The pilot being delivered by Graham, Kensa Contracting and Dodd Group will see schools benefit from new low carbon heating solutions, as well as improvements to the buildings fabric to make the school more thermally efficient.

DfE hopes the pilot will provide a valuable opportunity to learn more about alternative greener heating solutions and to use the learnings to consider how this can be scaled up to accelerate decarbonisation in the future.

Where necessary, the schools’ building fabric will be improved with upgrades ranging from new electrics, roofs and ceilings to new doors and windows amid a government drive to make educational buildings greener.

The contractors were appointed via Fusion21’s Decarbonisation and Heating & Renewables frameworks.