Have you considered the potential environmental impact of your new home yet?
Research has shown that nearly 60% of the UK’s energy is consumed in the construction, use and demolition of our buildings and with the number of new homes needed constantly rising that energy consumption is only going to get higher.
What is the Code for Sustainable Homes?
The Code for Sustainable Homes aims to lead house-builders to create comfortable, well-designed high performance homes that will benefit the occupiers and their environment.
The days of ‘eco-housing’ being the niche of a Green minority are over – sustainable development is a central part of most industries and is set to remain so in the long term.
The government has made its commitment to sustainable development and plans to make compliance with the code mandatory in the next few years. Stamp duty exemption on first sale of Zero Carbon Homes has already been announced starting 1 October 2007 and will remain for 5 years and further grants and allowances are available to aid sustainable builders. For more information please go to our Green Links page
Sustainable Design for Code Compliance
Your unique sustainable home needs to be planned and designed with care in order to comply with the Code. With so many areas to consider a guide through the maze really is a necessity to the uninitiated. Our commitment to sustainable building gives us a unique position to help you decide on the areas important to you while ensuring you get your dream home.
So why build to the Code? Why not just a greener home?
The Code provides whole life sustainability – the energy, water usage, materials, waste and management of the building are all considered to ensure a totally sustainable solution
- Quality – the Code addresses a wide range of criteria and offers homebuilders the opportunity to ensure their homes will continue to perform to the highest levels.
- Regulatory Certainty – The Code has been designed to show the future direction of the Building Regulations, Homes built to these standards now will remain to be compliant well after the 2005 Building Regulations have been updated so there should be no need to upgrade insulation and air tightness later on to remain an effective building.
- Flexibility – only a small number of the Codes criteria have minimum standards to qualify, this means the remaining points can be gained in any combination providing design and management flexibility and your truly unique high performance home.
The code needs to be considered from the early stages of your designs. For help in incorporating CSH07 in your self build design
talk to timbertecs.
Planners may look more favourably on new build that follows the code, click here for
help with planning.
