There is more and more push to ‘green’ our buildings and the wider construction industry:
Circular construction: a solution to embodied carbon in buildings
Campaign for zero tax on green refurbishment of buildings: petition
Knowle relocation project: prioritise retrofitting existing buildings over demolition and rebuild
Ideas for energy-efficient building
Building Cob Houses > talk in Lyme Regis
Solar design, solar architecture
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Sustainable Crediton reports on an official initiative:
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The Future Homes Standard
The Government is consulting on its plans for the Future Homes Standard, including proposed options to increase the energy efficiency requirements for new homes in 2020. The Future Homes Standard will require new build homes to be future-proofed with low carbon heating and world-leading levels of energy efficiency; it will be introduced by 2025.
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