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Report calls for green
Boiler scrappage success
More than 50,000 vouchers
provided under the UK
plan for communities
government’s boiler scrappage
scheme, aimed at promoting
delivery of heat infrastructure.
energy saving, have been used by
n
Local authorities should
develop ‘joined up’ The government has agreed that
people to discard old, inefficient
sustainability plans to deliver the developers will be able to invest in
heating systems. There are
green infrastructure needed to cut so-called allowable solutions, in
now about 70,000 vouchers
carbon, according to a new report. order to meet the required standard
worth £28m remaining to help
It also says that community-scale when constructing new zero carbon
householders to upgrade to more
heating, water harvesting, waste buildings.
energy efficient boilers.
disposal and waste re-use all have Paul King, chief executive of
Zero carbon test-bed
a key role to play in future building UKGBC, said: ‘Our homes and
services. buildings cannot be sustainable
AECOM has been appointed
The report, from a group led in isolation. In many cases it
lead engineer to Scottish and
by the UK Green Building Council makes sense to join up delivery of
Southern Energy’s zero-carbon
and the Zero Carbon Hub, argues infrastructure such as energy, water
development in Berkshire,
that a well-planned infrastructure, Paul King ... Calling for integrated plans and waste at a community scale.’
UK. Ten homes – to be
delivered in an integrated way, can David Adams, of the Zero
constructed to Level 6 of the
offer both carbon and cost savings • Public sector buildings should Carbon Hub, added: ‘Community
Code for Sustainable Homes – a
as well as community benefits. be required, where available and energy systems are an important
community room and energy
Key recommendations of the viable, to connect to existing or component of delivering low carbon
centre will be built to test and
report proposals are that: planned community heat networks, energy on larger developments.
research new products and
• Local authorities should develop to provide an ‘anchor load’ of ‘This report reinforces the key
technical innovations. Their
‘sustainability option plans’ to demand. Large businesses should role that government can play,
performance will be monitored
identify opportunities to deliver be encouraged to do the same; and both providing demand as a client
for two years.
joined-up sustainable community • The ‘allowable solutions’ and enabling provision of heat
KPI deal for Glenigan
infrastructure, and, should work in mechanism should be used as infrastructure through allowable
partnership with the private sector a way of providing additional solutions.’
A three-year contract to deliver
to supply this; ring-fenced capital to support the www.ukgbc.org
UK construction industry key
performance indicators (KPIs)
has been awarded to Glenigan
in partnership with Constructing
Recession still biting construction
Excellence. KPIs are national data
On-site construction works fell by index for January was 14 per cent workers between 2008 and 2010.
sets against which a construction
eight per cent in January compared down on a year ago due to the There is expected to be a further
project or a company can
with the same time last year, continued weakness of the private, contraction of one per cent in 2010
benchmark its performance.
according to the Glenigan Index. industrial and commercial sectors, before the recovery begins in 2011,
Family homes set to rise
Poor weather was thought to combined with fewer government- according to the CSN. The forecast
be to blame for the fall in the value funded health, community and recovery is likely to be long and slow,
Latest research by property
of project starts, with residential amenity projects. with a UK average output growth of
specialist movewithus has
schemes particularly suffering. The latest Construction Skills 1.7 per cent during 2010-14. There
revealed that more residential
This temporarily halted the pick-up Network (CSN) figures show that are also fears that a fall-off in public
property developers are expecting
in new private housing projects construction output has contracted investment while the private sector
to build family properties rather
seen during the autumn of 2009. by 13 per cent in 2009, with has not yet recovered will mean a
than first-time buyer homes in
Meanwhile, the non-residential employment dropping by 375,000 deeper, more prolonged recession.
the 2010s. The study questioned
residential property developers
across the UK and found 64 per
Stadium scores on
cent of developers are expecting
the level of development
efficiency rating
for larger properties to rise
Engineering consultancy
significantly.
NG Bailey is to provide
mechanical, electrical and
DEC software now free
information communication
A new partnership between
technology services for the
the National Home Energy
development of a new state-
Rating scheme and Integrated
of-the-art stadium for Brighton
Environmental Solutions (IES)
and Hove Albion Football Club.
has made access to the IES
When completed, the stadium
VE-SBEM and DEC assessor
is set to achieve a BREEAM Very
software free for NHER
Good rating and a grade B for its
Accredited Commercial and
Energy Performance Certificate
Public Building Energy
– believed to be a first for a UK
Assessors.
sports stadium.
12 CIBSE Journal March 2010 www.cibsejournal.com
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