Buildings use around 40% of our total energy consumption and account for over 30% of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions, but innovative building concepts – such as passive houses, zero-carbon buildings and whole house retrofits – are not yet widely used by the construction and renovation industry. How can we accelerate the uptake of these new innovations? This was the question we set out to address in a recent task for the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand.
Sussex Energy Group 7th Sept 2017 read more »