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The Technology Strategy Board recently published the post-occupancy findings of its Retrofit for the Future competition.
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Technology Strategy Board funded 'Retrofit for the Future' research has recently been published outlining findings from post-occupancy emissions monitoring.
Last week the National Centre for Diversity notified us of our accreditation to Stage 2 of Investors in Diversity status. Woohoo!
One of our SHIFT members, New Charter Homes, is to introduce two new banding systems to score people's priority for a home.
One of our SHIFT members, Nottingham City Homes, has undertaken an Impact Study of their Decent Homes retrofit scheme (called Safe, Warm, Modern) in partnership with Nottingham Business School.
Always here to help, Baker Homes have come up with some green conversation starters for you to make the most of your environmentally friendly building credentials!
One of our SHIFT members, Great Places Housing Group has taken home the prestigious Energy Efficiency accolade at this year’s Housing Excellence Awards.
This blog is aimed at social landlords with logo’ed work clothes and at suppliers of recycling services (or logo’ed clothes) looking for a new business opportunity. If you have any suggestions or comments, please comment on this blog below.
Reviewing and changing energy usage habits in and around the home on a day to day basis is the one sure way customers will pay less for their gas and electricity, and with carbon emissions at an all time high, we should all be doing our bit to take responsibility for our usage.
A new £6million competition aimed at getting renewable heating kit into the homes of social tenants across Great Britain has been launched by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
A measles epidemic has just swept through parts of South Wales, and although some doctors now suggest that incidences of the virus have peaked, at the time of writing, over 1,000 cases, 84 hospitalisations, and one suspected fatality have been reported. It has been blamed on public mistrust of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination since 1998, following a study by Dr Andrew Wakefield which linked a rise in cases of autism with a rise in the uptake of the MMR jab. The evidence presented did not meet proper scientific standards, and was subsequently disproved and discredited. He was later struck off the medical register.
The IMF has recently published a report in which it comes out strongly against fossil fuel subsidies, concluding that they disproportionately benefit the wealthy (who consume more), and are a threat to the environment and national economies, sucking funds away from public spending. The IMF has calculated that around $1.9 trillion worldwide, or a total of 8 percent of Government revenue (including that which is raised via taxation), is spent on energy subsidies.
One of our SHIFT members, Southway Housing Trust, is supporting community food growing programmes around neighbourhoods in South Manchester, and would like to hear from other Housing Associations who have run similar projects around the country.
Baker Homes and partners are delighted to announce that Robert Napier CBE, Chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), will be speaking at the Retrofitting 2013 conference on Wednesday 5th June.