All energy efficency articles
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NewsPeabody appoints developer to deliver its first Passivhaus scheme
The scheme will deliver 189 affordable, low-energy homes in South-east London
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NewsHigh Court allows legal challenge to Gove’s energy efficiency policy
Judicial review to look into government’s attempt to stop councils setting stricter rules for housing than national standards
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NewsSector groups call for more support for social landlords to meet energy efficiency rules
The Housing Forum and CIH among the bodies to respond to consultation that closes today
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NewsLatest Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund allocations announced
42 social landlords successfully bid for funding in latest wave of energy efficiency scheme
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NewsBRE recommends shake up of EPC ratings to encourage retrofit work
Advisor wants shelf life of certificates halved and metrics reformed to more accurately reflect the performance of buildings
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NewsHousing Forum calls for £3.8bn SHDF grant to be released sooner
Membership body joins National Housing Federation in calling for longer term certainty over grant funding to bring homes up to energy performance certificate ‘C’
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NewsEPC numbers fall 8% indicating drop in housing supply
Early indicator of housing development trends suggests fall in activity this summer
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NewsHousing experts rip into Sunak’s net zero U-turns
Fines for landlords who don’t upgrade their properties axed while a fifth of households to be exempt from boiler ban
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CommentGovernment must provide more clarity on the Future Homes Standard
The industry needs support and a roadmap in order to deliver more energy efficient homes, writes David Thomas
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NewsIndustry calls for new energy secretary to push housing retrofit
Claire Coutinho replaces Grant Shapps at Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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NewsUK ‘significantly off track’ heat pump installation targets
Climate Change Committee says UK has one of the lowest rates of installations in Europe
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NewsTaylor Wimpey tests zero carbon tech in five-home pilot
Each of the houses built on a site in Suffolk will be used to trial different technologies
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NewsL&Q names contractors for £3bn upgrade framework
Ten contractors picked to carry out 15 years of work to improve social landlord’s homes
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NewsIndustry left underwhelmed by Shapps’ reheated energy efficiency plan
Government plans to boost energy efficency branded as insufficient
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NewsHAs and councils share £1.4bn housing retrofit funding
Government claims 115,000 homes across England will benefit
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NewsSector slams Budget for lack of support for housing
Bodies criticise chancellor for not recommitting to housing targets, replacing Help to Buy and failing to make more funding available to make homes energy efficient
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In FocusInside the £16m research centre testing houses against the elements
The University of Salford says its Energy House 2.0 can simulate 95% of global environmental conditions. Daniel Gayne takes a look
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CommentHow ready are we for the Future Homes Standard?
The new standards will be with us in just two years – but to meet them, the industry is going to need a lot more government support, argues Laura Reeve
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CommentGovernment inaction on retrofit leaves housing caught in the Jevons Paradox
The newly created department of energy security and net zero needs to take urgent action on to make heat pumps a widespread technology or it will fail to bring homes up to the standard needed to meet the UK’s net zero targets, writes Chris Brown
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NewsSouth west council to require all homes to be net zero
Bath says new resi developments will have to go beyond building regs requirements and generate energy needs on site