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From the editor
Less grandeur, more nuts and bolts W
hatever happened to the ‘Great British Refurb’? The campaign for a mass home-improvement plan, launched a few years ago, seems
to have fizzled out. Or rather, it’s got sucked up into the arty design-and-build movement spearheaded by programmes such as Grand Designs. This movement is laudable, but it’s in danger of missing a couple of essential points. One is that very few people are going to undertake a major overhaul of their existing properties in a hurry. Most people simply don’t have the resources or incentives to do this (even with feed-in tariffs and subsidised cavity wall insulation), let alone design and build a whole new property. Arguably, a much
better approach is to try to persuade home owners to improve the energy efficiency of one room at a time, over the long term. In this way it is just conceivable that many of the 26m already-built homes will be much improved by 2050 – the magic target date for achieving an 80% cut in carbon emissions. The second issue that is in danger of being lost in the Great British Refurb is that we also need to focus our attention on existing industrial and commercial buildings, if we are to have any chance of meeting the 2050 target. Developers and owners of these buildings need to be persuaded of the merits and benefits for them of carrying out energy efficiency reviews and overhauls of their property. This is a commercial as well as a sustainability
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issue: with new projects drying up in the construction sector, the industry is increasingly relying on refurbishment projects. Such projects can also be fertile ground for developing
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innovative and effective green solutions that can achieve good-practice status and bear fruit for years to come.
CIBSE recognises the importance of this issue
More clients need to take longer-term
views of property improvement – and the payback from this
by focusing its national conference theme this year on commercial refurbishment (see page 16). The agenda rightly highlights the importance for industry suppliers of showing to clients the benefits that green refurbishment can bring to them. Crucially, this means identifying the payback on investment that comes from assessing and appropriately improving a commercial property. Examples of how this
type of investment can be a no-brainer for clients are highlighted in this issue of the Journal, in two very different case studies. An energy assessment of a 1930s fire station in London shows how a range of simple improvement measures
can bring major cuts in emissions and pay for themselves in limited timescales (page 35). And the case study showing more complex solutions applied to an expanded supermarket store (page 47) underlines the commitment that exists among leading retailers to exploring innovative solutions for improving existing outlets. These examples bode well for the goal of promoting commercial as well as domestic refurbishments. Forget ‘grand designs’: the real work is being done on everyday buildings of all ages and types. What we now need is for more clients to take the lead by adopting a longer-term view on property improvement and the payback that can accrue for them financially – and for the nation in terms of reduced carbon emissions.
Bob Cervi, Editor
bcervi@cibsejournal.com February 2011 CIBSE Journal 5
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