Evaluating the impact of an enhanced energy performance standard on load-bearing masonry domestic construction: Understanding the gap between designed and real performance: lessons from Stamford Brook

Publication Year

2011

Document Status

Current

Abstract

The Stamford Brook project set out to explore whether low carbon housing standards could be achieved in large commercial housing developments. Though the project exceeded Building Regulation requirements in force at the time, assessments have shown that heat loss, energy consumption and carbon emissions have been higher than design predictions for standard occupancy. Discusses the implications for domestic construction in the UK.

Document History

Part of a set of reports commissioned by the previous government, published in the interests of transparency.

Author

Wingfield, J. South, T. and Lowe, B.

ISBN

9781409828914

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