{"id":316,"date":"2009-03-19T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=316"},"modified":"2010-03-22T18:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:26:36","slug":"ciob-calls-for-focus-on-energy-use-in-existing-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"CIOB calls for focus on energy use in existing stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chartered Institute of Building is calling for the government to  place more emphasis on reducing energy consumption of existing stock. In  response to the &#8216;Definition of Zero-carbon and Non-domestic Buildings&#8217;  consultation the CIOB said. \u201cWe feel the outcome of this consultation  will influence new build homes and non-domestic buildings but only  briefly touches on the bigger problem of energy efficiency of the  existing building stock\u201d. It claims more than 80% of the 2025 building  stock has already been built and improving the performance of the  existing building stock is the most important and potentially effective  area where carbon emissions can be significantly reduced. The CIOB has  also said it is disappointed that the consultation does not consider the  issue of embodied energy of buildings and believes the government  should be taking a lead in developing national standard to address this.<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3136404&amp;origin=bldgdailynewsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3136404&amp;origin=bldgdailynewsletter\">http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3136404&amp;origin=<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3136404&amp;origin=bldgdailynewsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.building.co.uk\/story.asp?storycode=3136404&amp;origin=bldgdailynewsletter\">bldgdailynewsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chartered Institute of Building is calling for the government to place more emphasis on reducing energy consumption of existing stock. In response to the &#8216;Definition of Zero-carbon and Non-domestic Buildings&#8217; consultation the CIOB said. \u201cWe feel the outcome of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=316\">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-316","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\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}