Whole Life Consultants Ltd has been referenced in the Scottish Parliament during a debate on Scotland’s economy and the future of the energy sector.
The debate highlighted WLC’s retrofit workforce modelling for Dundee, which showed that delivering the city’s required retrofit interventions would take around 15,990 person-years of work and could support around 1,600 people each year across skilled trades, technical roles and professional services.
The scale was captured memorably in Parliament: if MSPs had to deliver Dundee’s retrofit interventions themselves, it would take them 120 years — and probably longer, given the specialist skills required.
Behind the humour is a serious delivery question.
Retrofit is often discussed through targets, funding and technology. All matter. But ambition only becomes delivery when the workforce exists to make it happen.
WLC’s Low-Carbon Retrofit Labour Forecasting Tool helps local authorities understand what that means in practice. It translates retrofit need into occupation-specific labour forecasts, showing which trades are required, how much labour is needed, when demand may peak, and where skills pressures could affect delivery.
This evidence matters because retrofit is not delivered by policy alone. It is delivered by people: installers, electricians, plumbers, joiners, surveyors, retrofit coordinators, project managers and the wider teams needed to plan and manage work at scale.
Many councils and regions now have retrofit programmes.
Do they have the workforce plan to deliver them?
Find out more
Read the Scottish Parliament Official Report
Read more about WLC’s Low-Carbon Retrofit Labour Forecasting Tool
Request a sample report
To see what this type of analysis could show for your area, request a free sample retrofit workforce report or arrange a short discussion about labour demand forecasting for your council, region or public body.
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