Buildings

Delivering net zero carbon social housing

by: Rachael on Oct 18, 2020

Category: Buildings, Energy, Housing, Carbon, Smart

Happy heat customers?

by: Rachael on Feb 13, 2018

Category: Energy, Housing, Buildings, Behaviour Change, Heat

View from the policy frontline: our ACE interview with Joanne Wade

by: Rachael on Jul 25, 2016

Category: Buildings, Carbon, Climate change, Energy

Anyone and everyone who works in the energy efficiency sector has heard of ACE – the Association for the Conservation of Energy. Established in 1981, and now with Dr Joanne Wade at the helm, ACE has provided a loud and consistent voice for and within the sector for 35 years. They are the organisation that Government and stakeholders go to

The House Detox?

by: Rachael on Jul 4, 2016

Category: Behaviour Change, Buildings, Carbon, Climate change, Energy, Housing, Smart, Sustainability

We're delighted to welcome Ellie Horwitch-Smith as our guest blogger this week. Ellie is a Director at Adecoe and is an expert in energy and housing: she's recently been busy helping Birmingham develop their district heating offering and has a keen eye for technical detail. She believes that if you bring the right people together, you can always find a solution - a woman after SE2's heart!

How to make your building do the things you thought it would

by: Liz on Jan 21, 2016

Category: Energy, Buildings, Behaviour Change

I spent a couple of days last week with a phenomenal group of building performance evaluation experts. I was putting them through two days of workshops to synthesise their findings from looking at projects within Innovate UK's Building Performance Evaluation programme.

Meeting the Climate Emergency