Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £1.5 million in innovation projects.
The aim of this competition is to accelerate the shift to a net zero economy. The focus is on reducing the cost and time required for assessing the fabric performance of buildings and assuring net zero performance targets are achieved.
Your proposal must be applicable to existing buildings requiring renovation as a priority and be applicable to new buildings or buildings on construction.
Your solutions must be able to assess fabric performance before measures are installed, during construction and re-evaluate heat performance at completion of any building works.
Any fabric performance measurement technique must be:
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.
Eligibility
Your project
Your project must:
You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian and Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian and Belarusian source.
If your project’s grant funding request falls outside of our eligibility criteria, you must provide justification by email to support@iuk.ukri.org at least 10 working days before the competition closes. We will decide whether to approve your request.
If you have not requested approval or your application has not been approved by us, you will be made ineligible. Your application will then not be sent for assessment.
Lead organisation
To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
More information on the different types of organisation can be found in our Funding rules.
If the lead organisation is a large business or an RTO, charity, not for profit or public sector organisation it must collaborate with at least one grant claiming SME.
Academic institutions cannot lead an application.
Project team
To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
Non-funded partners
Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses.
Subcontractors
Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you could not use suppliers from the UK.
You must provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you. We will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.
All subcontractor costs must be justified and appropriate to the total project costs.
Number of applications
A business, charity, not for profit or public sector organisation can only lead on one application but can be included as a collaborator in a further 2 applications. If a business, charity, not for profit or public sector organisation is not leading any application, it can collaborate in up to 3 applications.
An RTO can lead one application and can collaborate on any number of applications.
An academic organisation can collaborate on any number of applications.
The aim of this competition is to accelerate the shift to a net zero economy. The focus is on reducing the cost and time required for assessing the fabric performance of buildings and assuring net zero performance targets are achieved.
Understanding the fabric performance of a building before and after any building upgrade improvement measures are installed provides confidence in those measures.
Building upgrade measures mean improvements to building fabric, heating, power and ventilation systems along with other heat demand reduction solutions. Many of the most established techniques for assessing and testing building fabric performance are largely based on standardised conditions. These tests can require significant preparation, are costly and can take a long time to carry out.
Providing robust information on potential heat reduction is vital to increase assurance of building performance. It is this information that builds market confidence and leads to certainty of finance and ultimately faster uptake of measures.
Your project must be applicable to real world measuring requirements for assessing fabric performance in buildings. By real world we mean outside of pure research or academic exercises.
Your solutions must demonstrate the following:
Applicable buildings can be:
Examples of new or improved testing techniques include, but are not limited to:
The key outcome of this competition is to make real world tests widespread and repeatable.
Portfolio approach
We want to fund a variety of projects across different technologies, markets, technological maturities and research categories. We call this a portfolio approach.
Specific Themes
Your project must include:
Your project can also include one or more of the following:
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