The housing minister, Caroline Flint has ‘confirmed’ the proposals for mandatory Code for Sustainable Homes assessments for all new dwellings from May 1 2008.
Archive for February, 2008
Mandatory Code for Sustainable Homes, Part 2
Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, renewable energy, stamp duty exemption, sustainability on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Mandatory Code for Sustainable Homes…
Posted in Code for Sustainable Homes, sustainability, uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There seems to be much confusion regarding the forthcoming status of the Code for Sustainable Homes. There are many references to Government making a Code assessment mandatory from April this year. But is this truly the case?
Greenpeace model town
Posted in biofuel, biomass, chp, climate change, energy, engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, utilities, tagged EfficienCity, Greenpeace, model town on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greenpeace has created their version of a model town, stitching together examples from all over the UK. It’s a very cool combination of flash pages with lots of case studies, animations, and videos. Worth a wander.
ground source heat pumps not so green
Posted in climate change, energy, engineering, heat pumps, renewable energy, sustainability, utilities, tagged ground source heat pump, GSHP on February 11, 2008 | 12 Comments »
At first glance, the green credentials of ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) look unquestionable: because you’re harvesting free heat from the ground, you can get up to four times more energy out of the system than you put into it. Sure, it runs on electricity, which is more carbon intensive than gas, but because of this favourable [...]
emissions from CHP: the standard method is wrong
Posted in chp, climate change, Code for Sustainable Homes, energy, engineering, micro chp, renewable energy, sustainability, utilities, tagged Brian Anderson, iSBEM, SAP, SBEM on February 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
[update March 20: I've looked further into how SAP treats CHP and written it up here. So while the method described below is being used elsewhere in the industry, the criticism doesn't apply to SAP.] I’ve written on this topic before but maybe I didn’t succeed in making clear just how far off the mark the standard method is when estimating carbon emissions from CHP. [...]
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