Existing housing stock, you shall go to the ball

Exciting talk from pioneering housing association director, Richard Baines, from Black Country HA at the National Housing Federation Environmental Sustainability Conference earlier today. He talked of wonderful improvements in green housing technology for exising homes including: nanoinsulation which achieves excellent figures at a tenth of the width – great for underfloor and tight roof spots; new wind turbines from Northern Ireland which might help keep the blades turning even when fixed to house gables; and gas-effect fires with small back boilers to allow water and space heating all in one.

He doesn’t want to disappoint the industry in case these things
don’t pan out, so refused to give me product names, but says Building
will be the first to hear about any developments.

"Perhaps it’ll be front page news," he said. I didn’t tell him I wrote chiefly for the web site.

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