Developing a sustainability rating for homes

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This report examines how a sustainability rating for homes might be implemented and covers how this might be extended to cover existing homes as well as new build,and developed along the lines of the A - G format of the EU Energy Label.

It also compares the eco-rating approach with ecological footprinting methodology to see to what extent they yield similar ratings.

Published May 2003
Pages 62

This report was written by BioRegional and funded by Defra’s Advisory Commitee on Consumer Products and the Environment.
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Introduction

BioRegional Development Group has been commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on behalf of the Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment (ACCPE), to complete a study into the potential role of a homes eco-label. It is proposed that such a tool could be used by all players in the housing market to promote more sustainable homes.

The study focuses on exploring how the Building Research Establishment’s existing EcoHomes scheme might be developed into a scheme covering all homes and the possible scope to base it on the widely recognised A-G format of the EU energy label.

In addition ACCPE wish to compare this BRE eco-rating approach with ecological footprinting methodology, to see to what extent the two methodologies yield similar ratings.

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