Building for sustainability

Government plans are set to transform the energy efficiency of construction over the coming decades. Are you prepared?

By 2020 seven million homes will have been significantly improved - retrofitted with all appropriate insulation measures or with micro renewable products like solar thermal panels. By 2015 no old home will lack the basic energy efficiency measures, and from 2016 all new homes will be built to a new zero-carbon standard.

This is the scale of the Government's ambitions to tackle the third of UK carbon emissions that come from housing. Sustainability is the single most important future trend in the construction industry and anyone who ignores it does it on their own peril.

In this special supplement, we're highlighting the opportunities that the low-carbon revolution in homes will bring, how your business could be preparing to take advantage of opportunities, what new techniques you need to use and what new products you need to be working with.

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