Planning an energy upgrade? Start by understanding how your building performs today.

The Implementation Lab helps businesses, community organisations and property owners assess their building’s energy performance, understand their EPC position and identify improvements that may be needed before moving forward with energy-efficiency measures, renewable technologies or funding applications.

Understand Your Building's energy Performance

Before investing in a heat pump, solar panels, building controls or other energy upgrades, it is important to understand how your building currently uses and loses energy.

We help identify the factors that may be affecting your building’s energy performance and highlight areas that could require improvement before you move forward with larger upgrades.

• EPC and energy-performance review

• Building fabric and efficiency considerations

• Identification of potential upgrade requirements

 Is Your Building Ready for an Energy Upgrade?

An EPC provides useful information about a building's energy performance, but planning an upgrade can require looking beyond the rating itself.

We help you consider the wider building factors that may affect an energy upgrade — including insulation, heat loss, heating systems, ventilation and other building-fabric considerations.

Identifying these issues early can help you make better-informed decisions and understand what may need attention before progressing with measures such as a heat pump or other low-carbon technologies.

What We Can Help You Assess

We help you build a clearer picture of your property's current performance and the improvements that may be needed before an energy upgrade begins.

• Current EPC rating and recommendations

• Insulation and building-fabric considerations

• Heating-system performance and suitability

• Heat-loss and ventilation considerations

• Potential energy-efficiency improvements

• Readiness for heat pumps and other low-carbon technologies

• Potential requirements linked to funding or grant applications

Prepare Your Building Before You Invest

Making major energy upgrades without first understanding your building can lead to unnecessary costs, delays or unsuitable improvements.

The Implementation Lab helps you identify potential issues early and develop a clearer route towards improving your building's energy performance. Whether you're considering a heat pump, renewable energy system or wider retrofit project, we help you understand what should happen first and what your next steps could be.