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While we usually advise a lead-in time of around 1-2 weeks between signing up for our Home Energy Masterplan service and receiving a visit from one of our expert surveyors, we do strive to accommodate clients whenever possible. Still, it...

Whilst we support many of the underlying principle of Passivhaus design, we don’t believe that Passivhaus principle and design are the most suitable approach to retrofitting most of the UK’s buildings.  Essentially this is for the following reasons: – Passivhaus...

I’ve also added the project to the Low energy building database where it compares very well to other buildings – check out the actual figures compared to Passivhaus houses (in warmer years).    

We’ve entered our demonstration project onto CarbonBuzz and will continue to enter data as we take meter readings.  Its interesting to see that despite the house still having work to be done (i.e. holes!) in the first year and a...

We’ve now got our first calendar year of bills (as opposed to first consecutive months) and its starting to look really good. Our Hope Villa figures for the first full year of a completed house will be around May but...