Two years ago, my guest on
The Infrastructure Podcast this week quit her successful career as a partner at global consultant
McKinsey & Company to launch a fledgling business aimed at tackling the UK’s woefully underperforming housing retrofit market.
A bold move! Yet two years later @Anna Moore, co-founder and chief executive of
Domna (formerly Hestia) has just secured a new £70M tranche of funding which should accelerate the business' ability to access this potential £500bn retrofit market and truly transform homes and lives by making tens of thousands of homes across the UK warmer, more energy efficient and healthier places to live.
Have a listen at
here and on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and all your favourite podcast hosts.
Anna works with me as a Trustee of the Built Environment Trust and
Building Centre, and as our recent New Homes in New Ways event demonstrated, giving families decent warm safe places to live is one the biggest challenges facing the UK right now.
It's a tough market. Because, as Anna knows I am sure, while the government’s commitment to building 1.5 million new homes continues to grab the headlines as the key to driving up living standards and revitalising communities, the need to retrofit our huge existing stock has been left somewhat overlooked as a means to press decent housing back into the market.
But Anna and Domna are on a roll and now retrofit over 15,000 homes a year on behalf of local authorities, housing associations and private landlords. And it’s an approach which is changing lives.
Have a listen.
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