{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Zero Ambitions Podcast","title":"Innovating and maturing: Loco Home Retrofit is an \"emerging\" retrofit one-stop-shop, with co-founder Chris Carus ","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/01f955ed\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4108,"description":"Joining us on Zero Ambitions this week is Chris Carus co-founder of Loco Home Retrofit, a Glasgow-based 'emerging one-step shop'.\nLoco Home Retrofit is a retrofit operation that's most interesting for its approach to developing a viable retrofit offer, focused on building trust in communities and with its supply chain as a means to catalysing the decarbonisation of our homes (or at least Glasgow's homes). \nAnd now, they're hiring, seeking to fill three positions (below) so if you know of anyone suitable please share the ads:\nMarketing and community engagement manager \nTechnical manager \nInnovation programme manager\nAs much as anything else, we love how they think about the retrofit challenge. Their considered approach to building a proposition and a method is what has really sold us, possibly because it resonates with our UX-focused approach to everything, but mainly because it seems to make sense.\n\n\nNotes from the show\nThe Loco Home Retrofit website\nChris on LinkedIn \nLoco Home Retrofit on LinkedIn\nAll three job ads, again\nChris's interview with BE-ST after winning the Gamechanger award at the Accelerate to Zero Awards 2023\nDesigning an ‘optimal’ domestic retrofit programme by Aaron Gillich et al (2017) – The paper Chris couldn't remember the name for\nLoco Home Retrofit's 2023/24 impact report detailing their innovation efforts to date\nResearch Report - The right time for heat pumps in retrofit (Alan Clarke for Passive House Trust) – the other paper that Chris and Jeff reference\n\n\n**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**\nWe don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs.\nFollow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website)\nJeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency; Everything is User Experience\nSubscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too)\nCheck Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront\nJoin ACAN\nJoin the AECB \nJoin the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/imp-PGTK0p-Yir06lCKyRzcHa9UWxL7NtYiXEdkSiXw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI2NDY5LzE2OTYy/ODc4ODAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}