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Consultation proposals

1. Do you broadly agree with the statements on what 'equivalent' should not mean, in delivery of amended building standards to address energy and environmental performance?

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In the text box below, please provide information on why you agree or disagree or if you consider other actions need to be considered.
Equivalent is a watering down of the standard and will diminish the results as it may allow proven technologies to be potentially not included, undermining the benefits of PH

2. Do you broadly agree with the statements on what ‘equivalent’ should require consideration of, in delivery of amended building standards to address energy and environmental performance?

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In the text box below, please provide information on why you agree or disagree or if you consider other actions need to be considered.
Because PH is a wholistic house type which provides proven results and benefits for the householder

Proposed components of the standard: design

3. On the basis that the Home Energy Model (HEM) and Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM) are reviewed and shown to report representative outcomes, do you support the continued use of calculation tools which implement the UK methodologies?

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In the text box below, please provide information on why you agree or disagree or if you consider other actions need to be considered, including your experience of PHPP as a calculation tool.
Given that the new HEM wrapper for Scotland is correctly developed to meet outcomes in line with the PH tools.

4. Do you support retention of the current approach and the setting of relative performance targets for new buildings through an approved calculation methodology?

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No
In the text box below, please provide information on why you agree or disagree or if you consider other actions need to be considered.
Because vague targets only can deliver vague outcomes what is need is a precise target for a home to achieve.

5. Do you agree with the proposal to retain delivered energy, covering only regulated energy use, as the main compliance metric for targets set under standard 6.1 (energy demand)?

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In the text box below, please provide information on why you agree or disagree or if you consider other actions need to be considered.
Because this methodology does not take into account of the homes total energy usage and hence is a bit of a greenwashing exercise.

6. Do you support further consideration of the introduction of a prescriptive space heating demand limit for new buildings through building regulations?

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No
If you answered 'Yes', in the text box below, please provide information on what form of prescription you would support and the potential benefits and/or risks this may create.
Because this drives healthy living conditions eliminated cold spots and damp and mould from the home.

7. Do you support the move to application of regional climate data within the approved calculation methodologies and their application within compliance targets?

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No
In the text box below, please provide information on why you agree or disagree or if you consider other actions need to be considered.
As this enables homes to be built to local conditions thus making an optimal heating and cooling requirement, so that these are designed to correct size and loadings, so as to minimise costs without loss of performance

13. Do you consider that Passivhaus Certification offers a feasible alternative means of compliance with standard 6.1 (energy demand)?

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No
In the text box below, please provide information on why you agree or disagree and on the extents to which this alternative might be usefully applied in practice.
Simply because it is proven, scalable and readily available.

Call for information on current standards

26. Are you currently designing buildings to the February 2023 standards and have confirmed specifications, which are at a stage that have been or will be used in a building warrant application, that you are happy to share with us?

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27. With regards to the current approach to target setting and overheating risk, do you have experience related to either of these two issues you consider useful to inform review of the current published guidance or this review of current energy and environmental standards?

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28. Have you undertaken any projects under the post-2023 energy standards which considered connection to a new or existing heat network, both district heat networks and communal heating systems?

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Proposed delivery programme

30. Do you agree with the proposal to mandate the standard in 2028, introducing changes initially as a voluntary standard from 2026?

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Not sure
In the text box below, please provide information on why you agree or disagree or if you consider other options need to be considered.
Whilst I agree I do feel this should be sooner given the size of the environmental problem, which are are adding to each day this adoption of PH is not made mandatory

About you

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