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Archetyping for retrofit: Best practice methodology

Archetyping is a well-used and powerful tool to understand or segment a building stock. This document will help those identifying archetypes, and designing retrofit interventions based on archetypes, to produce good quality results, fit for their specific use case.

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Smart Client

Good practice

Provided by: National Retrofit Hub

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Building surveys and asset registers Domestic retrofit measures

The Best Practice Methodology provides guidance for Retrofit designers looking to produce archetype retrofit guidance for buildings under consideration, and building owners or others looking to procure the identification of archetypes and associated retrofit guidance.

This document allows users to identify and create guidance for retrofit archetypes, using a risk managed, holistic approach, designed to protect building users. We hope that by releasing this Best Practice Methodology, we can initiate the creation of more, and better guidance and engagement tools, by the industry.

This document is for:

Retrofit designers looking to produce archetype retrofit guidance for
buildings under consideration
Building owners or others looking to procure the identification of
archetypes and associated retrofit guidance

Archetype guidance should not be:

Interpreted as a complete solution
Used to procure construction works
Assumed to perfectly suit each building exemplified by an archetype

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