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Our Overheating in New Homes – Tool and Guidance has been featured in the Buildings & Cities academic journal, in a peer-reviewed article written by Professor of Building Simulation at Loughborough University, Professor Kevin Lomas. “Kevin Lomas explains why the risk of overheating in homes is an increasing problem in the UK and elsewhere – in both existing buildings but also for the construction of new dwellings. To address this public health problem, a ground-breaking new tool has been developed and launched to assist designers, planners and clients to identify and reduce the risk of summer overheating in dwellings. A
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The Good Homes Alliance (GHA) are establishing a growing network of local authorities and housing delivery organisations that have declared a climate emergency in order to support them in developing new policies and strategies to match their declarations. The Local Authority Vanguard membership builds upon the work of the GHA Vanguard Campaign, a two year campaign which aims to encourage local authorities and developers to adopt enhanced sustainability standards for new homes. A series of regional campaign events have taken place around the country to over 200 public and private-sector developers, showcasing the exemplar work of regional champions from the
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You will no doubt be aware of the forthcoming Global Climate Strike taking place on September 20th 2019. Greta Thunberg, who pioneered the school strike for climate movement, has invited everyone to support the youth climate strikers and make a stand for climate justice. The Good Homes Alliance is fully supportive of this day of action and urges all of its members to take part in whichever way they can. GHA Global Climate Strike banner The Good Homes Alliance will have a presence at the Bristol Global Climate Strike which meets at College Green, Bristol, United Kingdom, BS1 5TJ, starting
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Rupert Kazlauciunas, Technical Product Manager, MVHR,  Zehnder Group UK July 2019 On 16th July we saw the launch of the Good Homes Alliance (GHA)’s new tool to assess the risk of overheating in new homes. The tool, to be used by planners and design teams at the very early stages of project planning, allows users to calculate the level of risk of overheating, based on a number of causative and mitigating factors. Taking geography, population density, barriers to window opening and likelihood of solar gains into account, the tool enables project planners to calculate how much risk there is of
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