House builders at loss over zero carbon target

I do know wink wink, my attempt at sarcasim/humour I will leave to Jonnie from now on. It's the lead heading "Zero" when infact it doesn't mean anything of the sort, as you confirmed and I did know. I wonder how many Joe Publics will understand?

• 18 October 2010 12:13 PM

E.Hessan - You have raised some interesting points on this facinating subject and captured the mood of the article and the wider industry perfectly, its clear that reducing CO2 is vital to the property industry and is an issue that to often is disregarded.

Jonnie

• 15 October 2010 07:09 AM

wooden top: the biggest joke is that the 'green' technologies for low/'zero' carbon housing do not take into account the additional carbon production in off-site manufacturing or transportation, so there is little or no differential overall anyway! Of course - whatever we do in Britain to try to hold back the advancing tide, will be more than offset by other nations who are doing little or nothing...

• 14 October 2010 18:48 PM

woodentop - Zero carbon isn't simply 'zero', I thought you would have known that! Of course you cannot exclude carbon producing appliances.

It means:
1. Ensuring an energy efficient approach to building design
2. Reducing CO2 emissions on-site via low carbon technologies and connected heat networks
3. Mitigating the remaining carbon emissions with a selection of allowable solutions.

The point the article is making is that the above proposals have not been finalised nor defined far enough to see it as possible at the moment.

• 14 October 2010 15:58 PM

It's only the law. Ha ha ha what a joke Zero carbon. Does this mean the end of gas boilers and fires? How can you have zero carbon rating by excluding items that do create carbon?

• 14 October 2010 15:27 PM