Retrofit Explained

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Humidity control makes a retrofit home

When one considers the retrofit of a house, more often than not, there is a focus centred around the reduction of energy required to heat up the house. Yet the implementation of humidity control is just as important.

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Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator Unveiled

A new government initiative has been introduced across England to help support the decarbonisation of social housing.

The programme coined as the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator (SHRA) has been designed to help social housing providers push through challenges faced by offering an information hub to try and simplify the process.

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Top 10 impacts that PAS 2035 will have on your business

From July 1, 2021, all retrofit projects receiving government grant funding will be required to adhere to the PAS 2035 standard.

In May 2019, the British Standards Institute (BSI) published the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) document. This was a response to the Each Home Counts review (2015-2017), which identified current flaws as well as potential long-term issues with energy efficiency construction projects.

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What is Net Zero?

Seemingly the new sustainability buzzword that has cropped up everywhere, what is ‘net zero’ and is it a realistic vision of the future?

In a nutshell, the phrase net zero tries to achieve the balance between the greenhouse gases produced into the atmosphere and those gases are taken out to keep the emissions we release into the atmosphere low.