Carbon emissions, being hazardous, are triggering social concerns which have led to the creation of international treaties to address climate change. Similarly, the United Kingdom under the Climate Change Act (2008) has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emission by at least 80% over 1990 levels by 2050. However, being the oldest member of the EU states (before Brexit), the UK has the oldest housing stock, which contributes to 45% of its carbon emissions due to the older dwellings. To address this issue low carbon retrofitting is needed. Therefore, this paper seeks to investigate the barriers and enablers to energy efficiency retrofitting in social housing in London, UK based on the perception of experts employed in National and construction companies with an experience that ranges between 6 to 16 years. Initial literature suggested that the problem of energy efficiency retrofitting in the general building stock has been addressed, however little has been reported on its application to social housing. This paper, therefore, groups the barriers and enablers into seven categories that include: financial matters, Technical, IT, Government policy and regulation, social factors (including awareness of the energy efficiency agenda), quality of workmanship and disruption to residents, using literature review, interviews and surveys with key stakeholders within the housing sector, and draws recommendations to enable effective and efficient retrofitting for social housing projects.

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伦敦社会住房能源效率改造的障碍和推动因素调查

碳排放具有危害性，引发了社会关注，导致建立了应对气候变化的国际条约。同样，英国根据《气候变化法》（2008年）承诺到2050年将其温室气体排放量比1990年的水平至少减少80％。但是，作为欧盟成员国中最古老的成员国（英国退欧之前），英国最古老的住房，由于住房较旧，其碳排放量占其总排放量的45％。为了解决这个问题，需要进行低碳改造。因此，本文试图根据在国家伦敦和建筑公司受雇的经验在6到16年之间的专家的看法，调查英国伦敦社会住房的节能改造的障碍和促成因素。最初的文献表明，已经解决了一般建筑房屋中的节能改造问题，但是关于将其应用于社会住房的报道很少。因此，本文将障碍和促成因素分为七个类别，包括：财务事项，技术，信息技术，政府政策和法规，社会因素（包括对能效议程的认识），工艺质量和对居民的干扰（使用文献）与住房部门的主要利益相关者进行审查，访谈和调查，并提出建议，以实现对社会住房项目的有效改造。