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Introducing a toolkit for cultural change

denise7300
Oct 9
2 min read

The UK’s Transform-ER project introduces practical tools to build collaboration, tackle challenges, and drive impact in retrofit projects.

Cross-sector collaboration is key to catalysing home energy upgrades at scale. To address this, Energiesprong UK’s Transform-ER’ project is adopting an alliancing model – an approach where organisations share risks, rewards, and decision-making to drive down costs and improve delivery certainty. This model goes beyond contractual agreements; it demands cultural change that builds trust, aligns values, and sustains cooperation throughout complex projects.

Placing collaboration at the heart of the retrofit revolution

Transform-ER is a consortium of 13 industry experts with one mission: to create the systemic change needed to enable a retrofit industry that can deliver 1 million home energy upgrades every year by 2030. This included a focus on prototyping products and kits-of-parts and developing new digital pipeline assessment tools and finance mechanisms.

At it’s core, Transform-ER recognizes that retrofit at scale requires fundamental cultural change. Years of combined experience have shown that technical solutions fail without strong partnerships, financial models collapse when organisations can't align interests, and projects stall without trust and shared purpose.

Toolkit for nurturing collaboration

To support this cultural transformation, Energiesprong UK developed a collaboration framework and toolkit for the Transform-ER project. This toolkit is now being shared more broadly to help other retrofit project teams navigate complexity, build trust, and adopt collaborative mindsets. The toolkit consists of two key parts:

The Collaboration Framework: This outlines the key components of the approach, including insights from the team’s research.
The Four-Phase Culture Change Approach: From initial alignment to ongoing cooperation, this approach offers practical tools to tackle key challenges at each stage.

This toolkit views collaboration as a dynamic process that evolves over time, shaped by relationships and real-world pressures. It offers practical, adaptable tools for every project stage, helping teams build strong foundations, navigate tension, and sustain trust. Crucially, it makes visible the values, behaviors, and communication patterns that often determine whether true collaboration can emerge.