat loss survey and renewed SAP check.

Outcomes:

Property visit and findings highlighted by a LEAF retrofit Coordinator
Report outlining steps of measures for improvement
IES model output indicating graphically how much energy and carbon can potentially be saved

*Property survey required at this stage

Specific Improvements

A discussion of the outline improvements and targets with the Client. The improvements will now become more defined through the creation of a detailed, costed, Specific Improvement Plan.

LEAF will use trusted software for in-depth analysis of the building improvements, measure potential benefits and implications, review the SAP ratings and adjust the thermal & energy modelling where necessary. We then take an overview of the data to arrive at an optimal solution for your building (or building stock). If PAS2035 compliance is required Retrofit Cost Consultants can provide outline estimates at this stage. This will again be uploaded to the TrustMark Database as the Improvement Option Evaluation.

Once we have agreed the scope of improvements to be made, the Co-ordinator will brief, and oversee the work of the Retrofit Designer (experienced Architects). The Designer will detail the building alterations using specifications and drawings as required for tender procurement of Contractors, in-line with the RIBA plan of works.

Outcomes:

Client meeting to discuss findings and their priorities
Robust and more detailed testing of the LEAF Outline Improvements above
Costing applied to the improvements
Step by step report taking you from essential maintenance through to a zero-carbon whole house solution
Upload to data warehouse

Are you Retrofit Ready?

Buildings function as a whole, sensitive to changes that happen within them, so planning retrofit and maintenance measures in isolation rather than as part of a joined-up process risks incurring unintended consequences, such as inappropriate insulation specification and positioning leading to moisture degradation of a building fabric.

LEAF is here to provided solid guidance to those seeking to navigate the journey towards energy reduction and decarbonisation in existing buildings. Before you embark on the retrofit journey you will need to ensure your building is 'Retrofit Ready' as simple maintenance can increase both internal comfort and the fuel efficiency of the building, as it allows the building to work as effectively as possible. For instance cracks in the render may contribute to damp, which in turn will lead to mould growth.

Maintenance makes your building ‘retrofit ready’ and should be done before undertaking larger measures. Access the LEAF Retrofit Ready guide and see what you can do to start the journey.

LEAF accreditations & memberships

SERVICES

HOW CAN LEAF HELP YOU?

Homeowner

Social Landlord

Private Landlord

LEAF Process

Enquiry

For the LEAF team, it all starts with a seemingly simple question - what is the motivation? Lower bills? Lower emissions? Lower embodied carbon? Compliance (PAS 2035)? We are keen to know the reasoning for your enquiry because every answer will help inform the direction of the retrofit journey.

Discovery

1:Initial Findings

Outcomes:

2:Outline Improvements

Outcomes:

*Property survey required at this stage

Specific Improvements

Outcomes:

Are you Retrofit Ready?

Download the LEAF Retrofit Ready Guide

LEAF accreditations & memberships

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