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The Sustainable Code & Renewable Energy Applications

Code for Sustainable Homes

The Sustainable Code is a set of parameters applied to a building to ensure it is constructed, maintained and functions in a way that has an environmentally low impact.

As from April 2008 the code for sustainable homes applies to new build residential buildings and may be implemented as a rolling programme to eventually encompass new commercial properties and existing buildings of all types.

Each building receives a score between 0 and 6, depending upon how up to 9 categories have been applied to the structure and to what extent. These scores may in the future be linked to the recording of the energy performance of a building.

Categories in the code for sustainable homes include:

• Energy and Carbon Dioxide Emissions - dwelling emission rate, lighting, building fabric, energy labelled white goods, cycle storage, etc.
• Water - indoor, external use
• Materials - responsible sourcing, environmental impact
• Surface Water Run-Off - management of run-off, flood risk
• Waste - storage of waste, management of site waste, composting
• Pollution - global warming potential of insulants, NOx emissions
• Health and Well-Being - day-lighting, sound insulation, private space, lifetime homes
• Management - home user guide, considerate constructor scheme, site impacts, security
• Ecology - ecological value of site, ecological enhancement, protection of ecological features, change in ecological value of site, building footprint

Regional Buildings Assessments is ideally placed to provide advice and application on all aspects of the Sustainable Code and its implementation.

Renewable Energy Applications & Site Surveys

Renewable Energy Applications is all about how you can maintain the day to day running of your building using sustainable products and low impact elements, such as:

• Photovoltaics - a renewable form of generating electricity
• Solar Thermal Heating Systems - a method of collecting solar energy in order to produce hot water for heating and domestic use
• Rainwater Harvesting - avoid the Government's proposed metering of every building by collecting and using rainwater for domestic purposes
• Heat Pumps - a method of collecting thermal energy from earth, air and water and converting to useful heating and cooling without the use of fossil fuels

These are just some of the renewable energy applications which can be applied using the Sustainable Code, BREEAM and other authoritative guidance in order to optimise the Energy Efficiency Certification of your building.

Our qualified surveyors will provide you with sound advice and formulate schemes specific to particular structures that will reduce your carbon footprint, reduce your utility supply reliance and ultimately save you money in a remarkably short space of time. Furthermore, you'll be doing your bit to help save our planet.

We will carry out detailed surveys for application and feasibility, accounting for location and meteorological effect, as well as provide you with an estimation of payback that will allow you to make the most informed decision.

These surveys will answer such questions as:

• Will your structure support a building mounted turbine and if so which type would be most effective?
• Are you located in a geological area suitable for the capture of heat using a ground source heat collection system?
• How is your building orientated? Would it be inefficient to mount a solar thermal collector on an elevation that is compromised by a prevailing meteorological negative effect?

Regional Buildings Assessments does not recommend brands or products, nor are we attached or bound to any manufacturer provider or installer. We provide you with detailed information to enable you to make a choice from the myriad of equipment options that are available in the market place, without your decision being contaminated by sales jargon, misrepresentation or inappropriate application.