All energy efficiency articles
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NewsFears grow over June Part L uplift as SAP software ‘not ready’
HBF writes to government calling for an immediate update to software used to calculate energy efficiency in new homes
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Spring statement: Industry calls for more action on retrofit
Chancellor’s energy efficiency VAT cut welcomed but more comprehensive package needed, argue industry bodies
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Architects urge mass-retrofit of interwar housing
Improving 3.3m homes would cost £37.5bn, says the RIBA
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M&G buys majority stake in green MMC housebuilder
Institutional investor in £500m partnership with Greencore to build several thousand homes
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Audit MPs scathing over green homes grant
Public accounts committee ‘not convinced’ that business department grasps full scale of the scheme’s failure
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Can we tell if housebuilders' net zero commitments are any more than ‘blah, blah, blah’?
The difficulties in measurement will make the substance of housebuilders’ pledges hard - but not impossible - to assess, says Joey Gardiner
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COP26: Nationwide retrofitting programme ‘needed to meet net zero by 2050’
Detailed roadmap published today by coalition of construction professionals
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Cost of decarbonising all UK homes could run to £330bn
Research from Savills says government interventions do not go far enough to persuade homeowners to carry out the work
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Countryside puts MMC at heart of net zero strategy
Housebuilder says it will reduce direct and indirect emissions by 42% by 2030, and ramp up timber frame construction
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Industry demands ‘bold’ action from politicians on climate
Resi developers included as built environment sector presents urgent demands at COP26 summit
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Industry laments ‘shocking’ failure to introduce domestic retrofit programme
Critics round on government over ‘unambitious’ Heat and Buildings strategy supposed to pave the way for net zero
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Heat pump grant for homeowners centrepiece of long-awaited heat and buildings strategy
Plans for £5k grant outlined in strategy to decarbonise 30m existing homes and commercial buildings
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London councils agree £98bn retrofit programme for 3.8m homes
Local authorities in London have agreed a plan to achieve net zero by retrofitting 3.8 million homes in the capital.
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New department 'needed to tackle retrofit challenge'
Trade group tells government that new ministry or agency should overseeing 20-year programme
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Tory MPs demand the government moves faster on low carbon homes
Rising star Bim Afolami says net zero ready homes needed urgently, even if housebuilders “scream and shout”
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Starmer pledges £6bn a-year ‘national mission’ to upgrade homes
Labour leader uses conference speech to announce plan to improve energy efficiency of 19 million UK properties
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Contractors put on notice for £750m retrofit framework
Four-year Fusion21 deal to include £500m of work to decarbonise existing homes
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Auditor slams ‘unacceptable’ delivery of Green Homes Grant scheme
Abandoned £1.5bn domestic retrofit discount scheme will help less than a tenth of the homes originally targeted
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Ministers mull plan to offer £7,000 grants for heat pumps
Ministers looking at quadrupling funding for existing Clean Heats Grants scheme and extending it by a year
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Government may reboot Green Homes Grant housing retrofit scheme
Business secretary admitted the scrapped £2bn programme had been ‘problematic’
