Tackling the energy performance challenge

摘要

Despite the lack of decisions by the government on Part L of the Building Regulations and its zero carbon policy, there was one ministerial announcement at Ecobuild last week that will lead to action in a vital area - closing any gap between the expected and as-built energy performance, and therefore C0_2 performance, of new homes.Building regulations minister Don Foster has commissioned the Zero Carbon Hub to lead an industry-wide project to examine the construction process - from design and planning to testing and verification - to help identify areas where an energy use "performance gap" might be occurring.