Category: Sustainability & Energy Efficiency

Cistermiser: Leaky loos, silent losses – the hidden waste behind England’s £5bn litre water gap

Small changes in how we use water could help close England’s projected five billion litre daily shortfall, according to new research from the University of Surrey. Cistermiser says the findings highlight an important part of the solution, but behaviour change alone won’t be enough.

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Rinnai: Wider Electrification – Why Commercial Heat Pumps Can Be The Future

Rinnai Director Chris Goggin looks at current domestic energy policy and the undertaken UK direction towards widespread electrification. He examines how commercial sites will benefit from the installation of a heat pump once the UK electrical grid becomes fully decarbonised…

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Vectaire: Helping to Stay Cool

Vectaire’s Cool Breeze and Cool-Aire, are designed to be used with MVHRs. The two sizes of Cool Breeze are effective solutions for mitigating summer over-heating.

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Rinnai: Carbon Reducing Hybrid Hot Water and Heating Systems

Rinnai’s Pete Seddon reviews the benefits of purchasing a low carbon hybrid heating and hot water system and provides a detailed exposition of the separate energies that can power a hybrid system…

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Rinnai: rDME – an energy source for the near future

Chris Goggin, of Rinnai, explains the relevance and value of rDME for sustaining rural businesses. rDME offers operational and ecological benefits as an alternative fuel source for off-grid businesses that require practical, economical and technically feasibility heating and hot water solutions.

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Senior’s PURe® and simple solution for the new Future Homes Standard

Senior Architectural Systems is helping designers and housebuilders prepare for the forthcoming Future Homes Standard (FHS), with its aluminium window systems already engineered to meet the more stringent thermal performance requirements that will apply from 2028.

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West Fraser: Quality CaberShield ECO chosen for new townhouses

West Fraser has introduced CaberShield ECO, an eco‑friendly flooring solution engineered to meet the practical demands of residential, commercial and refurbishment construction. Providing a high‑performance, waterproof floor during the build phase, CaberShield ECO creates a slip‑resistant working platform while protecting floors below from the elements.

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Mitsubishi Electric reaction to Climate Change Committee’s air con guidance

This article features reaction to the Climate Change Committee’s ‘A Well-Adapted UK’ Report from Chris Newman, Net Zero Design Manager at Mitsubishi Electric…

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EJOT: A fast-track to more sustainable, stronger and safer facades

Gary Robson, Business Development Manager at EJOT UK, explains why the stainless steel composition of its substructure system – EJOT CROSSFIX – coupled with innovative design and manufacture, make it a future-ready solution for next generation facades.

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