C60 Sustainability
Check out the interview with C60 Director and Chair of RSUA Climate Emergency Committee, Alan Ritchie, in this months NI Builder Magazine. Alan talks about the RSUA Climate Action Paper, recently launch at Stormont.
As the current Chair of the RSUA`s Climate Emergency Committee, it gave me great pleasure to help launch the RSUA`s Climate Action Paper 2023. The Climate Emergency Committee was formed from the RSUA members, to help radically reduce our built environment’s contribution to climate change and to help prepare for the impacts of climate change [...]
The C60 Team have been out following the company ethos of sustainability with an evening of ‘sustainable food’ prepared by John Paul Leake, head chef at Belfast’s Merchant Hotel. […]
Gone are the days of having to install network cable throughout your home. The improvements in wifi stability mean that your whole home can be an Internet connected 'smart home' with the flick of a switch. When considering your new home, you do not just have to consider which floor finish you want or what [...]
Topics include: Replacement Dwellings Conversion of Agricultural Buildings Farm Buildings PPS21 Advice CTY3, CTY4 and CTY10 Click HERE to get a download link...
The Passive House Institute has announcd the launch of its two new certification categories, Passive House Plus and Passive House Premium, which recognise on-site renewable energy generation. Renewable energy is the ideal complement to the efficiency of the passive house standard. In order to provide reliable guidance for this combination, the Passive House Institute introduces [...]
On 3 March 2015, the leading building science centre BRE introduced a voluntary, national Home Quality Mark for new housing that will transform the way consumers choose the homes they buy and rent. The consumer focused standard will enable house builders and developers to differentiate their homes in the marketplace and independently demonstrate performance and [...]
Jenny Robinson left a comment on our blog to ask if it would be possible to heat a Passive House with cats... So we thought we would check to see how many cats would be needed... In The New Autonomous House, my second year tutors at Nottingham University, Brenda and Robert [...]
We couldn’t wait to show everyone our latest completed project, a beautiful house extension in South Belfast. We will be updating the site with final photos in the next week but here are a few quick snaps taken at the Practical Completion site visit. This project took a great deal of effort and skill to [...]
Topics include: Passive House for re-furb EnerPHit Standards EnerPHit Requirements EnerPHit Methods Click HERE to get a download link...