Houghton Regis - Sustainable Homes - 01908 900 138

The office that covers this area is: Milton Keynes

Phone Number: 01908 900 138 Email: houghton-regis@e2consultants.co.uk

A Sustainable Homes - A Sustainable Homes in Houghton Regis

The A Sustainable Homes in Houghton Regis is the environmental assessment method for rating and certifying the performance of new homes; it is also known in Wales as part of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme. In England it was launched in December 2006, by, the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG and became operational in April 2007 as the new national standard for sustainable design and construction of new homes. Since the 1st of May 2008 the developer of any new home in Houghton Regis a must have a mandatory rating against the Code.

We have made our service as efficient and user friendly as possible. By providing us with the development drawings and details requested on our online C4SH data form, we provide you with your formal C4SH fee proposal.

The UK Government has committed to a reduction in carbon emissions of 80% by the year 2050. Improvement of all the new and existing housing stock in Houghton Regis will be instrumental in achieving this target. The key to achieving these carbon reduction targets, for new and existing dwellings in Houghton Regis is by being more energy efficient. By having a Code Assessment, a level of reduction can be established.

The whole construction and house building industry must start building more sustainable properties in Houghton Regis .To initiate this; the Government has introduced the new national standards for the use in the design and construction of new homes in Houghton Regis . The Code Assessment for Sustainable Homes or the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) is the means of assessment.

It is a compulsory requirement for every new dwelling in England to achieve a rating or score against the Code assessment (C4SH). Information on this rating is to be made available to all potential buyers through a (HIP) Home Information Pack. This indicates whether the home has been built to a specific level of the Code, and if so, which one.

The Code assessment measures the 'whole home' sustainability of a new dwelling in Houghton Regis against the nine categories of sustainable design; this produces a rating of the 'whole home' as a complete package. Each category is then further divided into further components which are individually assessed against a performance target and awarded the relevant credits for achievement.

The CSH covers nine categories of sustainable design:

1. Energy and CO2 emissions (M),
2. Water (M),
3. Materials (M),
4. Surface Water Run-off (M),
5. Waste (M),
6. Pollution,
7. Health and Wellbeing (M),
8. Management,
9. Ecology.

Code assessments in Houghton Regis can only be carried out by a qualified and accredited Code Assessor. Assessments are generally a two-stage process: after Pre assessment, with the Design Stage, which leads to an interim certificate. This is followed by the Post Construction Stage, where the final certificate is issued. Evidence has to be collated and used to determine the rating via the number of credits that are awarded for each element. A summary report is submitted by the Code Assessor to the Code Service Provider for quality assurance and certification.

All proposed sites, dwellings and developments requiring an assessment should be registered with the Code Assessors accreditation body as early as possible. A proposed development can only be registered against the current version of the Code. Sites which have been registered in Houghton Regis against a previous version can be re-registered under the current version of the Technical Guide. Each registration is valid only for a maximum of 5 years between the expiry of the Technical Guide version it was submitted against and the submission of the design stage report.

There is no time scale once a project assessment has started on the delivery of the Post Construction Stage report.

If you require free initial advice, consultancy services or a definitive quotation on a A Sustainable Homes assessment in Houghton Regis call one of our Houghton Regis consultants at our Houghton Regis Office on 01908 900 138 or Email houghton-regis@eliteenergy.org.uk.

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Sustainable Homes can also be known as:
CSH, Code for Sustainable Homes Daylight Calculation, Code for Sustainable Homes, C4SH, Code Assessment,