Earth Notes: General Bibliography (BEIS2022building)

• [BEIS2022building] UK BEIS Building for 2050: Low cost, low carbon homes (accessed 2023-01-04), UK BEIS, 2022-11, report/number 2022/031 (report) (BibTeX).
  abstract

  Building for 2050 offers a snapshot of the UK's construction industry and its ability to deliver low carbon homes now. It identifies how best to minimise cost, improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, increase consumer demand, and accelerate industry delivery of low carbon housing. While the focus is new build housing in England and Wales, the key findings broadly apply to all new build housing throughout the UK. Building for 2050 is unique research. In a detailed analysis of case study projects, it identifies the barriers and opportunities to their delivery at scale and examines the impact this could have on energy demand and carbon emissions. It provides rounded analysis of the whole process from inception to occupancy - developing, designing, constructing, and living in low cost, low carbon homes. This holistic evaluation incorporates the views of multiple stakeholders and draws upon case study homes, the wider construction industry, and the energy services sector. A wide-ranging consumer survey and a general industry survey further contributed to the findings. If all homes constructed in future are built to a low carbon standard, there should be no need to retrofit these homes before the UK Government's net zero 2050 deadline.
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  [Quote: "Most existing homes will need energy efficiency upgrades (in some cases significant works) and all homes will need low carbon heating in line with the Net Zero Carbon commitment."]