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*WEBINAR RECORDING* Net Zero Buildings : Is your data good enough?
8th October, 2020How do you start to transform commercial buildings into net zero carbon ones? The starting point is getting good energy data. This is the critical starting point on your net zero carbon journey. In this webinar, held on 8th October, we presented our expertise in this area, alongside Head of Product Innovation at Fabriq, Jon Thompson. …
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Use Real Data and See the Truth
25th August, 2020The wrongness of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES). When it comes to energy efficiency, there is another way to capitalise on making us all use buildings more efficiently. For property energy performance, we currently rely on MEES, but as part of Low Carbon Alliance I want this to change. Why? Well, I believe that in …
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Building Regs: Busted
29th July, 2020The minimum standards are met, nothing more… “We are Part L compliant” should really read “We design to the bare minimum.” Part L is busted. There it is, I have said it. And I am annoyed at this missed opportunity. I remember the launch of Part L and the concern it posed in the building …
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Net Zero for Real Estate … why bother?
5th July, 2020I started Low Carbon Alliance in January 2010. I had just spent the previous 5 years at HBG/BAM Properties speculatively developing BREEAM Excellent “future-proofed” offices before the credit crunch curtailed my development career. However, I had learned enough in my pre-development career as a South-East office agent, to know that the majority of built office …
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