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Sustainable homes
Published in Derek Worthing, Nigel Dann, Roger Heath, of Houses, 2021
Derek Worthing, Nigel Dann, Roger Heath
In 2007 the Code for Sustainable Homes (which applied to England, Wales and Northern Ireland) was introduced. It superseded the Building Research Establishment’s (BRE) EcoHomes assessment. The Code was a direct response to, amongst other drivers, the Stern Review and the Government’s consultation document ‘Building a Greener Future: Towards Zero Carbon Development’ (2006). An over-arching aim of the Code was to lead the way in delivering the (then) Government target of all new homes being zero carbon from 2016 onwards. The Code rated dwellings on a scale of 1 to 6 – referred to as levels – where Level 1 would have a slightly better environmental performance than the Building Regulations and Level 6 was considered to be ‘zero carbon’. It was intended that the Code would allow flexibility in design and construction with a mixture of mandatory and ‘tradeable’ issues.
C&G Unit 301: Understand the fundamental principles and requirements of environmental technology systems
Published in Trevor Linsley, Advanced Electrical Installation Work, 2019
The Code for Sustainable Homes (see Fig. 2.17) measures the sustainability of a home against categories of sustainable design, rating the whole home as a complete package, including building materials and services within the building. The Code uses a one-to-six star rating to communicate the overall sustainability performance of a new home and sets minimum standards for energy and water use at each level.
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Published in Ray Tricker, Samantha Alford, Building Regulations in Brief, 2017
The Code for Sustainable Homes aims to create sustainable homes and reduce carbon emissions. The Code was launched in 2006 and updated in 2016. Any developer of any new home in England can choose to be assessed against the Code. The Code for Sustainable Homes is still operational and remains the government’s national sustainability standard for new homes.
Design for deconstruction using a circular economy approach: barriers and strategies for improvement
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2020
Olugbenga Akinade, Lukumon Oyedele, Ahmed Oyedele, Juan Manuel Davila Delgado, Muhammad Bilal, Lukman Akanbi, Anuoluwapo Ajayi, Hakeem Owolabi
The stringency of such legislations and policies has been a proven way to ensure full compliance with government targets among the practitioners of the construction industry. An example is the UK government effort in diverting waste from landfills by imposing a landfill tax of £88.95/tonne for standard rated waste and £2.80/tonne for inert/inactive waste from 1 April 2018. In fact, there is a progressive increase in the landfill tax such that by 1 April 2020, £94.15/tonne will be charged as standard rate. In addition, the UK government made the provision of Code for Sustainable Homes (CfSH) compulsory for all residential building construction and the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) is becoming a popular requirement for new and refurbishment projects. Without a doubt, achieving this level of compulsion will favour the development of standardised “best practice” and guidelines for DfD. A strategy in this direction would be attributing more points to DfD in the BREEAM environmental assessment method.
Towards an energy ‘literate’ architecture graduate? UK educators’ and students’ evaluation
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2018
Sonja Oliveira, Elena Marco, Bill Gething
Prior to the 2002 Energy White Paper ‘Our Energy Future – creating a low carbon economy’ (DTI, 2003), UK’s principle approach to policy and legislation of energy in construction had been mainly set out by building control supplemented by voluntary certification tools such as BREEAM and Eco Homes (later known as Code for Sustainable homes). In the European context during the mid-2000s, there was increasing awareness of the impact the built environment had on carbon emissions as evidenced in the 2006 European Energy Efficiency Action Plan (CEC, 2006). In the UK during the same year, there was the ability to consider grants for microgeneration via the Low Carbon Buildings Programme, all set in the context of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act (DECC, 2006). The 2008 Climate Change Act followed setting out carbon reduction targets of 80% by 2050.
The unwritten history of green building rating tools: a personal view from some of the ‘founding fathers’
Published in Building Research & Information, 2020
In the residential market, the BRE again led the way with a version of BREEAM for New Homes launched in 1991. The first version of BREEAM New Homes was a direct adaptation from BREEAM version 2 for Offices and according to Howard it failed twice before a residential rating tool (Eco Homes) got some traction in the market (Howard, personal communication, February 13, 2019). Howard feels that BREEAM New Homes version 1 failed because it was too complex and expensive for homebuilders to accept and adopt. In addition, it only had the support of the third biggest house builder in the country (i.e. the two biggest UK home builders had advocated against it). A second version of the rating tool was released following a report by a management consultancy that concluded that the result needed to be pass/fail, however, this also failed to get market traction. BRE’s third attempt at a residential rating tool, now called EcoHomes and derived from BREEAM 98, was launched in 2000 and was supported by the National House Building Council as it was much simpler and cheaper to implement. Eco Homes were later used as the basis of the Code for Sustainable Homes, which was developed by BRE for the UK Government in 2006/7 and replaced EcoHomes in England and Wales. This Code became operational in 2007 and its implementation was managed by BRE Global. In 2008, the code became temporarily mandatory with the introduction of Home Information Packs, where sellers were required to issue buyers of newly constructed homes a sustainability certificate (either a Code for Sustainable Homes certificate or a nil-rated certificate). However, in 2010 the requirement for Home Information Packs was suspended along with the requirement for a sustainability certificate. In 2014, the Government in England signalled the winding down the Code for Sustainable Homes and since then the BRE has developed the Home Quality Mark, which is part of the BREEAM family.