Su Butcher has posted an excellent and very useful comment on PassivHaus being about saving energy over on her blog, Just Practicing. I did comment there in brief but here is a more detailed response.
Relationship with Code 6 and Carbon Definition As was reported from the Zero Hub consultation Passiv Haus is the aspirational target of the UK [...]
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on passivhaus challenges
Posted in comment, energy, housing, sustainability, tagged eco homes, passivhaus on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
defining zero carbon – more clarifications (for homes at least)
Posted in comment, greenwashing, housing, legislation, links, route2zero, sustainability, technology, tagged code level 6, Twitter, zero carbon, zero carbon hub on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Wednesday I sat in on a Zero Carbon Hub consultation event relating to the defining-zero-carbon-homes-presentation2zero carbon definition for buildings. I did manage to send some tweets via twitter during the session, and here, I have pulled these together to give a view on the consultation paper.
The event was not quite what I was expecting, as [...]
sustainable resources and publications update
Posted in built environment, carbon, construction, education, green business, housing, improvement, links, politics, resilience, schools, sustainability, tagged Climate Change, fuel poverty, green collar economy, SRDN, sustainable communities, zero carbon on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Items of interest to built environment + natural environment + sustainable communities filtered from the Sustainability Development Research Network (SDRN) update
Engaging Places
A new initiative has been launched by CABE and English Heritage to help every school exploit the world’s biggest teaching resource; ‘Engaging Places’ will champion and support teaching and learning through the whole built [...]
zero carbon definition
Posted in News, built environment, carbon, green buildings, housing, links, sustainability on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Climate Change and Sustainable Development Team at the Department for Communities and Local Government have launched the consultation on the definition of zero carbon homes and non-domestic buildings.
see the press notice at http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1101131.
They are interested in views on the definition of zero carbon homes and non-domestic buildings – consultation closes on Wednesday 18 [...]
smart sustainable homes?
Posted in carbon, comment, housing, links, tagged be2camp, Code for Sustainable Homes, BRE, CSH, homecamp on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading the BRE Smart Home Systems and the Code for Sustainable Homes published from ibexellence and available from their site (thanks for the info on this from Derek over at Keeping Ahead of the Oil Curve
The objective of this report is to identify the role smart home solutions could play in supporting delivery [...]
are EPC’s working
Posted in blogs, comment, housing, sustainability, tagged energy performance certificates, EPC, They Work for Us on November 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Fellow bloggers Phil at ZeroChampion and Adrian at McFilter have commented recently on the feedback from their EPC (Energy Performance Certificates) assessments and made the observation that the recommendations do nothing more than suggest low energy lighting. I hear the same from friends who have undertaken EPC’s recently and asked me what can they [...]
on low carbon existing homes
Posted in housing, refurbishment, sustainability, tagged Axis Design Architects, ECD, eco-terrace, existing homes on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Currently reading around the greening of existing homes, the following links are of interest and indicate the way forward perhaps:
Rob ’s Axis Design Architects award winning eco terrace in Newcastle-Under-Lyme that demonstrates how existing Victorian terrace properties can be refurbished to today’s housing standards.
ECD’s Terraced house refurbishment, Mottingham, London considered use of products should [...]
on low-carbon existing homes
Posted in housing, links, sustainability, tagged low carbon, UKGBC on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the UKGBC website, will comment when I have time to digest!
UK-GBC Releases new report
Report submitted to Government 13/1008
After a summer of stakeholder engagement, including a ‘webinar’- an online seminar – which attracted around 100 participants, the report on Low Carbon Existing Homes has been submitted to Government this morning and is available to [...]
pPod – a new housing carbon challenge
Posted in News, green buildings, housing, sustainability, tagged BREEAM Excellent, BREEAM Outsanding, carbon challenge, Code for Sustainable Homes, code level 6, English Partnerships, Hanham Hall, Peterborough, pPod on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
English Partnerships have issued a Vision for a ‘community of the future’ in a press release today announcing the next carbon callenge project:
The development of an innovative, zero carbon neighbourhood in the centre of Peterborough moved a step closer today as pPod – a consortium consisting of Morris Homes, Gentoo Homes, and Browne Smith Baker [...]
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a transition view of the uk transition housing plan
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, energy, housing, politics, refurbishment, resilience, sustainability, technology, transport, tagged transition towns, zero, zero carbon on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A welcomed and important perspective on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was posted by Rob Hopkins on the Transition blog:
After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there are a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled [...]
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