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Sustainable Homes Scotland.
Specializing in highly energy efficient and environmentally friendly housing, Sustainable Homes Scotland (SHS) is an innovative energy consultant. Its aim is to provide clarification and education for the Scottish construction industry, architects, developers, builders and official bodies in the changing building standards of the 21st century, show practical solutions and provide an information platform for all parties involved.
With 15 years of experience in so called passive house (German: Passivhaus) building in continental Europe, lots of practical solutions and real life data are available for the British market. Be it a new concept in town development or architectural planning, new building techniques, products or alternative energies, the door is opened for those who see ahead of its time.
With the Code of Sustainable Homes and decentralised building regulations in Scotland, the political intention is clear: The construction industry has to change drastically in the coming years.
We offer Energy Performance Certificates (EPC), Accredited Certifier of Design (ACD), Air Permeability testing and Thermal imaging.
For more information about us click here
NEWS
From the 1st of December 2008
EPC's required in Scotland from 1st December 2008 onwards.
All domestic buildings in Scotland will require an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) when constructed, sold. And from the 4th of January it will also be mandatory to for domestic rental houses.
The Scottish Zero Carbon Housing Conference - building the future of sustainable housing -
Edinburgh saw it's first Zero Carbon Housing Conference on the 15th October. The Conference was organised by Sustainable Homes Scotland in partnership with the Prince's Foundation and Prospect. 12 represenatives from the Scottish parliament, the BRE, the Construction Products Association, SEDA and the building industry shed light into the theme of the practical application of sustainable housing from various angles.
Many commented on the great success of the conference. For details click here.
Grants for greener community buildings
Twenty-seven projects have been offered capital grant funding for the installation of microgeneration and energy saving technologies in the first round of the Community Sustainable Energy Programme (CSEP). Grants were awarded to schools, village halls, church councils and others that play a pivotal role in the community. Forty projects were reviewed and £587K awarded to those that best demonstrated the programme’s aims. CSEP is an open grants programme run by BRE as an award partner of the Big Lottery Fund. For more information call Maria Marsden on 0845 8630025 or visit www.communitysustainable.org.uk
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MP calls for compulsory carbon licences for rented homes
2008 Issue 22
Councils should be given the power to license rented properties based on their energy performance, according to an influential backbench MP.
Alan Simpson, the chair of the all-party group on warm homes, said the measure would tackle emissions from the existing stock. “Existing measures are not working,” he said. “We need to look at compulsion. We need to be able to experiment, such as looking at the requirement for rented properties to be licensed to minimum SAP energy standards.”
Simpson, Labour MP for Nottingham South, described current policies to tackle climate change, such as emissions trading and offsetting, as “Mickey Mouse”. “We need to get away from these ludicrous distractions,” he said.
Simpson, who put forward an amendment to the current energy bill to pay homeowners more for energy sold to the grid by domestic renewable generation, was speaking at the launch of the Existing Homes Alliance, a coalition of private and public sector bodies focused on reducing the environmental impact of the old housing stock.
The body called for a major programme of low energy refurbishments to tackle half a million properties in the next five years.
Acting chair Paul Ruyssevelt said the government needed to set ambitious targets for existing houses similar to plans to create zero-carbon new homes.