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Surveys Archive • Questionnaire on Responsible Retrofit: rethinking quality

2018-03-01T12:38:44

Sustainable Homes is soon to launch its latest report, Responsible retrofit: rethinking quality, focusing on the current state and perception of external wall insulation and energy efficiency in UK housing. This report will bring together insights from housing providers, key stakeholders and the supply chain as a response to the industry’s challenges of funding, quality and an uncertain policy landscape in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

They are keen to have thoughts from local authorities and housing associations and invite you to complete a short questionnaire looking specifically at how the recent events have impacted housing providers – it shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes, and completed responses will be entered to a random draw of one £20 voucher. All responses will be kept anonymous and the deadline is Wednesday 7th March.

To complete the questionnaire visit: https://sustainablehomes.typeform.com/to/UKL75p

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:38 pm

Surveys Archive • ACE Fiscal Incentives Survey

2017-11-09T11:00:32

The Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE) has launched a survey to seek your views on incentives that would help develop the market for home energy efficiency retrofits.

This follows on from ACE's member round-table earlier in the year and is intended to collect evidence that can be used, in particular, to respond to the government's call for evidence on building a market for energy efficiency, which was published alongside the Clean Growth Strategy.

The deadline to respond is Friday, 17 November 2017.

The survey is available from:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LP8B3ZN

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:00 am

Surveys Archive • Ofgem Energy Efficiency and Social Programmes Survey

2017-09-28T14:47:34

The Ofgem Energy Efficiency and Social Programmes (EESP) team, that administers the Energy Company Obligation scheme and Warm Home Discount, have launched the EESP stakeholder survey, which is an opportunity for stakeholders to feedback on their experiences of the programmes.

If you'd like to give feedback, please complete the survey by 13 October 2017.

The survey is available at the following address:
https://ofgem.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form ... cx682kJn6J

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:47 pm

Surveys Archive • Health and Fuel Poverty Review Survey

2017-09-21T12:40:50

NEA has been commissioned, on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Liverpool City Council, to collate information on energy efficiency or fuel poverty schemes operating across the UK which either entirely or in part are deliberately targeting households containing someone with a health condition or disability and are either entirely or partly funded by health – or health funding has been sought.

By responding to this survey, you will contribute to the collection of evidence that will feature in a national report, and a UK-wide update to the 2015 DECC Catalogue of Fuel Poverty and Health schemes in England covering England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and focusing on schemes that have successfully secured health funding and/or utilised evidence on the health impacts of affordable warmth interventions in innovative ways.

The report will identify:

parts of the health sector that are most engaged with the cold homes agenda;
which local partnerships have been most effective in leveraging finance and support from health bodies and why;
types of evidence that has secured engagement and buy-in from health partners; and
geographical and sector variance in health-sector funded work to tackle cold homes.

The report and catalogue will also identify and disseminate good practice, and give guidance on how fuel poverty scheme providers can evidence the case for heath sector investment and involvement.

The survey will take approximately 15 – 30 minutes to complete, and not all questions will be applicable to you. The majority of questions are a mixture of multiple choice options and drop-down menus, with some open-ended text boxes.

The survey can be accessed from https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/UnderOneRoofCFE

The deadline for completing the survey is Friday, 6 October 2017 at 4pm.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:40 pm

Surveys Archive • University of Oxford Social Housing Survey: Energy Refurbishment and Private Flat Owners

2017-04-06T10:17:09

Oxford University are conducting a survey into issues around working with private flat owners (leaseholders) on energy efficiency refurbishment of blocks of flats. ALEO believes this will add usefully to practical and legal knowledge around major refurbishments and would be grateful if members would complete this themselves or direct to colleagues working on social housing. The survey link is https://oxford.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/soci ... private-fl

The presence of private owners (leaseholders) in a block can sometimes make refurbishment difficult and the legal issues specifically in regard to energy improvements are complex. The challenges of working with private owners are likely to be a growing issue as social housing providers look to more ambitious retrofits to protect their tenants from fuel poverty in the long term.

Different staff from the same local authority are welcome to complete the survey, for example working in asset management or staff dealing with leaseholders/service charges.

This research has received ethics clearance from the University of Oxford and all responses will be anonymised.

The research has the potential to:

Help LAs and registered providers understand better how issues around lease terms affect energy efficiency and other refurbishment projects;
Identify how the law can be reformed to make it easier for council freeholders and private flat owners to work together to improve the energy efficiency of blocks of flats.

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:17 am

Surveys Archive • ALEO Members Survey 2017

2017-03-16T10:15:24

ALEO has opened its first members survey - available at the following link:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GFJ2DRY

The survey can be submitted by all ALEO members and associate members, in the public, private or third sectors with a remit for domestic energy efficiency, fuel poverty, climate change, or other related fields.

