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Achieving zero: Delivering future-friendly buildings
Posted on: 25 January 2012
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Oxford University’s Environment Change Institute has published a report which provides the policy framework to ensure that all energy use in all buildings in the whole UK results in zero carbon emissions by 2050. This covers 26 million homes and 2 million business (ie non-domestic) properties. The strategy builds on two sets of natural divisions at the level of an individual property: the different roles of the building owner and the building occupant; and the energy use that results from the characteristics of the building (mainly gas for space and water heating, but including electricity in fixed lighting) and the energy use that results from the behaviour of the occupant, including the use of the contents of the building (mainly electricity for appliances and equipment).
Making the Green Deal a fair deal. London, 29 November 2011
Posted on: 23 January 2012
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This event was held to consider: what local councils need to do to ensure their residents and businesses benefit from the Green Deal; their role on the process; and how the Green Deal will work. Presentations from the event are available online.
Retrofit Guides
Posted on: 19 January 2012
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To explore the business opportunities emerging from the low carbon building and retrofit market, the Institute for Sustainability has produced a series of ‘Building Opportunities for Business’ Retrofit Guides. The guides draw on leading academic and industry experts and provide practical and commercially focused advice and best practice to both trades and professions including architects, surveyors, builders, project managers, plumbers and electricians. The guides are: 1: Introduction; 2: Surveying and assessing buildings for low carbon retrofit; 3: Planning low carbon retrofit projects; 4: Funding and procurement for low carbon retrofit projects; 5: Managing low carbon retrofit projects; 6: Improving the building fabric; 7: Improving the building services; 8: Green retrofit; 9: Living in a low carbon home; 10: Identifying opportunities and promoting low carbon retrofit; 11: Promotion programmes for low carbon retrofit; 12: Skills, training and accreditation.
Getting a good deal from the Green Deal: Views from local communities
Posted on: 19 January 2012
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This document from the Green Alliance presents the conclusions from three workshops held in late 2011 with coalition MPs and local stakeholders. These workshops, held under our Climate Leadership Programme, discussed opportunities for the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) to enhance local energy saving, views on the existing policy design and how the schemes could be improved. The report concludes that there are a number of hurdles to overcome before this policy can really deliver on its promise. Five strong messages that emerged from the workshops are detailed in the report, highlighting necessary requirements for success: help to encourage take-up; give more support to the fuel poor; make sure local economies benefit; spread the message; and help to drive real demand reduction.
GHA Monitoring Programme 2009-11: Technical report. Results from Phase 1: Post-construction testing of a sample of highly sustainable new homes
Posted on: 9 January 2012
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The Good Homes Alliance, a group of developers, academics and other professionals, has measured the fabric performance and heat loss of four energy efficient homes after construction. This study, backed by the Energy Saving Trust and the Department for Communities and Local Government, found all four buildings had a heat loss of 14 per cent higher than designed, although they all performed better than the building regulations design targets they were required to meet at the time of planning approval. The GHA makes a number of recommendations, including: The house building industry undertakes fabric heat loss testing of a sample of all new homes built; the government should encourage and incentivise the industry to gather evidence about the fabric performance of new homes; and the government works with the industry to develop a national feedback and learning programme, including training around heat loss.
Fire performance of new residential buildings
Posted on: 16 December 2011
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An increasing number of residential buildings are being constructed using non-traditional methods, mainly with the aim of improving construction efficiency and energy performance. But could the greater use of thermal insulating products, some of which are combustible, make buildings more susceptible to fire damage? A new NHBC Foundation guide provides information on the risks and best practice guidance for designers, builders and those involved in the fire safety of new homes.
The Carbon Plan. Delivering our low carbon future
Posted on: 9 December 2011
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The Government has published plans for achieving the emissions reductions committed to in the first four carbon budgets, on a pathway consistent with meeting the 2050 target. This publication brings together the Government’s strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions and deliver our climate change targets, as well as the updated version of our actions and milestones for the next five years.
Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation
Posted on: 8 December 2011
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A series of WHO policy briefings on the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation summarises initial key findings and identifies expected health impacts from policies to mitigate climate change in the housing, transport, household energy and the health sector. The briefings focus on the mitigation policies reviewed in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and propose important health co-benefits for consideration in the next round of IPCC mitigation reviews in preparation of the Fifth Assessment Report.
Be lean, be green: Energy efficiency and cost saving in private residential properties. London, 7 December 2011
Posted on: 7 December 2011
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Sustain held this event in order to introduce private landlords to the Green Deal due to be launched in 2012, and the accompanying Energy Company Obligation (ECO). In addition, Sustain highlighted the support currently available for energy efficiency improvements, including grant funding. The event was supported by the Department of Energy and Climate Change with Emma Bulmer giving the Government’s perspective. Presentations are available online.
The Retrofit Challenge: Delivering low carbon buildings
Posted on: 6 December 2011
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This report acknowledges that government policies such as the Green Deal, Renewable Heat Incentive, and Carbon Reduction Commitment have encouraged some businesses and households to improve with the energy efficiency of their buildings, but argues that more urgency is needed if the UK is to achieve an 80 per cent cut in emissions by 2050.
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