30 July 2007
DCLG is consulting on plans to make the Code for Sustainable Homes rating for mandatory for new homes.
30 July 2007
DCLG has set out the changes to building regulations that “seem likely” to be required to meet its aspiration for new homes to be zero carbon by 2016.
29 February 2008
Only six households have benefitted to date from the stamp duty rebate for eco-homes announced in Budget 2007, according to figures provided in written answers last month to Conservative communities spokesmen Eric Pickles and Robert Neil by Financial Secretary to the Treasury Jane Kennedy.
29 February 2008
Formal hearings are being instigated by the European Commission to sound out opinions and proposals about uprating the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).
22 January 2008
The Government-sponsored Technology Strategy Board
30 November 2007
The Government is pressing the case for the need for EPCs and HIPs)with the publication of the first data from the assessments.
30 November 2007
BRE is likely to add another rating to BREEAM system which will be higher than the current top grade – “excellent”.
30 November 2007
Transport and Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson wants Scottish homes to match Scandinavia.
30 November 2007
CABE) wants the government to enshrine its Building for Life standard into the planning system by 2008.
30 November 2007
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), based at Loughborough University aims to develop ways to cut carbon dioxide emissions.