CIBSE are repeating their carbon clean up 100 day programme again this year, starting on the 12th Sept. Sign up and get help, advice and tools to help you reduce your carbon footprint.
Programmes like this are important as they address carbon and environmental issues of our existing building stock.
Comments to the HIPs post led me to this fascinating site … worth a browse … into the world of HIP’s EPC’s and DEA’s
and check out the blog and podcasts
Hips and the important Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) will be rolled out to 3 bedded properties from Sept 10th with the government making further announcement on rolling out Hips and EPCs to other properties very soon.
Will the EPC’s will start to address the carbon issues surrounding existing stock? and will EPC’s be applicable to non domestic properties in time?
Interesting to watch the reposnse to yesterdays article (Revealed:cover up plan on energy target) in the Guardian with a flurry or posts to blogs, letters, responses from government and eidtorials.
This is being well covered by Phil Clarke over at Sustainability Blog,
Strong stuff in Monday’s Guardian, where economics correspondent Ashley Seager takes the Government to task for its encouragement (or lack of it) of renewable technologies. He offers a stark contrast between us and Germany, where renewables now makes up 13% of all energy compared to our 4.6%. Seagar reckons we are tinkering at the edges with our botched low carbon buildings programme and the renewables obligation (RO)system, which requires energy producers to use a growing propertion of renewable sources. “Britain’s climate change strategy, such as it is, is crumbling,” he concludes.
What is evident is that a whole new environmental and energy economy is emerging that will have great importance for the built environment and its future energy usage strategies.
Housing Construction that both heats it self and cools itself. An interesting innovation from the States can be found at Enertia House
Enertia Building System, named as the 2007 Modern Marvel of the Year is described as
innovative new homes of remarkable strength, economy, and beauty, brought to life by an elegant new architecture and the discovery of a new source of pollution-free energy.
with a built-in “biosphere,” in gradual but constant motion, draws energy from the sun, and geothermal stability from the ground, creating a temperate climate that buffers the primary living space.
The site provides plenty of science ‘background’ which is worth checking out.
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