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Salford University launches first ‘new’ retrofit house
Sustainable conference also makes its debut
Next January (26 & 27th), the University of Salford will be holding what is thought to be the UK’s first conference on the challenge of sustainably retrofitting the existing housing stock. It will also feature the launch of the world’s first period-style energy house.
The conference, which is being sponsored by construction and fit-out specialists ISG, will see delegates drawn from across industry, the public sector and academia. They will be sharing insights on sustainability challenges and the government’s policies to meet them.
Its timeliness is highlighted by the government’s announcement of legislation to be put before parliament in December to help bring private rented housing up to energy-efficiency levels of the owner-occupier sector.
Under its Green Deal, the government wants to enable homeowners to make their house or flat energy-efficient, by installing insulation and draught-proof doors and windows with no immediate payments.
The world’s “first” energy house, announced earlier this year, is a full-size traditional Coronation Street-style terraced house built in a laboratory to study domestic energy consumption.
To cost-effective retrofit of older properties makes them as carbon-efficient as possible and requires detailed and robust research.
The Salford house is fitted out as a typical working home, built in the same style as small, pre-1920 UK homes, with fully functioning water, gas and electricity supplies. The university’s academics are conducting tests inside the house to gauge how its energy consumption varies depending on variable factors and conditions.
The conference itself will be a business-focused event discussing issues with and associated with retrofit, and what can be done to improve products and the take-up of new technologies. Delegates will include technology providers, construction companies, installation companies, housing organisations and social landlords, local councils and local government and policy makers.
More information: www.energy.salford.ac.uk
One Response to “Salford University launches first ‘new’ retrofit house”
ecoadmin says:
The Salford University house isn’t the first energy efficient house to emerge from academia but it seems to be the only one that’s about to receive some form public recognition. Lets hope it makes a major contribution to improving the current housing stock, because there are many homes of this type around which special deserve attention.