The Green Living Index ranks 28 countries in Europe based on sustainable housing practices and ranking 23rd out of 28, the United Kingdom is near the bottom of the list, with particularly low scores for renewable energy and sustainability The index finds that only 12% of the UK’s household energy consumption
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Near Zero Energy renovation
A new multimillion euro research project which will demonstrate how buildings can be renovated to use ‘near zero energy’ has launched at Brunel University London. Featuring 17 partners from nine European countries and funded by Horizon 2020, the €8.4m project brings together academia and industry to develop a ‘Retrofit Kit’ that can be used to reduce energy consumption by 60-95% in renovated buildings.Read more
The Retrofit Kit will bring together a number of advanced, cost efficient, and energy-saving technologies – including smart windows with pre-heating and cooling technology, ventilation heat recovery, photovoltaic panels, and nature-based technologies – which can be fitted 30% quicker than typical renovations. It’s hoped that implementation of the technologies would have a payback period of under 15 years. Four demonstration sites will be created as part of the project, including one at Brunel, which will offer practical, real-world examples of ‘Near Zero Energy Buildings’ or ‘nZEBs’ retrofit.
1000 Passivhaus builds milestone passed
Over 1000 Passivhaus buildings have now been certified in the UK. The UK Passivhaus Trust also suggest that expect growth in use of the green building methodology is likely to accelerate, with a significant number of schemes in the pipeline.Read more
The 1000 units include both new buildings and buildings retrofitted to the EnerPHit standard – which is based on similar design and testing criteria. These contrasting projects show how the Passivhaus standard can be applied to any kind of building, for all sorts of client, and can help satisfy a range of priorities.
