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    Epwin highlights sustainability in new brochure

    Epwin Window Systems has published a new brochure showing the manufacturer’s cradle-to-cradle approach to the sustainability of its systems. Business Development Director Phil Parry said: Sustainability is front and centre across all our business practices....

    Launch of Wates Retrofit to support energy efficiency upgrades towards net zero homes

    Wates has launched Wates Retrofit aimed at supporting its maintenance programme in upgrading the energy efficiency of homes and other properties. David Morgan, executive managing director of Wates Property Services, said: “With the launch of...

    Trade bodies join forces to tackle retrofit green goals

    More than 40 industry bodies have joined forces to create a new National Retrofit Hub to promote best practice in making the UK’s existing housing stock more energy efficient towards the country’s net-zero goals. “The...

    Glasgow seeks to scale up low carbon retrofit for 70,000 tenement dwellers

    Up to 70,000 residents in pre 1919 Glasgow tenement homes are among the targets for home retrofitting when Low Carbon Homes meets online to discuss how the city can meet its 2030 net-zero target. The...

    Energy Security Strategy ‘a missed opportunity’ for 29m inefficient homes – FMB

    The Government’s Energy Security Strategy completely misses the mark in tackling energy consumption in the UK’s 29 million energy inefficient homes with no significant to help cut bills and lower emissions, said FMB chief...

    GGF takes the case for glazing to Number 10

    The role of glazing in the road to Net Zero was taken straight to the heart of government when the heads of the GGF went to Number 10 to meet PM Rishi Sunak’s political...

    Govt scraps Green Homes scheme after less than 10% take-up – but skills funding...

    The Government has scrapped the Green Homes Grant voucher scheme for householders just six months after its launch and only days after Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee warned of a roadblock to its 2050 Net...

    Sash Window Workshop cuts carbon by 39%

    Sash Window Workshop achieved a 39% reduction in its carbon emissions last year against 2019, despite opening a new workshop and doubling its manufacturing capabilities. ,  The Bracknell-based company set itself a target to reduce its...

    Industry must speed up on sustainability – RICS

    A call to accelerate the growth of green building has come from surveyors in their annual sustainability report, which cites high costs or low availability of low carbon materials and skill shortages as being...

    GGF fights back on exclusion of glazing in govt’s Net Zero scheme

    The Glass & Glazing Federation has hit back at the Treasury’s decision to leave glazing out of its Energy Company Obligation (ECO+) Scheme and the Heat and Buildings Strategy with a piece of research...