Social Housing Energy Efficiency and Health Risks

Stop guessing what’s wrong with your buildings. Whether you’re tackling retrofit works, heating complaints, or chasing ROI, our tools give you fast, actionable insights with minimal disruption.

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Fuel poverty and health issues associated with badly insulated social housing can lead to poor mental health and physical wellbeing as well as decreased life expectancy

Managing multiple properties means constant firefighting: overheating homes, cold bedrooms, energy complaints, or retrofit upgrades that don’t deliver. Combine that with balancing compliance pressures, resident expectations, budget constraints, and the constant need to prioritise works based on real performance, rather than on assumptions, and things can quickly feel unmanageable.

Most building data is fragmented, outdated, or modelled rather than measured. That leaves you making high-value decisions on incomplete information: investing in upgrades that may not address the root cause, responding to recurring comfort complaints without clarity, or approving retrofit plans that rely on assumptions about heat loss, ventilation, or system performance.

Build Test Solutions changes that.

Our measurement technologies provide a clear, evidence-based understanding of how your buildings actually perform.

From identifying poor fabric efficiency to validating retrofit outcomes, diagnosing heating issues, or verifying EPC improvements, you gain robust data you can act on immediately, without intrusive testing or lengthy project delays.

Non-disruptive, fast, accurate results

The tools are fast, cost-effective, and simple to deploy across individual homes or entire portfolios. Results integrate seamlessly into asset management workflows, giving your teams and contractors the confidence to plan interventions, allocate budgets, and measure progress against organisational targets.

With Build Test Solutions, you reduce risk, avoid unnecessary works, and ensure every investment is backed by trustworthy performance insights. The result is clearer decision-making, improved resident outcomes, and a more resilient, compliant, and efficient building stock.

The Build Test Solutions difference

5 benefits of working with BTS for property owners and housing providers
  • Save money: avoid unnecessary or ineffective upgrades
  • Increase tenant satisfaction: fix comfort issues right the first time
  • Stay accountable: use data to demonstrate improvements
  • Reduce disruption: run tests during normal occupancy
Using BTS sensors has given my clients confidence in the accuracy of heat loss data. It’s helped me design the right systems, cut costs, and support the transition away from fossil fuels. - Energy Assessor, UK Housing Projects

Energy assessment solutions for housing providers

Our portfolio of building performance solutions can help housing providers to measure the energy efficiency of their property stock quickly and cost effectively.

Temperature sensors

SmartHTC Measured Thermal Performance

A low-cost and non-invasive way of measuring the true thermal performance of a building. It requires temperature and meter data to calculate an accurate heat loss rating over a 3-week period.

Learn more about SmartHTC Measured Thermal Performance
Pulse air receiver, controller and compressor

Pulse Air Permeability Testing

A pioneering approach to fabric air permeability measurement that releases a low-pressure pulse of air for realistic and accurate measurement of airtightness of buildings in seconds.

Learn more about Pulse Air Permeability Testing

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