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Today we can announce that our demo house, Hope Villa, has been short-listed for the Energy Efficient Building Project of the Year award as part of the Energy Awards 2014. The house, which is owned by Parity’s Commercial Director, Chris Newman,...
In asking the question “does retrofit really work?”, you first need to decide what you mean. Some argue, for example, that the rebound effect – people turning up their heating when their home has been insulated – means that it...
We are proud to have won the Domestic Retrofit category at the GreenBuild Awards 2014.
Once again we’re opening up our demo house for a tour to inspire others to take the plunge in turning their house into a comfortable energy efficient home. Our latest bills show that its a roaring success and wasn’t achieved by...
The annual total energy use continues to drop every month we move forward and get to replace last years leaky house figures with new figures. At the end of December our gas use stood at 8,187kWh, now another month later...
I suddenly realised that I’ve never published our Energy Performance Certificate figures for our house prior to and after our renovation. The Energy Performance is the document you get when you buy or rent a property, or that you need...
Although we don’t look at general cold water use in our Home Energy Masterplan as the energy content and CO2 content of mains water is very low – 0.079g/litre – I thought I’d do a quick post to show what...