James presented the results of the research recently carried out for Westminster City Council and Dolphin Square Foundation into Energy Efficiency in Private Flatted Dwellings. The overall objectives of the research were to reduce CO2 emissions and to reduce fuel poverty. The more specific aims of the study were to explore the legal, financial, social and practical obstacles to implementing energy efficiency measures in the private residential sector. UK householders are currently [...]

I can scarcely believe it but Ecobuild has somehow managed to get even bigger in 2010. For those who remember its modest beginnings barely five years ago when there could have been no more than a few dozen exhibitors in the lobby at the QEII conference centre, its exponential growth is testament to the rise in interest in all things ‘sustainable’ in the ensuing years – or more likely to the ability of the mainstream construction industry to rebrand itself in a greener [...]

ECD Court Farm Road ‘Retrofit & Replicate’ has been awarded winner of the Inside Housing magazine’s Low Energy Social Housing Project of the Year Award 2009. The Inside Housing Sustainable Housing Awards celebrate ‘the projects and organisations at the forefront of housing sustainability best practice.’

Announced Friday, 23 October at the London Hilton Hotel, the award was received by client, Hyde Housing Association, and the ceremony was attended by members of [...]

ECD Court Farm Road ‘Retrofit & Replicate’ has been awarded winner of two awards at the National Home Improvement Council Awards 2009:

• The Big Green Home Award
• The George Plucknett Award

The Big Green Home Award was presented to the project which demonstrated the widest range of energy efficiency products, measures and microgeneration technologies to be retro fitted, maximising cost/payback and CO² savings. Judges comments reviewing the ECD [...]