New builds given green assessment
The Good Homes Alliance has launched a monitoring programme to assess whether new build homes are meeting sustainability targets.
The programme will measure the energy performance of five properties on four developments over the next 12 to 18 months. The results, to be published in autumn 2011, will be used to help house builders ensure developments meet standards and perform as intended once tenants have moved in.
The homes are part of these developments: the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trusts’s Temple Avenue in York, Crest Nicholson BioRegional Quintain’s One Brighton, Ecos Homes’ Old Apple Store in Somerset and Gentoo’s Racecourse PassivHaus in Sunderland.
The Alliance hopes to expand the programme from 2011 onwards.
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