Efforts to be more energy efficient are being raised throughout the UK by building more energy efficient homes. From Kent to Bristol, and a new Design Air Permeability in Guernsey, air tightness is at the forefront of these developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Kent, Ebbsfleet has approved plans to build 133 carbon\nefficient homes. The new houses will use solar panels, sustainable drainage and\nelectric vehicle charging. There will be a focus on energy conservation too,\nwith measures such as airtightness, high performance fabrics and glazing and\nlow energy lighting to make sure bills are low, but the homes are energy\nefficient too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Bristol, work has started to make the city carbon neutral by 2030. Passivhaus homes are being built in the new area, using locally sourced natural materials that allow the building to breath. The aim is to have low air leakage, which will reduce bills, as thermal efficiency will be key. The whole house mechanical ventilation with heat recovery and maximum solar gain for light and heat mean that there is a low demand for heating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile in Guernsey, it has just been announced that local\nbuilding regulations will change in June 2020. The Development & Planning Authority\n(D&PA) has taken action to promote an improvement of thermal performance\nand energy efficiency in buildings due to climate change. It\u2019s been recognised\nthat more needs to be done to address climate change at a local and\ninternational level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To help improve the energy efficiency of new and existing\nbuilding it is proposed to increase the performance requirements. Existing dwellings,\nwhich include new build and extensions, should match current English standards,\nwhich is appropriate for the Guernsey and its climate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An increase in the air leakage standard by halve, making the design air permeability decrease from 10 down to 5 m3<\/sup>\/h\/m2 \u00a0<\/sup>@ 50Pa, and to improve clearer guidance on a testing regime. The D&PA hope to have approval in March which then would mean these standards coming into force by the end of June 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n All UK ATTMA members can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources; Efforts to be more energy efficient are being raised throughout the UK by building more energy efficient homes. From Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[61,37,30,150,99,151],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-airtightness","tag-airtightnesstesting","tag-attma","tag-attma-news","tag-energyefficiency","tag-uk"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 18:16:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Ebbsfleet, Kent<\/a>
Bristol<\/a>
Guernsey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"