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Posted by Barry Nutley on 25th February 2009 at 11:24 am
Domestic applications of rainwater harvesting have been the focus of previous blogs. However, there is even more potential in commercial buildings. With current economic conditions, we all need to reduce costs, and/or increase sales. Rainwater harvesting can help both: Rainwater can be used to…
Posted in: Rainwater harvesting
Solar panels are flexible and easy
Posted by Graham Eastwick on 9th January 2009 at 8:35 am
Solar PV (photovoltaic) is a great technology because it is so flexible and easy to manage. In most cases, once you have fitted it and connected to the grid you can forget about it, and watch your carbon emissions and energy costs fall and stay down for the next 25 years or so. One of the many p…
Posted in: Solar electricity
Ban power showers?
Posted by Barry Nutley on 11th April 2009 at 10:15 am
Banning power showers was the subject of a debate on Jeremy Vine's show on Radio 2 last Monday. It prompted many a response from listeners. The facts surrounding our lack of water in many parts of the UK are reasonably well documented (including on previously blog posts on this site), so the idea is…
Posted in: Rainwater harvesting
At last some vision and ambition from a government scheme
Posted by Matthew Rhodes on 21st October 2009 at 4:10 pm
Encraft is fortunate enough to be involved in the government's Retrofit for the Future competition. This is a national scheme to find innovative ways of reducing carbon emissions from housing by 80% or more – something we urgently must to do to deliver the carbon dioxide reductions we need. Wha…
Posted in: Energy efficiency
Ashden Awards winner lists ways to increase uptake of retrofit
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 18th July 2011 at 10:20 am
Hampshire-based Radian housing association won the Gold at this year's Ashden Awards, for an ambitious and innovative programme of retrofitting hard-to-treat homes and building eco-homes that far exceed the current minimum standards for energy efficiency. Paul Ciniglio, Radian's sustainability a…
Posted in: Energy efficiency
Incentives, education and more power to the consumer are the way forward for successful energy efficiency retrofit
Posted by Matthew Rhodes on 27th July 2011 at 9:45 am
I was astonished to discover today that I last blogged about Retrofit for the Future over 18 months ago, in October 2009, when I was optimistic about the scheme and the way it seemed to be mobilising the whole sector to think about innovation and change. Since then Encraft has been lucky enough t…
Posted in: Energy efficiency
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