31 July 2008
The Zero Carbon Hub recommended in the Calcutt Review to try to make sense of the "zero carbon homes" aspiration has begun work with UK Green Building Council...
31 July 2008
Disjointed policy and weak enforcement risk damaging the credibility of the Government’s ambitious targets for low-carbon buildings...
31 July 2008
Construction is key to the long-term objective of making the UK a low-carbon society, with buildings accounting for around half of greenhouse gas emissions...
31 July 2008
The Government has promised more effective financial support for small-scale renewable energy technologies in buildings and planning changes to help deliver them in its new UK Renewable Energy Strategy.
31 July 2008
Housing minister Caroline Flint has published a progress report* on the Government’s eco towns plans, including
what CLG dub the UK’s "toughest ever green standards for new housing".
31 July 2008
DEFRA is setting up systems which aim to give consumers and businesses information on what benefits their green energy tariffs actually deliver over and above the supplier’s existing legal obligation to supply electricity from renewable sources.
30 June 2008
It would cost £9.2bn to eliminate fuel poverty from all but the poorest households in England according to new research published by the Eaga Partnership Charitable Trust.
30 June 2008
“Building brand new eco-towns outside existing towns and cities is a really bad idea when there are 675,000 homes in England alone sitting empty and ripe for refitting with green technologies. Given that demand for housing is right across the UK it makes more sense for every village, town and city to have new housing rather than creating brand new settlements,” Brian Berry, director of external affairs, Federation of Master Builders, 22 May
30 June 2008
Despite a growing emphasis on sustainable building in the construction industry, now rapidly becoming mainstream through revised and new Government planning policies, regulatory reforms and Government-backed initiatives such as BREEAM, Dr Paul K Hatchwell finds little hard data on how well these changes are reflected in actual building performance.
30 June 2008
A pressure group associated with Labour has published a new policy briefing backing the roll-out of decentralized distributed energy systems.