ATTMA were featured in The Guardian, following on from a Research paper in 2017 by Dr Jenny Love et al. from UCL Energy Institute which analysed results from 144,024 homes that were tested to ATTMA scheme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The article which was published in February 2019, focuses on\nthe energy efficiency of homes and the Government stating that newly built homes\nare more energy efficient than ever. However, many new-home owners are finding\nthat their bills for hearing their homes are far higher than expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thermal imaging has helped discover that widespread poor installation of plasterboard has resulted in the air tightness being affected badly. The articles states that it appears that some house builders are “rushing their own and the Government\u2019s targets and not focusing on quality and cutting corners”, which results in the airtightness suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Case studies that been undertaken by Diane Hubbard, found\nthat most house that we built before 1900 were more airtight than expected and\nin some cases they were better than the 2006 building regulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The research paper found that \u201cThe result of meeting the\ntarget through temporary sealing, which fails after a short time, is that for\nmost of a dwelling\u2019s lifetime, air permeability will be higher than the design\nvalue,\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ATTMA Scheme Manager, Barry Cope, said \u201cBuilding Regulations\nallow the air permeability target to be 10 m3<\/sup>\/m2<\/sup>\/hr\nhowever this gives a huge amount of air leakage\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNew homes usually aim for a reading below five, while a\npassive house is close to zero\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ATTMA were featured in The Guardian, following on from a Research paper in 2017 by Dr Jenny Love et al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[61,96],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-airtightness","tag-thermalimaging"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 23:34:21","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\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}