They are currently looking for building surveyors who would be happy to undertake and write up short reports on energy saving opportunities in community buildings.

As a committed environmental charity, they are looking for people with strong green ideals, who really want to see their work resulting in carbon and cost savings in these community buildings, rather than profit driven companies.  For further information please contact Jerome Baddley on jerome.b@nottenergy.com.

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For full details of this exciting and stimulating conference please click here. If you wish to attend you are encouraged to book as soon as possible as numbers are limited. Please note that any AECB member can attend the agm business session only free of charge.

If you have been or you represent a member company that has been an AECB member for more than 12 months, are you willing to serve as a Trustee of the Association and subsequently sit as a Trustee of the AECB Board? This year there is one vacancy. If you are interested please telephone the existing Chairman, Chris Herring, on 01484 461705. He will be able to explain what is involved and the input the AECB needs.  It would also be useful to visit the members area here where minutes, reports, trustee and company information is posted.  If you have any item you wish to include on the agenda for the meeting under Item 8 please let Sally (email: sally@aecb.net or tel: 0845 456 9773) have full details before the 12^th May. The agenda, annual report, accounts, minutes of the last agm and other relevant information can be viewed here.

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The Old House Eco Handbook (9780711227729) is available to AECB members at a special offer price of £24 (inc UK P&P) – please call Bookpoint on 01235 400400 quoting code 460HEH.

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The C-Change sustainable homes discounts include the new EnerPHit standard, which has been developed for retrofits (energy efficient refurbishments) using Passivhaus principles. The Society has also increased its maximum loan-to-value on residential and shared ownership properties to 90%, to enable it to support more people to build, buy or renovate sustainably.

The launch comes at a time of increasing concern over high energy costs and fuel poverty, with the government’s Green Deal scheme seeking to incentivise homeowners to increase the energy efficiency of their properties. C-Change sustainable homes also offers discounts for properties achieving an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of B or above, EcoHomes Very Good or Excellent, Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4 and above, and AECB Silver and Gold.

You can find out more about C-Change sustainable homes here.

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We are keen to increase the range of members’ projects featured within our gallery on the Home Page of the new website.  The selection criteria for projects to be included are those which have won a formal award from a building competition (national or local); or obtained Certification (ie AECB Silver; Enerphit; PH); BREEAM Certified; or that the project has one year’s energy data on Low Energy Buildings database, etc.   Please send your image(s) in a JPG format to gill@aecb.net with full details of how the project meets our selection criteria.  All images will be credited to the AECB member/project.

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For details about the AGM, please click here.

Click here to view some of the presentations from the 2012 AECB Annual Conference

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The NHBC contacted G&S Energy to help verify snagging defects on a new build property covered by the NHBC Buildmark policy. Our thermal imaging inspection was able to identify areas of poorly fitted insulation, missing cavity seals, air and moisture ingress and faults in underfloor heating quickly and without extensive intrusion.

G&S Energy thermal imaging services include equipment condition monitoring, solar photovoltaicinspections and commercial and residential building surveys.

For more information please visit our website www.thermalimagingsussex.co.uk or call us on 01903 768418

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The New Cranes Court dwellings are very comfortable to live in and whilst calculated differently, their very low energy performance is equivalent to the German Passivhaus standard.

Tooley and Foster Partnership are now offering their Passivhaus services under the Accredited Passivhaus Design trading name. The website www.accreditedpassivhausdesign.com offers a useful resource for Passivhaus design and demystifies the Passivhaus process.   The office is currently working on 2 Passivhaus projects – a private house in Oxfordshire which is currently in planning and 93 Extra Care flats for a Housing Association which is pre-construction. Certified Passivhaus Designer Peter Ranken was extremely encouraged by the interest shown in Accredited Passivhaus Design at Ecobuild.

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