BE AFRAID (BUT NOT VERY AFRAID)

摘要

Grrrr!!!! next year the industry will have buck up its ideas and get its energy efficiency act together, as it is forced to implement the new Part L. Among other things, these new regulations will contain tougher thermal standards and a move towards much more complicated ways of calculating whether a building is compliant (see 13 February, pages 55-57). So more hard work for everybody all round, then. But hold on a minute - maybe it is the government that should be feeling nervous. There is evidence that even the current version of Part L is being widely flouted, which means it.is pointless to introduce an even more complex and demanding version. This is not lost on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which is so concerned about non-compliance that it recently hosted a private seminar with the Foundation for the Built Environment This revealed a catalogue of problems with the enforcement of Part L.