SPRUCE RETROFIT CONSULTANCY

Making homes more energy efficient and comfortable

Spruce is a specialist consultancy providing expert advice on retrofitting homes to make them more energy efficient and comfortable. We also provide Passivhaus Consultancy and Certification for residential and small commercial projects.
We are led by Dr Sarah Price, a highly experienced building physicist with a keen interest in all things retrofit. Our goal is to inspire and accelerate best-practice, energy-efficient retrofit in the UK so that our homes are healthy to live in and affordable to run and maintain.

Dr Sarah Price MSci CEng MIOP

Sarah has extensive experience in Passivhaus and AECB consultancy and is a Passivhaus and AECB Certifier. She has worked on over 90 certified Passivhaus dwellings across the country, and has dabbled in Passivhaus leisure centres, student accommodation, schools and more!

She also works with the Government, BSI and other organisations to create domestic retrofit standards, guidance and training. She is a member of the Retrofit Steering Task Group set up after the Each Home Counts review, and is the technical author for the PAS 2035/2030 retrofit standard.

Dr Sarah Price works closely with the Leeds Sustainability Institute at Leeds Beckett University to further research in building performance evaluation and retrofit.