We would be very grateful if you could spend 10 minutes or so of your time to fill it in and submit your response. The questions are mainly multiple choice, although there are a some optional open questions.

Please submit your response by the deadline of 31 March 2017, although we would prefer to receive your response as soon as possible.

Many thanks for your help with this.

- ALEO National Secretariat

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:15 am

Surveys Archive • The Health of the Nation: analysis of cost effectiveness and success factors in health-related fuel poverty schemes

2016-09-30T11:25:52

SE2 Ltd and the London Borough of Lewisham are carrying out a research project to look at the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of fuel poverty referral schemes. The research is funded by Eaga Charitable Trust.

They have created an online survey and are interesting in hearing from fuel poverty scheme providers and managers.

There is significant evidence about the link between fuel poverty and health. However, there has been little research into the most effective ways to develop and deliver fuel poverty referral schemes.

“The Health of the Nation” research project will explore many aspects of fuel poverty schemes – from their objectives, to how they target support, to the services they provide, to their use of referral networks, to their costs – to try and tease out factors which make schemes more likely to operate successfully and to deliver value for money. We do not expect to find one answer; rather we hope that the research will illuminate a number of delivery and cost models which can provide useful insights to the sector and help inform future policy development.

You can find the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5K87ZHM

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:25 am

Surveys Archive • Survey on motivations for pursuing energy efficiency in the UK public sector

2016-08-25T13:45:50

Thomas Grome, of Cranfield University, is currently conducting a survey regarding motivations for pursuing energy efficiency in the UK public sector.

The survey takes only a few minutes to complete and respondents can choose to skip any questions. There is an option to leave contact details, should any respondents be willing to participate in a short interview.

The link to the survey is:
https://cranfielduniversity.eu.qualtric ... nmW4KoFCux

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Thu Aug 25, 2016 1:45 pm

Surveys Archive • Domestic energy efficiency – state of the nation survey 2016

2016-08-12T14:19:15

In a repeat of last year’s study on retrofit activity - the largest in the UK - this survey, being undertaken by The National Energy Foundation in partnership with Capita, the University of Salford and Customer Plus, is seeking your views of the opportunities, challenges and progress with energy efficiency retrofit across the UK social housing sector.

The survey will you take no more than 10 minutes to complete and participants will be entered into a prize draw to a win an iPad mini.

A succinct report of the trends and findings will be issued to all responding organisations.

To complete the survey, visit:
https://customerplus.eu.qualtrics.com/j ... byVeMLSRql

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:19 pm

Surveys Archive • NEA/NGN Survey on Gas Disconnection in Vulnerable Households

2016-06-22T09:56:57

National Energy Action (NEA) is running a survey on gas disconnection in vulnerable households, on behalf of Northern Gas Networks (NGN) - one of eight regional gas distribution networks (GDNs) in Great Britain.

The call for evidence seeks to collect information on current practice regarding what happens for a household when a gas engineer has to either disconnect or turn off an unsafe gas appliance from supply. For example, a gas boiler in the home. More information about this procedure is available at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/o ... 440_37.htm.

The call for evidence is part of a research project NEA is carrying out for NGN that is exploring what support can be made available for vulnerable households following disconnection of unsafe gas appliances. For example, facilitating access to a replacement gas appliance.

The survey is targeting individuals who either work in the gas industry or support and work with households who may have been impacted by a loss of heating or hot water due to an unsafe gas appliance, e.g. landlords, local authorities, community organisations etc.

The survey will close on Friday, 8 July 2016.

To respond, visit:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/HVDKD9G

Statistics:Posted by ALEO Admin — Wed Jun 22, 2016 9:56 am

Surveys Archive • Exploring the Features of Community Thermal Imaging Projects

2016-04-01T12:41:38

Exploring the features of Community Thermal Imaging Projects.

Researchers at Plymouth University in collaboration with the University of British Columbia are interested in learning from ALEO members. We are interested in hearing about projects which have used thermal imaging (infrared imaging) to promote energy efficiency amongst residents. We know that there have been some exemplar projects run around the UK and further afield and are very interested in your thoughts on both the technical aspects of thermal imaging and the motivational aspect. We would like to hear about projects where thermal images have been used to show residents or large communities the heat loss from their buildings/areas.

The survey asks about your experiences with thermal imaging projects, should take no more than 15 minutes and can be found here:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VBHYQWN

Thank you very much for your participation, your views are very important and will be used to inform others who wish to conduct similar projects.

If you wish to know more do not hesitate to contact julie.goodhew@plymouth.ac.uk

Statistics:Posted by eVizforcarbonred — Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:41 pm