13 October 2009
Everyone is building sustainable housing now, but can they do it affordably? A key challenge of the introduction of and any housing standards, both in grant funded housing or in the open market, must be for them to be implemented in a cost effective way in order to ensure their success in volume. Any process [...]
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30 July 2009
When the Ecohomes standard was introduced, followed by the Code for Sustainable Homes which replaced it, these standards were first compulsory for Grant Funded Affordable Housing, that is, most housing developed by housing associations. As a result the first to respond in a significant way to the demands of these codes were the developing housing [...]
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