Monthly Archives: April 2011

A life cycle approach to refurbishment – Part 1

To repeat that old statistic, the Sustainable Development Commission claim that in 2050, homes existing in 2006 will still make up 70% of the total housing stock. Although the non-domestic sector has a higher rate of demolition than the housing sector, today’s non-domestic buildings will also be in use for many years. In 2009 the [...]

Embodied carbon of insulation

I commented on Chris Newman’s blog over at Parity Projects the other day, where Chris had suggested that embodied energy is not worth considering as (in energy saving kit) it would always pay back over the life of the installation. While this is true, and the way he shows it is quite nice, that doesn’t [...]