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Sustainable Housing: Five Ways to make it affordable

13 October 2009
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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.
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Lingwood: Project Introduction and Objectives

8 September 2009

Building affordable housing on rural exception sites is a difficult business, involving a wide range of stakeholders, and the funding structure is strict. If an RSL is to invest in raising the sustainability standards of its properties across the board, it has to do this from the basis of reliable information – it can’t afford [...]

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Why a GreenGauge Homes Approach?

30 July 2009
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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 associations.
Some [...]

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