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The FMB has entered into a partnership with Digital Buildings to streamline access to carbon credits and quantify social impact from retrofit projects. FMB members will gain access to Retrogreen, which Digital Buildings has designed to: ● Make it easier to connect builders with projects eligible for carbon credits ● Provide homeowners access to mortgages with reduced rates on green home improvements ● Speed up the process for homeowners and builders by generating a detailed online specification of retrofit projects, which removes the need for builders to visit sites to prepare quotes. Digital Buildings CEO Colin Calder said: “Retrogreen is the only service that automatically creates a digital replica of a home and provides a legally binding framework in which a homeowner can create their ideal home improvement plan, secure finance through a financial adviser, obtain competitive quotes from Trustmark- registered contractors and benefit from all the consumer protections available from Digital Buildings being a licensed Trustmark Scheme Provider.” FMB Chief Executive Brian Berry said a "huge amount of work" is needed to meet the UK's target of Net Zero by 2050, including insulating and upgrading: ● 10 million homes – as they currently have New Retrofit Scheme to support members
FMB at TrustMark’s Scheme Provider Forum
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change, the skills shortage and challenges the construction industry faces, with updates from: ● The Department for Business & Trade ● HSE Building Safety Regulator ● Competition and Markets Authority. TrustMark also shared its mission to help achieve improvement across the ‘protect’ spectrum, including quality, coverage, sustainability and consumer protection. FMB features on panel Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the FMB, took part in one of the discussion panels, which addressed the topic of how trade bodies are supporting small and micro businesses. Berry, alongside fellow panellists from the National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting and the British Pest Control Association, sparked great collaborative ideas for issues and opportunities in the industry. The panel was chaired by Liz Barclay, a former Radio 4 presenter and UK Small Business Commissioner. Key themes from the panel ● Promoting construction as a career from a young age ● How the industry can address the skills gap and ongoing talent ● A rise in mental health issues among many solo tradespeople ● Sharing best practices to help businesses work better and be kept up to date with changes in an evolving industry.
government-endorsed quality scheme in the UK for work carried out in or around
consumers’ homes, held its annual Scheme Provider Forum in September. The event featured many positive dialogues and identified important actions for all industry stakeholders, such as: ● Improve consumer protection ● Raise standards ● Support growth across the home improvement sector. Held at the National Self Build and Renovation Centre in Swindon, more than 90 representatives attended from across 38 scheme providers, including from the FMB and the government, as well as other industry stakeholders. They met to focus on what can be achieved together in the home energy efficiency, property decarbonisation, retrofit and repair, maintain and improve (RMI) sectors. The main topics covered at the forum included net zero and climate
Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the FMB shares his thoughts at TrustMark's Scheme Provider Forum
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