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Spotting trends and providing commentary on the future of our industry
UK Homes & Energy Efficient Delivery
An insight portfolio providing a health check of the energy efficiency interventions being delivered across the UK and understanding the gaps.
Homes & Quality - Did you know?
Did you know by making £9.1 million homes more energy efficient (from EPC rating D to C) could reduce your annual cost of living by £495? That’s the equivalent to £1,196 per saving per year.
Protecting homeowners & improving quality of home improvements
Delivering impact by protecting homeowners & improving quality of home improvements - enabling the UK to live warmer, happier & healthier.
Where to find 350k new retrofit jobs to meet 2050 energy targets?
A constructive challenge for industry but perhaps a sleeping and untapped opportunity worth exploring. There are four critical audiences we can look towards in addressing this gap.
A helicopter view: Energy efficient interventions
Since 2020, TrustMark's Data Warehouse has been tracking measures overseen across the various energy efficiency government schemes
Thinking Outside The Box
Driving innovation: What’s on the horizon.
Opportunities the home repair, maintenance & improvement (RMI) industry will expect to see in the future.
New materials coming to the market
Innovation can occur in the process and materials being used – making products more effective, resilient and quick to get to the market.
Lithium-ion batteries
Did you know that lithium-ion batteries are responsible for around 48% of all waste fires occurring in the UK each year, costing the UK economy some £158 million annually.
Demonstrating Social Impact
Homes sit at the heart of our communities. How do homes create and demonstrate social impact?
What is social impact?
Guest blog by Anna Clare Harper, CEO of responsible investment business, GreenResi, 3 x author and host of The Return: Property & Investment Podcast
Emerging Technologies
Commencing our new Insights programme, with a special series on Emerging Technologies.
Change is coming. Learn how new technologies can help drive business value
Emerging technologies: What you need to know
Did you know 85% of employment growth over the last 80 years is explained by technology-driven roles?
Ten things you need to know about AI
"The real value of AI will be in its ability to empower humans to make better decisions faster."
Use cases for AI in home RMI
The opportunity is huge but dependent on the size of your business, risk appetite for automation and vision for growth.
Rewards & Risks of AI
Implementation of AI will differ across home RMI trades and business size, as will the degree of benefits and challenges.
AR & VR in the home RMI
VR & AR is estimated to have a market volume of £1.7B by 2028, but how can your business take advantage of this technology?
Does digital twinning have a role in home RMI?
How Digital Twins are transforming the home repair, maintenance and improvement sector
The SME: AI has something for you too
Did you know around one in six UK organisations, totalling 432,000, have embraced at least one AI technology?
Futureproofing the industry skillset
AI contributed £3.7 billion to the UK economy in 2022 and the UK currently has an AI workforce of over 50,000.
Protecting your customer's data
In this mass of varying technologies, customer data and its protection are fundamental
Implementing an emerging technology strategy
Here is a recommended 10-point roadmap of the steps that could be taken – for a business of any size including an SME
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