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Improving historic Soho’s environmental performance: Practical retrofitting guidance
Posted on: 5 August 2013
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This guidance, commissioned by Westminster City Council and its partners English Heritage and Soho Community Environment Fund, considers the opportunities and challenges of retrofitting in this context through four stages: case studies, ‘The Elemental Approach’, building typology and community based interventions.
FutureFit Final Report Part 2. An insight into the retrofit challenge for social housing
Posted on: 25 July 2013
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Leading affordable housing association Affinity Sutton has launched the final findings of FutureFit, its pioneering retrofit project. FutureFit is helping Affinity Sutton develop an informed, well-formulated policy on energy efficiency in existing homes, to reduce fuel poverty and inform the wider debate on carbon targets. The first FutureFit report showed us how difficult it can be to engage people on energy efficiency and the higher than anticipated costs to install works. It also showed us how well positioned the social housing sector could be to deliver wide-scale retrofit. This second stage report highlights similar pitfalls and benefits with retrofit. On the one hand it confirms the unpredictability of an individual household’s energy consumption and the challenge in tracking how much energy anyone actually uses from one year to the next. It also flags the potentially serious consequences of using the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) as a modelling tool for retrofit in existing homes. The study also considers the implications for financing retrofit measures via Green Deal for Affinity Sutton housing stock.
Achieving resource efficiency in refurbishment projects. London, 12 June 2013
Posted on: 16 July 2013
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This event provided an opportunity for surveyors and their clients in maximizing the efficiency of refurbishment projects. Webcasts are available online.
Retrofit incentives
Posted on: 11 July 2013
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This report produced by the Retrofit Incentives Task Group examines financial incentives to increase the uptake of domestic energy efficiency measures. It outlines proposals for the three most promising incentives – variable Stamp Duty, variable Council Tax and an Energy Efficiency Feed-in-Tariff – and includes economic analysis of their potential impacts.
Relish: Residents 4 Low Impact Sustainable Homes
Posted on: 14 June 2013
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The purpose of this project is to reduce energy use in existing occupied homes through low cost, sensible refurbishments giving maximum return, in terms of energy savings, per pound spent. Our ambition is to create a new standard for low carbon retrofitting, similar to the Code for Sustainable Homes, which has brought about major changes in the new build sector since its implementation. A recent report tracks the progress of the last 14 months, where the Relish team have been busy implementing Relish principles and collating information and results from a much larger project than in stage one.
Residents 4 Low Impact Sustainable Homes
Posted on: 2 May 2013
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The Relish (Residents 4 Low Impact Sustainable Homes) initiative was launched in March 2009 by Worthing Homes, FFT and Rydon. The purpose of this project is to reduce energy use in existing occupied homes through low cost, sensible refurbishments giving maximum return, in terms of energy savings, per pound spent. The ambition is to create a new standard for low carbon retrofitting, similar to the Code for Sustainable Homes, which has brought about major changes in the new build sector since its implementation.
Retrofitting our way out of recession
Posted on: 24 April 2013
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The URBACT “Building Energy Efficiency in European Cities” workstream has been set up to examine the role of city public authorities for energy efficient urban communities through retrofitting in the building sector. This article, written by Paul Ciniglio, Sustainability Strategist and Antonio Borghi, Lead Expert of the URBACT Project presents the first findings of their work.
Sustainability: Improving performance in existing buildings
Posted on: 11 April 2013
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This report, available from the RICS Bookshop, outlines a road map for integrating sustainability into existing buildings and aims to assist building surveyors in explaining the appropriate options available to clients. The guidance covers the following areas: initial appraisal; metrics, benchmarking and standards; concept design; detailed design and implementation; and completion (in use). Price £20
Sustainable refurbishment: a toolkit for going green
Posted on: 10 April 2013
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This guide is designed for building owners who may be contemplating renovating their property, either in part or in whole, who want to be able to improve the environmental performance of their building but are not quite sure where to start or what to prioritise first. While this toolkit is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to retrofitting your property, we hope that both you and your appointed consultants will find it helpful in assessing your options and opportunities.
Ecobuild. London, 5-7 March 2013
Posted on: 26 March 2013
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Ecobuild is described as the world’s biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment. Conference presentations are available under the following headings: Making sustsinable construction happen; Beyond construction; Design, architecture and sustainability; Sustainable property; Sustainability overseas. Seminar presentations are also available under the following headings: Sustainable self-build and renovation; Buildings in use; Water, waste and materials; Delivering sustainability in the city; Passivhaus; Whole life carbon and other impacts; Refurbishing Britain; Property; Sustainable by design; Rules and Regulations; Green energy; and BIM. You need to register on the site to view the presentations.
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