Sentences with phrase «build new houses carbon»
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The government will consult with local councils to use the New Towns Act to build «eco towns», containing zero or low carbon housing.
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The workshop, led by New York Passive House, will educate attendees how to save money on heating and cooling bills, create a healthier home with cleaner air, live more comfortably with better temperature control and sound reduction, and reduce a building's carbon footprint.
From 2016, new build houses in the UK will not be permitted to install gas boilers to encourage carbon neutral homes, which means that there will be a big need for heat pumps in the domestic market.
For a while now, schemes that aim to encourage the mass uptake of home energy upgrades — essential for cutting carbon emissions from our building stock — have tended to fall into two camps: those that focus on shallow measures like cavity wall insulation and new boilers, and deep retrofit like the Passive House Institute's Enerphit standard.
As many Passive House Plus readersare aware, Part L1A of the building regulations deals with energy efficiency and renewable energy requirements for new dwellings and is the British government's key reference document guiding England and Wales towards meeting their 2020 carbon commitments.
Building on New York State's support for private sector solutions to lower the cost of clean energy, C&I Carbon Challenge gives large energy consumers the flexibility to tap into their in - house expertise to reduce their carbon footprints and control their energy costs.
Architect Richard Hawkes is just finishing what he calls a zero - carbon house, using all of the latest technologies but also demonstrating «how contemporary design can celebrate local materials and crafts and integrate new technologies to produce a highly sustainable building that sits lightly on the Earth»
Almost 100 million tonnes of carbon is stored in timber in Australian houses, with about 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent added each year as new houses are built...