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Keep up to dateAll you need to know about the troubled history of the UK’s journey to try to reach zero carbon homes in 2016
The ‘performance gap’ between the design of new homes and their as-built energy use can no longer be ignored. And according to the Zero Carbon Hub, the only answer is to fundamentally shake up the way that the industry works
The government has missed an opportunity to improve new housing by sticking dogmatically to an expensive zero-carbon solution
We could be well on the way to achieving zero carbon homes if demanding standards were used to underpin ‘allowable solutions’
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