Get Informed

Once you have decided you want to make energy-efficiency improvements to your home, SEA can help you get the information you need to make the most suitable decisions for your property. Within this section you can find out more about the measures that you can install in your home, download relevants reports and resources and make use of the My Green Builder database.

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Resources

Below is a list of useful resources for anyone seeking to learn more about energy efficiency or carbon reduction in older buildings. If you are aware of other information that may be of use to others seeking to improve the energy efficiency of their homes, please get in touch.

The Future is Local

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Read the latest Sustainable Development Commission report. The Future is Local

Survey Monkey

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Read the fantastic results of previous visits to SuperHomes!

Dampness in walls

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

See the presentation given by Tadj Oresezczyn at the Alliance meeting 22nd January 2010. Dampness in walls

Meeting Carbon Budgets – Report to Parliament

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Read the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) first progress report to Parliament – Meeting Carbon Budgets – the need for a step change 12 Oct 2009. Lord Nicholas Stern welcomed the report and called it ‘…a report which charts both the way forward in monitoring targets, emissions and policies and shows what will be required [...]

Ecofys report: The Economics of Retrofit

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Read the  report_economics_of_retrofit12,  commissioned by eceee – European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (Aug 31, 2009).

Meeting Carbon Budgets

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Read the Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) first progress report to Parliament – Meeting Carbon Budgets – the need for a step change 12 Oct 2009. Lord Nicholas Stern welcomed the report and called it ‘…a report which charts both the way forward in monitoring targets, emissions and policies and shows what will be required [...]