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Thank you to all those who completed our short overheating guidance survey. We’ve had some great feedback with over 180 responses and have decided to extend the deadline for further responses until 5pm on 12th January 2019. The research team are particularly interested to hear from local authority planning teams. The project is now entering the 2nd phase and the research team will soon be testing the new guidance. If you are interested in being involved in a pilot study, we would like to hear from you. We’re especially interested in testing the new guidance on completed and occupied projects
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Neil May was an inspiration and fellow traveller to the Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF), constantly striving to improve the performance of some part of the property and construction industry and gathering people around him to help make the necessary changes happen. Neil had an extraordinary gift for bringing people together and inspiring them to act collectively. He spoke with enthusiasm and passion which inspired people to act, but he also had great understanding and knowledge of the problems that needed addressing, which gave honesty and integrity to his aims and campaigns. Neil and the SDF first met at an event
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The Good Homes Alliance has commissioned a project to better support local authorities and project teams in the evaluation of overheating risk in new residential planning applications, and to raise awareness of possible design solutions. The guidance is intended for use at the pre-planning and planning application stages of construction projects. The aim is to help planners and designers to spot potentially high-risk designs, enabling informed dialogue and helping to identify solutions at an early stage if needed, for everyone’s benefit. The guidance will be available in Spring 2019. We would like to hear from local authorities and project teams
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The Good Homes Alliance is pleased to announce that a contract has now been awarded for our recent overheating research project tender. The aim of the project is to develop guidance and tools to help planners and design teams identify and mitigate the risk of overheating in housing developments at an early stage. Click here for more information. The winning bid was won in competition, and the tender panel was very pleased to receive a number of high quality proposals. The chosen consortium comprises: Susie Diamond (Inkling) Julie Godefroy (Julie Godefroy Sustainability) Nicola O’Connor (Mandarin Research) The tender panel were
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued their starkest warning yet and a call to action with its fifth report calling for the world’s needs to be met by building a net zero global economy by 2050.  The Good Homes Alliance believes the following actions need to take place – and without delay – for the built environment to meet the IPCC’s challenge: The UK’s energy and carbon reduction targets for new homes needs to reflect the IPCC’s targets and a new accelerated trajectory should be adopted to meet this. (The UK Green Building Council is currently focussed on this
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