Thursday, 24 May 2012

Home improvement

After waxing lyrical about the benefi ts of retrofi tting homes for years, Paul Ciniglio, sustainability and innovation manager at Radian Group, has put his money where his mouth is and turned his house into an eco-home. Isabel Hardman finds out how the carbon savings are stacking up

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