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Retrofit/Refurb
17 January 2012
A group of academics and industry professionals is urging Government to incentivise post-construction testing following recent research which found that new homes may not be meeting their energy design targets.
08 November 2011
Passivhaus and virtually everything to do with it - from engraining it in national policy to whether architects should love or hate PPHP - was brought into questioning at the second annual UK Passivhaus Conference held in London this month. Laura Day reports on day one.
08 November 2011
An extension designed for Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, west Lancashire, has been completed.
13 September 2011
A $1bn project to fit solar panels to military housing in the US has been announced.
12 September 2011
A new software package which tells installers the best kind of renewable technology to install for a particular area has been launched this month.
06 September 2011
An investment for design teams looking at strategies for low carbon buildings has been put forward, to aid in the development of resilience to climate change.
05 September 2011
Green Deal work undertaken by Birmingham City Council is to extend to non-domestic public buildings, spending £1.2bn on retrofitting over eight years.
02 September 2011
Voices from across the built heritage and conservation sector expressed concern in August at the lack of representation for old buildings within the terms of the Green Deal - the official drive to improve the energy performance of the nation’s buildings set to be launched next year.
02 September 2011
A Canadian energy efficiency retrofit program has been renewed by the government, which will allow homeowners to be eligible for home improvement grants until 21 March 2012.
02 September 2011
The Government has insulated over 2.6m homes in the UK across three years, under its national energy saving scheme.
02 September 2011
A survey of small and medium enterprises has revealed that while many are interested in energy efficiency and have made moves to implement such measures, a lack of information, cost and red tape are barriers to SMEs being able to take full advantage.
02 September 2011
Heritage body the Society for the Protection of Older Buildings (SPAB) and a number of organisations and individuals in the conservation sector, have called for Government to consider the needs of pre 1919 buildings under the Green Deal.
02 September 2011
Two former architecture students have established an organisation to help rebuild destroyed properties affected during the UK riots earlier in the month.
04 August 2011
London homes are to receive a free energy efficiency assessment following the expansion of the city’s RE:NEW programme.