Entries for April 2010

DECC sets up research programme providing support to 22 communities to cut carbon emissions 
 

By 2009 the total number of filled cavities was taken to over 10.5m leaving an estimated 2.9m homes with cavities considered practical to fill

Details of total spend to date on Warm Front pilots revealed by DECC

Around 950,000 homes and businesses register to receive warnings from the Environment Agency's Floodline Warnings Direct

Communities minister Ian Austin has published the number and proportion of properties on the non-domestic EPC register

Two regional development agencies have called for housing associations to join together to access £42m for retrofitting

The world’s tallest building has launched a thermal energy initiative to use solar power to meet a bulk of its water heating requirements

RIBA has called for UK parliamentary candidates to sign up to its manifesto, containing sustainable building and built environment policies

BASF is taking its demonstrator Mobile Energy-Saving House on a tour to demonstrate passiv haus technology

British Gas has announced that it will install two million smart meters in customers’ homes by 2012, well ahead of the Government’s 2020 target for domestic users

A RIBA competition to explore the development possibilities of London’s forgotten spaces has produced a shortlist of 19 schemes from among 150 entries

A survey has suggested that the construction sector finally emerged from recession last month, after two years of decline

Large wind energy companies have warned that feed-in tariffs could act as a ‘Trojan horse’ that would endanger the wider green energy sector

A Bradford community group has been awarded more than £1m towards a project to create an eco-friendly enterprise centre on a brownfield site

Newcastle-based GB Building Solutions has been awarded a contract to build the first apartment block at RiversideOne