IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Building Design (BD) on the ‘litany of failures’ in external insulation uncovered by the National Audit Office.
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Building Design writes:
‘National Audit Office survey uncovers litany of failures on two energy efficiency schemes including widespread suspected fraud.’
Almost all homes fitted with external insulation under two government retrofit schemes need remediation work to correct ‘major issues’ including damp and mould, a report has found.
See also
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11
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