Committee brands Government answers on adapting to heatwaves a "missed opportunity"
Posted 01.05.24
UK Parliament: Further reading
The Environmental Audit Committee expects the Government to provide more detail on its plans to adapt the UK to climate change, as it publishes the Government's response to its report on Heat Resilience and Sustainable Cooling.
In its report, the Committee cited findings that heat-related deaths could rise to 10,000 every year without concerted actions to adapt to the warming climate.
It concluded that the country's housing stock is not designed to cope with excessive heat, and millions of UK homes experience summertime overheating.
The Committee recommended launching an ambitious and comprehensive national retrofit programme to adapt the UK's houses for the demands of net zero.
It recommended this be delivered via local authorities, be underpinned by long-term funding and prioritise vulnerable households.
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Modular house-building firms may have failed but modern methods are on the rise
Posted 02.05.24
RIBA: Further reading
Despite a number of high-profile failures by modular housebuilders, major house-building firms are steadily shifting to modern methods, motivated by a construction skills shortage and net-zero targets.
RIBA's Brian Green analyses the data and its implications.
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