Energy Efficiency News

Preparing for winter: ESNZ Committee publishes Government response to report On 15th December 2023 ESNZ, the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee published the official Government response to its report from earlier in the year which called for "urgent action from...

DLUHC Open Consultation: The Future Homes and Buildings Standards: 2023 consultation The UK government has set a legally binding target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. From homes to offices, the UK’s built environment is responsible for around...

PAS 2035/2030 – Energy Efficiency Retrofit Specifications According to the official Wikipedia definition A Publicly Available Specification or PAS is a "standardization document that closely resembles a formal standard in structure and format but which has a different...

ECO 4 - Bite Size ... Update. The latest data: 14.5 million properties have cavity wall insulation circa 70%. 16.8 million properties have loft insulation circa 66%. 794,000 properties have solid wall insulation circa 9%. The funding: ECO will run from 2022- March...

  Updates to Approved Document B The government has recently published an update to Approved Document B to introduce new rules for external walls and balconies for newbuild blocks of flats between 11 metres and 18 metres in height. Lower risk developments between...

By insulatedwalls - February 21   Developers and product manufacturers that do not help fix the cladding scandal could be blocked from the housing market under new proposed measures, set out by The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and The Rt...

New Part L - The first stepping stone to achieving net zero? The introduction of the New Approved Document Part L of the Building Regulations at the end of 2021 may have gone a little unnoticed at the time, but this amendment is the first step in the long journey the...

Building Safety Fund Update January 2022?   By insulatedwalls - January 22 The Building Safety Fund was established by the Government in July 2020 to help alleviate the costs of removing unsafe cladding. The £5 million fund so far has only seen 3% of registered...

SO - What are the New Parts S & O of the Building Regulations about? By insulatedwalls - Jan 22   The Government have recently introduced two new parts to the Building Regulations, those being Part S and Part O, (SO) what are these and is there any affect to...

What is Green Steel? Simply put, Green Steel is steel produced with the lowest possible carbon footprint, which will vary from producer to producer according to the technology they adopt. Currently to manufacture steel, coke is used as a fuel and a reducing agent in...

There has been a call for many years for the UK Government to add insulation to the national infrastructure strategy to help the UK achieve new zero carbon emissions by 2050. Following the National Infrastructure Commission first publication ‘National Infrastructure...

Launched in September 2020 and cancelled on the 31st March 2021, the Government’s £1.5 billion flagship Green Homes Grant scheme to improve energy efficiency and provide a much-needed boost to employment has collapsed with just a few days’ notice. The scheme -...

Within the last 12 months we have seen the innovation of 3D printed buildings become a reality on both side of the Atlantic, with Icon Build in America and PERI GmbH in Germany. Both of these companies have been working towards building a full house or apartment using...