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Sustainable Building is a new newsletter on energy efficiency and green building. Every month it will give you news, features on using renewable energy, analysis of energy policy, a legislation tracker and case studies of good practice. Further information: Click here.


Lead Articles
A mandatory Code for Sustainable Homes?
DCLG is consulting on plans to make the Code for Sustainable Homes rating for mandatory for new homes.
Zero carbon home performance
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.

Latest Articles
Green stamp duty rebate helps just six

Only six households have benefitted to date from the stamp duty rebate for eco-homes announced in Budget 2007, according to figures provided in written answers last month to Conservative communities spokesmen Eric Pickles and Robert Neil by  Financial Secretary to the Treasury Jane Kennedy.

EC aims to tighten Energy Performance Directive

Formal hearings are being instigated by the European Commission to sound out opinions and proposals about uprating the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).

More efficient lighting

The Government-sponsored Technology Strategy Board

Larger homes get poor energy ratings

The Government is pressing the case for the need for EPCs and HIPs)with the publication of the first data from the assessments.

BREEAM to get higher top grade

BRE is likely to add another rating to BREEAM system which will be higher than the current top grade – “excellent”.

Scots aim for Scandinavian standards

Transport and Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson wants Scottish homes to match Scandinavia.



The Earth house


Latest Features
Conservatives up the ante on low carbon buildings

The Conservative Party Quality of Life Policy Group has released its much awaited findings with implications for the sustainable building industry.

Cushioning climatic effects

Stretched foils provide the key to this new low carbon college building in Glasgow. Ben Kochan reports



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