Government Overview
What Government Would Get
Infrastructure, not another scheme. BuildROI would sit between homeowners, builders and compliance, producing evidence so that existing policy investment can be judged on data.
🏠 Retrofit Quality
Photo evidence at every stage, taken by an independent Project Manager. Building Control requirements flagged and certificates stored. Less "trust me".
💷 Builder Pensions
Nothing is paid in the pilot. It records builders' interest in a pension, so any incentive can be designed on evidence.
🛠️ Skills Transition
Ex-builders working as Project Managers and mentors, with a trail of performance data to support succession planning.
✅ Compliance
Health and safety, Building Control and escrow documented, and designed to be audit-ready from day one.
Where BuildROI Would Create Audit-Ready Records
Before the project
- Builder credentials: insurance, CIS and VAT registration and health and safety policy checked before any work begins.
- Homeowner identity: the escrow provider verifies identity and bank details, for anti-fraud and anti-money-laundering compliance.
- Property risk screening: the age and type of the property trigger asbestos, party-wall and structural checks where needed.
During the work
- Daily site diary: who is on site, hours and blockers, as a record for resolving disputes.
- Hold-point checks: quality checks at critical stages before work is covered up, with photo evidence taken by the PM.
- Health and safety: RAMS uploaded, inductions logged, RIDDOR and COSHH registers kept.
- Variations: changes within an agreed tolerance are approved by the PM and reported to the homeowner straight away. Anything beyond it, or any change the homeowner asks for, needs the homeowner's signature.
At completion
- Commissioning tests: RCD tests, ventilation flow and appliance documentation.
- Building Control: requirements flagged early, inspections coordinated and certificates stored.
- Retrofit measures recorded: type, quantity and EPC impact where known, for policy reporting.
- Digital archive: the evidence pack is hashed and stored against the property, as a permanent audit trail.
Policy Priorities BuildROI Speaks To
1. Quality of work and consumer protection
The problem: government says more than one in four UK adults who had home improvements done in the past 18 months experienced problems, and estimates that people lost over £10.3 billion on home and garden maintenance in 2024 through losses, overpriced work or unfair practices (a survey-based estimate with a wide margin of error).
What the pilot would test: whether independent verification, evidence on payment and hold-point checks reduce disputes and defects, and whether the evidence is good enough to rely on.
2. Retrofit and net zero
The problem: confidence in the quality of retrofit work matters for delivery. The Chartered Trading Standards Institute has warned that publicly funded schemes such as the Warm Homes Plan can give fraudulent traders an opportunity.
What the pilot would test: whether photo evidence of each measure, with EPC impact recorded, gives government reportable, auditable progress.
3. Builder pensions
The problem: many self-employed builders have little or no pension.
What the pilot would test: how many builders want a pension, and what would make it worth their while. Nothing is paid in the pilot.
4. Skills and succession
The problem: many experienced tradespeople are approaching retirement, and their knowledge is hard to hand on.
What the pilot would test: whether ex-builders can work as Project Managers and mentors, and what the performance data shows about where each is strongest.
Sources: UK Government, 28 August 2026; CTSI; Consumer Detriment Survey 2024 (CMA/NatCen).
What Would Be Reported
Government would receive the independent evaluator's report and BuildROI's own Pilot Outcome Report. Between them, they would cover:
- Each project: completion rate, time to completion, cost against estimate, snag count, rework incidents, homeowner satisfaction, builder quality rating, health and safety incidents, and Building Control pass or fail.
- Retrofit measures: type installed, EPC ratings before and after where known, installation quality, compliance with standards such as PAS 2035 and MCS, and cost per tonne of CO₂e saved.
- The workforce: ex-builders working as Project Managers, the succession pipeline, and builders' interest in a pension.
- System health: dispute rates, payment release speed, quality failure rates, compliance issues and satisfaction trends.
The Pilot in Brief
Six months, a mixed set of up to 50 jobs (MMC, retrofit and renovation, and traditional or larger builds), independent Project Manager verification at every milestone, and an independent evaluator chosen and paid by government. The pilot starts only once the jobs are confirmed. If the evidence says no, it stops.
See the full ask on the For Government page →Why This Could Work
Evidence before expansion. Each phase only proceeds if the one before it justifies it.
Prevention over cure. The idea is that quality verified up front costs less than putting problems right afterwards. The pilot would test this.
A self-improving system. Good builders should get more work, and poor practice should be easier to spot. The pilot would test whether that happens.
Audit-ready by design. Every project would generate evidence that supports Building Control, health and safety and policy reporting. Personal data would be handled under data protection law, with legal review.
Useful across government. The same evidence could inform retrofit, housing, pensions, trade and safety policy.
🏛️ See the Illustrative Analytics Pack
A specimen report showing what government would receive from a funded pilot. It is built on modelled figures and market cost research, not on completed projects, and it exists to show what the real version would look like.
View the Illustrative Analytics Pack (PDF) →