30 November 2007
Transport and Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson wants Scottish homes to match Scandinavia.
31 October 2007
Communities minister Iain Wright has described the energy performance effects of home information packs as extremely encouraging.
31 October 2007
The East of England Regional Assembly has suggested the Government replaces its “eco-towns” approach with an “eco-neighbourhoods” drive.
30 September 2007
Eighty four per cent of construction professionals think that the construction industry does not understand the Government’s Part L legislation.
30 September 2007
The UK Green Building Council has announced a review of the BREEAM environmental system.
30 September 2007
Wales’s Auditor General Jeremy Colman said no Welsh local authority will come close to cutting energy use by a third - a target set by the Home Energy Conservation Act over 10 years ago.
31 August 2007
A new generation of ambitious projects is aiming for full sustainability and nothing short of a revolution in green design in North America. Dr Paul K Hatchwell reports.
30 July 2007
DCLG is consulting on plans to make the Code for Sustainable Homes rating for mandatory for new homes.
30 July 2007
The Government has announced it will amend building regulations next year to set a whole building performance for water efficiency of 125l/p/d 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.