Posts under ‘Energy Performance Certificates’

Guest blog by Robert Cohen, technical director at Camco, who is undertaking an ambitious green refurbishment project in east London. Here he reveals some numbers on the performance of the house and the long painful process in achieveing and measuring air tightness
In my first blog in this series (January this year), our project was on [...]

My job dictates that I get excited about digital, which I largely do. However it can pay to cast one’s eyes from a screen and be presented with one of those old fashioned things called a magazine (the existence of which partially pays for my salary). Professionally this usually means a five minute scan at [...]

Just had a quick spin through the Tories energy policy paper. Lots of sensible ideas – decentralising energy supply, expanding EPCs and DECs to more buildings, feed-in tariffs, existing stock ideas etc etc. Cameron speaks about them below, believing that being Conservative and green are not mutually exclusive. And there’s a webchat tomorrow you can [...]

Guest post by Robert Cohen, technical director at Camco, who is carrying out an exemplar low energy refurbishment in Hackney

We didn’t anticipate it being easy, but 20 months after completing the purchase of our dream home cum exemplar low energy project, we had expected to have achieved more than the demolition of two small shed-like [...]

Article from BD, 19 December 2008
So change has come

It’s always nice to be surprised during an event. I was chairing the Economics of Sustainability conference last week – worthy and important but, it could be argued, a tad dull. We’re approaching lunch and it’s gone 1pm. It’s a Monday and I’m beginning to flag a little, having had to kick off the day [...]

I received a copy of my Home Information Pack yesterday. The results for my EPC are in… and my flat got a C. The current impact is measured as 163 kWh/m2 per year which equals 2.2 tonnes. Potentially I could ease down to 152 or 2 tonnes a year. Not that bad a result. The [...]

Here’s a very interesting question that was raised to me yesterday by Martin Russell-Croucher, with whom I was on a panel with at an EPC event a couple of weeks ago. Russell-Croucher is director of accreditation and certification at the RICS and has unsurprisingly been closely tracking the implementation of the EPBD legislation that oversees [...]

I took part in my third energy brunch seminars yesterday morning. The event, organised by Atkins at its Leeds office, was a comprehensive run through of the latest energy performance legislation that is coming out. Part of it included a session on design, which focused on some of the sexy global projects that the engineering [...]