Apply for Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) funding to develop data driven approaches for upgrading portfolios of buildings. Innovate UK is investing up to £5 million (across two phases) to accelerate the shift to a net zero economy, by developing and testing scalable commercial service propositions.

These must reduce bills and carbon emissions from buildings with the intention of commercialising the results beyond phase two of this competition.

Projects must take a data-driven approach to assessing and defining appropriate pathways for:

  • the upgrading of building portfolios
  • targeting decarbonisation
  • energy demand reduction
  • market demand certainty
  • heat efficiency

This is phase one of a two-phase competition. For phase one, you must deliver a technical feasibility study and produce a feasibility report that:

  • outlines your approach to delivering future building upgrade programmes,
  • identifies a building portfolio-owning partner, and
  • describes supply chain partners and outlines how this service could be commercialised more broadly after the end of the project.

For phase two, successful projects from phase one will be invited to apply for funding to test their approach. Success in the phase two competition will depend on a subsequent assessment process.

See: Competition overview – SBRI: Net Zero heat and power upgrades for demand reduction phase 1 – Innovation Funding Service (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk)