The Zero Carbon Hub has proposed several solutions to the performance gap issue in its End of Term report, which was launched on 8 July.
The report identified that there is a gap between design and as-built performance, and as such, the Hub has put forward suggestions to government and industry on ways to close the gap, with the aim of ensuring that at least 90% of all new homes meet or exceed the designed energy/carbon performance by 2020.
The list of priority actions for industry includes:
Meanwhile, the report suggests the following for government:
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