Delivering a Sustainable Future

Zero carbon homes

In the policy document Building a Greener Future (2006), the Government set out a timetable for a sequence of improvements to the Building Regulations Part L that would lead in time to ‘zero carbon homes’. This was proposed to be achieved in three steps: “moving first in 2010 to a 25% improvement in energy/carbon performance set in building regulations; then, second, in 2013, to a 44% improvement; then finally, in 2016, to zero carbon.”

Our team of energy and sustainability experts will provide you with detailed design advice for your development to achieve current targets, whilst preparing you for future standards and eventually zero carbon homes.

We will advise you on the most appropriate and cost effective ways to achieve high levels of energy efficiency through passive design measures, carbon compliance through low and zero carbon technologies and eventually help you explore the most appropriate allowable solutions for your development.

We are able to use Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) to model buildings in significantly more detail, an assessment methodology, originally established in Germany, that has gained considerable interest in the UK since 2004.