The National House-Building Council Foundation, which is an independent research institution, connected to the NHBC, but operating separately and works closely with the Building Research Establishment, to look at the Government’s target of all new homes being “zero carbon” by 2016.
The definition of a Zero Carbon Home is a bit of a Humpty Dumpty definition. [...]
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