YOU ARE AFFECTED If you haven’t yet heard of the ‘New National Technical Standards’ (NNTS), you soon will. Brought about on the back of the Deregulation Bill after concerns about planning bodies adding extra layers of technical requirements, this change to legislation will have far reaching consequences for local authorities, specifiers and house builders. No […]
Archives for May 2015
ZERØ CARBØN CØMPENDIUM – The Future of Low Energy Cities and Communities
The CO2 Driver With Climate Change still the biggest threat faced by humankind, all too often this is discussed in the abstract, making it appear disconnected from our daily lives. But with our homes accounting for between 20% and 25% of all man-made CO2 emissions, buildings – and housing in particular – remain the subject […]
Code Scrapped to Simplify Standards – Government actions and plans,
Just to remind you – the Code for Sustainable Homes has now been scrapped by the Government. Many of its measures will now be combined with the Building Regulations. Important measures include: abolition of requirement for rainwater harvesting in areas that don’t suffer from shortages some Building Regulations become ‘optional’ giving local authorities the ability […]
