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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