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Low-carbon homes: best strategies and pitfalls

This report and summary advise constructors on strategies to ensure modern, low-carbon domestic buildings meet expectations after findings that many do not.

• From: Innovate UK
• Published: 2 February 2016

Documents

Building Performance Evaluation Programme: findings from domestic projects - summary

PDF, 277 KB

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Building Performance Evaluation Programme: findings from domestic projects - full report

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Details

This report analysed data from Innovate UK’s £8 million Building Performance Evaluation Programme. It found that many homes were not meeting performance expectations. These expectations include the UK commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by up to 80% by the year 2050.

The report found that some homes had problems adopting new technologies, such as:

• solar water heaters
• heat-recovery ventilation
• automatic blinds
• heating controls.

The data in this report is aimed to help the following groups:

• designers
• developers
• policymakers.