A pathway to 'nearly zero energy' buildings

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The government may have dropped its zero carbon homes standard for new builds but the goal can still be achieved, argues Hywel Davies of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

For the last five years, the coalition government maintained it was committed to delivering zero carbon new homes from 2016. But under the new Conservative government, Chancellor George Osborne wasted...

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