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Brown’s revamp of the UK government. It fell As we also report (page 7), the DCLG’s own
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to the new housing minister, John Healey, to chief scientific adviser outspokenly challenges
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unveil the much-anticipated revisions to the the government to show just how it will be able
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on proposals for revamping Parts L and F of ends? This is not to downplay the importance
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the regulations would not only be a tidying- of the Part L and F revisions that we can expect
Laurence Aston, Director of Mechanical
Engineering, Morgan Professional Services up exercise of existing to be implemented, and
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policy (by plugging gaps
Consulting Engineers
Patrick Conaghan, Partner, Hoare Lea
and adding clarity, for
This policy
which are highlighted in this
issue. They are a significant
Consulting Engineers
example) but would also omission step forward; but they still
David Hughes, Building Services Consultant,
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also reflects the
leave open the question as
Philip King, Director, Hilson Moran
in the seemingly to whether Britain’s building
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impossible task of
short-termism of
stock can be sufficiently
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meeting UK carbon-
and Lighting
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overhauled – not just to meet
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reduction targets in
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theoretical targets but to help
2020 and 2050. As our bring about the requisite step-
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Ant Wilson, Director, AECOM
page 14 suggests, many in the industry believe towards energy efficiency in homes.
Morwenna Wilson, Graduate Engineer, Arup
that key to hitting these targets is a policy that The challenge faced by building services
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