Guidance for Wave 2.1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) has been published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). This guidance, currently published in final draft form, will now go through a period of clarification which will enable the sector to get visibility of what is intended for wave 2.1 and to get #SHDFbidready
Sustainability and energy efficiency are at the forefront when it comes to new building design, but how do we make sure older buildings and any buildings already constructed can benefit from new or environmentally friendly techniques, that might not have been available when they were originally built.
Whilst new builds are being built to be as energy-efficient as possible, existing homes that need to be retrofitted are pushing low-income families deeper into fuel poverty.
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.
Storming the schematics, energy modellers will all too often give computer software carte blanche to select a set of energy efficiency measures, with a 1 dimensional perspective of performance parameters.
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.
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.
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.
With many of the nation sweltering under the harsh sun, homes and offices are becoming … Read more
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