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Housing
17 January 2012
Scottish councils are to remain as the sole verifier of new homes and buildings in the country, a recent consultation has decided.
17 January 2012
A housing development in Castleford has been awarded a post-construction certificate for its Code Level 6 performance, as of December 2011.
17 January 2012
The shortlist of finalists in the running to design a Passivhaus demonstration project for BRE Watford and Ravenscraig have been named this month.
06 December 2011
Camden Council has reduced its carbon footprint by 9% according to figures released for 2010/11, as part of the national 10:10 Campaign.
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.
17 January 2012
Two energy efficient developments aimed at tackling low housing demand have been completed in Barnsley.
17 January 2012
New powers introduced in December will allow the Welsh Government sole responsibility for building regulations in Wales after having previously being held by the UK Government.
06 December 2011
A private home development in South East London has begun construction, and aims to achieve a Level 5 rating of the Code for Sustainable Homes, and incorporate Passivhaus principles.
18 November 2011
BRE and the International Passivhaus Association have joined together and launched a competition to design two Passivhaus homes on site at the BRE Innovation Parks in Watford and Scotland.
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.
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.
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.