AI-powered project will help PRS landlords improve their properties

AI-powered project will help PRS landlords improve their properties

0:04 AM, 13th March 2024, About 2 months ago 1

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A new project aims to revolutionise the private rented sector (PRS) by using artificial intelligence (AI) to help landlords upgrade their properties.

The Let Zero project, funded by Innovate UK with £2.4 million, will develop an AI-powered solution to guide landlords on renovations that benefit tenants, particularly vulnerable residents.

The 18-month pilot project will focus on 200 homes in South Yorkshire where landlords will receive a ‘trusted path’ for upgrades, tailored to the specific needs of their tenants.

Those behind the scheme say it can be easily scaled up to help landlords around the country.

Create ‘warmer, healthier homes’ for tenants

Dr Ceri Batchelder is leading the project for the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA), and she says Let Zero will create ‘warmer, healthier homes’ for tenants.

She said: “It will improve conditions for private sector renters by supporting landlords to upgrade their properties through a retrofit and funding advice service.

“Working closely with our local authority partners, the team will reach out to landlords and showcase a range of options for housing improvements.”

Ms Batchelder added: “Our intent is to create warmer, healthier and more cost-effective homes and to establish a precedent for decarbonisation in the private rented sector.”

Creating ‘greener’ private rented housing

The project is a collaboration between 12 partners which will run from April to September 2025 to create ‘greener’ private rented housing.

Mike Pitts, of Innovate UK, said: “Innovate UK’s Net Zero Heat programme seeks to overcome barriers to innovation to enable the UK to prosper from moving quickly away from gas for heat in buildings.

“We’re really pleased that such promising ideas were developed through an intensive five-day workshop specifically designed to generate these kinds of high-potential projects.”

He added: “The participants are involved from all stages across the process of Net Zero Heat renovations of buildings, and they all seek to improve the process for different types of building with the aim of bringing down cost and speeding up retrofit work.”


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NewYorkie

11:22 AM, 13th March 2024, About 2 months ago

Ha! Ha! Don't need AI to tell me what's needed. Fix the EPC scheme, reduce the cost and improve the performance of heat pumps, reduce the cost of so-called 'green' materials, provide many more [properly] trained people to do the work, ensure tenants take responsibility for their causes and remediation of condensation and mould...

Another taxpayer-funded Net Zero farce jumping on the AI bandwagon.

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