One of the largest non-domestic passive house retrofits yet attempted in the UK, the £100 million Firoz Lalji Global Hub for the London School of Economics (LSE), will be the subject of a dedicated technical masterclass when the UK Passivhaus Conference returns to London this November for the first time in more than a decade.
Solar PV could be rolled out as standard under the Warmer Homes scheme, alongside a suite of enhanced retrofit grants for low-income households, landlords and businesses, under proposals reportedly being prepared for cabinet.
The myth that energy-efficient building is a needless luxury has been dealt a significant blow by new research published by the UK’s Passivhaus Trust.
Ireland's Building Energy Rating system has moved to a simplified eight band scale, with a new A0 rating at the top reserved for zero emission buildings (ZEBs).
Building envelope specialists and energy systems experts will meet in Manchester in September as the AECB's annual conference tackles one of the most contested questions in low-energy construction: how fabric performance and energy supply should work together.
The EU is set to publish plans to reform how electricity and gas are priced – to drive the widespread uptake of heat pumps and cut heating bills by up to 60 per cent.
Ireland must treat building decarbonisation as critical national infrastructure to protect households from future energy price shocks, according to a new policy scorecard launched today.
Britain is failing to address housing as part of the climate emergency, according to a group of 60 local authorities, businesses and civil society groups who say government changes to planning rules could spell the end of zero carbon homes in England.
The UK's leading sustainable construction event is co-locating with two other shows in May.
Major new passive house schemes for Ireland.
EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra visited Ecocem's Dunkirk plant on 14 April, marking a moment of political visibility for a technology the Dublin-based company says can cut cement's CO₂ output by up to 70 per cent.
Passive house certification has been formally recognised as a deemed-to-satisfy route within the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard at practical completion, in a move which recognises the reliability of the passive house standard as a way delivering significant real world carbon savings.
The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) has launched Home Performance Pathway, a new certification for small home builders to deliver high quality, healthy and environmentally sustainable homes.