News archive for December, 2024
Early Engagement Key to Managing Passivhaus Projects
Posted on December 18th 2024
Compliance with Passivhaus targets is becoming increasingly common in planning policies and stakeholder requirements. Be it full certification or partly meeting specific compliance criteria, guidance from experts as soon as Passivhaus is mentioned as a possibility will help with smooth implementation and risk management. Achieving Passivhaus standards comes with inherent risks, including potential challenges in predicting energy usage, ensuring high-quality …
Happy Christmas & Happy New Year
Posted on December 17th 2024
We wish you all the very best during the festive season and hope you have a happy and joyous new year. We would like to thank all our clients for your continued support through the year and look forward to working with you all in the year ahead. Some highlights from 2024 include: Our 25th anniversary; Successfully helping numerous schemes …
A Safe Approach to Higher Risk Building Projects
Posted on December 17th 2024
During 2024 we have worked on a wide range of Building Safety Regulator (BSR) referrable projects and welcome the clarity of roles and responsibilities that is required to navigate the Gateway process successfully and produce robust designs for high quality buildings. With decades of experience working on highly complex building projects that would have been classified as ‘Higher Risk Buildings’ …
Key Dates for Implementation of Heat Network Regulation
Posted on December 17th 2024
Draft legislation for the Heat Networks (Market Framework) Regulations were laid in parliament last month proposing that regulations come into effect in the Spring of 2025. The transition period, referred to as the Initial Period, is outlined as follows: First Part of the Initial Period: 1st April 2025 to 26th January 2027 Regulated entities (suppliers and operators) are to register …