Retrofit Accelerator with Imperial College London

Support for innovators decarbonising the built environment

Imperial College London is offering deep-dive intensive innovation support to deep tech built environment innovators, delivered through two cohorts of 10 small business beneficiaries in each group. 

Support provided to each cohort will be for 12 months, based on the diagnostic of need and agreed support plan. The support will be bespoke and delivered through one-to-one mechanisms, including advisors and innovation vouchers. This support will include facilitated introductions to demonstration sites to enable the supported businesses to showcase their innovations in a real world environment to drive confidence amongst both customers and investors.

We select a minimum of 10 SME start-ups and scale-up and provide them with mission lead, founder focused support.

Each cohort is connected with our corporate members and a number of other key project developers in our network.

Pilot Project

The programme also includes a Pilot Project, where SMEs from the cohorts will work with stakeholders from the building retrofit sector across London, who are important in enabling the uptake and use of new innovations. This engagement will identify, and seek to solve, sticking points in the implementation of the SME’s solutions. Stakeholders include policy makers, housing associations, architects, planners, engineering firms, project developers, house builders, intermediary federations, and community groups.  

These 'Pilot Projects’ will be a distinguishing feature of the programme, and aim to actively trial solutions via retrofit projects across London.

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Startups

The programme is for SME founders who are ready to implement their solutions and scale up their innovations across the built environment sector. Applications will open soon.

Stakeholders and partners

To enable this programme of work, we are looking for stakeholders in the built environment interested in joining us on the journey to unblock the implementation of climate change solutions in London’s built environment.

We are also looking for partners who are willing to use a building project as a frame for the actions of the cohort, and to demonstrate first-of-a-kind actions. 

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Our support

We provide bespoke mentoring options of innovation vouchers for direct work and collaboration with selected research academics, hackspace and maker space, internships, experts in residence and marketing support.

Event series

We run a facilitated cohort for participants and other key actors to identify challenges. 
Follow up activities and programme identification/design is also provided, including additional individual support

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