{"id":1889,"date":"2010-10-13T16:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2010-10-13T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:27:28","slug":"refurbishment-important-online-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"Refurbishment: Important online survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The National Refurbishment Centre (NRC) is asking people how easy  it is to find reliable information about sustainable refurbishment in  the UK and what the National Refurbishment Centre priorities should be,  with surveys to be submitted by 5 November, 2010.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nNRC is a strategic partnership between the BRE Trust, the Energy Saving  Trust and industry partners to enable the practical delivery of green  retrofit through a national demonstration initiative.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The challenge<br \/>\n<\/span>Buildings contribute 44% of the UK\u2019s overall annual carbon dioxide  (CO2) emissions, with more than a quarter coming from housing. \u00a0For the  country to meet its 80% CO2 reduction target by 2050, it will need to  refurbish its existing buildings, many of which will still be in use by  then.<br \/>\nThe task is huge but so far the response has been fragmented. The  National Refurbishment Centre is a nationwide demonstration initiative  that seeks to foster a more joined-up approach to developing the  practical measures needed to refurbish buildings in volume.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Collecting hard evidence to deliver practical solutions<br \/>\n<\/span>At the heart of this collaborative project are 450-500 exemplar  homes. These are demonstrating sustainable, energy-efficient  refurbishment in action and are expected to reduce carbon emissions by  between 60% and 80% a year.<br \/>\nThe data collected from these exemplars include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; One-time-tests of thermal imaging, air tightness and other single tests.<br \/>\n&#8211; Live data on air quality, humidity, energy use and other areas, which is collected every five minutes.<br \/>\n&#8211; Occupancy evaluation of comfort and experience from face-to-face interviews, questionnaires and blog diaries.<\/p>\n<p>This will be one of the most extensive demonstration initiatives in the  UK. It will provide different stakeholder working groups with the solid  evidence needed to develop a practical delivery of green retrofit in the  UK, such as the creation of standard guidelines to the development  better training.<\/p>\n<p>To take part in the survey, and the chance to win \u00a31,000 of M&amp;S vouchers, click: <a href=\"http:\/\/form.bre.co.uk\/34787\/34787np.htm\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkingrefurbishment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.rethinkingrefurbishment.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Refurbishment Centre (NRC) is asking people how easy it is to find reliable information about sustainable refurbishment in the UK and what the National Refurbishment Centre priorities should be, with surveys to be submitted by 5 November, 2010. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}