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Rather appropriately on Cold Homes Week ministers have been told that reducing the number of cold, leaky houses in the UK should be made a national infrastructure priority. It seems there is now widespread, cross-party support for this. While this...
Ok, so its our own record, but we’ve had the lowest calendar year energy usage for our demo house so far. I’m putting it down to 3 changes over last year – a) slightly lower occupancy with the children being...
Smarter investment for housing associations – CROHM vs EPC recommendations
By David Shewan November 24th, 2015
If you are looking for a way to improve the energy efficiency of your worst-performing stock then you might turn to your EPC certificate for recommendations. However, Parity have shown impressive savings can be made by using the minimum SAP...
Way back in September 2013 we posted a piece comparing our demo house to Passivhaus and Enerphit. I’ve provided updated figures here based on our actual bills for 2014: The figures pretty much speak for themselves. Remember, we didn’t follow...
Our first complete year of bills for the finished house are now in....and they talk for themselves.
We thought it would be interesting to work up a quick graphic of where we’ve carried out our award winning Home Energy Masterplan service throughout the UK. The image below shows the location of all Masterplan assessments carried out since...
Blog for Building.co.uk: Real retrofit requires real professionals
By Russell Smith December 16th, 2013
Our Managing Director, Russell Smith’s most recent blog for Building, posted 12th December 2013 Real retrofit requires real professionals; Retrofit is being dumbed down, and the results of ignorance can be disastrous There has been a lot of rumpus recently over...