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I like to think that both homeowners and small builders are ready to embrace the challenge, for lower bills in the former’s case, and a way around the house price volatility in the latter’s. But it seems to me there’s no way we will get moving on the 2025 Future Homes and Buildings Standard targets, never mind those for 2050, if we don’t see some determined intervention from Government into making it happen. And small builders need to be helped up onto a level playing fi eld to absorb the extra costs of zero-carbon ready homes which their larger counterparts can absorb.
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Despite the English Government (which it is increasingly functioning as) moving to try and reinstate low carbon construction as a genuine policy aim, Scotland has somewhat stolen the march. On 10 January, the Scottish Government announced plans to introduce new minimum environmental design standards for all new build housing which will equate to a “Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard.” This is true devolution, or more accurately, evolution of decision-making among our constituent nations – for the better when it comes to our chances of hitting our overall energy effi ciency goals. Climate change doesn’t care about borders.
Lastly, we must express our horror as well as sympathy for the Turkish and Syrian victims of the recent earthquakes which have to date killed over 33,000 and left many more homeless. The dire situation is also an indictment of careless building practices, at least in Turkey, where the poor were left in homes which had no chance of withstanding such a massive, but completely predictable earthquake. So far, 113 arrest warrants have been issued within Turkey’s construction sector. It’s negligence on a colossal scale, and must at least be a wake-up call for other administrations.
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The Generator Building in Bristol shows how Victorian transport infrastructure can be repurposed as modern workspace – Tom Boddy spoke to architecture and interior design studio MoreySmith and project architect The Bush Consultancy Cover image © Fiona Smallshaw
GENERATOR BUILDING, BRISTOL
An adaptive reuse project by MoreySmith and The Bush Consultancy turns a tram generator station into a wellness-friendly workplace
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nother month, another Housing Minister, this time it’s someone called Rachel Maclean having a go – there have now been 15 different Housing Ministers since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, which is frankly pathetic. Why bother pretending that housing is a priority if you’re not prepared to back it up with consistency of leadership at the top? Also I cannot recall, in over 25 years reporting on the sector, a Ministerial brief with a ‘headline’ responsibility explicitly for construction; it’s almost as if they’re scared of it.
There has also been a tacit admission that just perhaps, they were wrong to completely jettison the Government’s then highly respected commitment to zero carbon by 2016, in Cameron’s war against self-described ‘green crap.’ It seems that they are now keen to embrace the effl uent as the legal 2050 net zero target looms. The new Department for Energy and Net Zero sounds very like the Department for Energy and Climate Change – which in that fateful year of 2016 was subsumed or perhaps ‘disappeared’ into the Department for Business.
Let’s hope that the new Housing Minister speaks to this new Department quickly, about how to engage the whole construction sector in producing affordable homes by 2025 that are 80% more energy effi cient, and ‘zero carbon-ready’ as the mantra goes. Without the mythical national retrofi t strategy however, this will be largely meaningless, given the scale of the retrofi t challenge.
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