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Radon in Residential Property Location: none
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas and is the product of Uranium decay. It is found in a wide range of rocks and soils and in turn building materials derived from these rocks. Outdoors ...
Carbon allowances and Carbon Trading Location: none
Emissions trading, currently confined to large businesses, is emerging as a key instrument in the drive to reduce GHG emissions. The UK scheme is open to the 6,000 companies with Climate Change ...
Energy Consumption Location: none
The transport sector is the largest single consumer of energy in the UK, accounting for 34% of the total. The domestic sector was responsible for a further 30% and industry for another 22%. The ...
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Location: none
Before renewable sources of energy are considered for any construction, consideration should first be given to ensuring maximum energy efficiency. In new construction, it is in theory possible to ...
Mitigating Climate Change Location: none
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that there is a link between rising average world temperatures and the levels of the key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and that man’s activities are ...
What is renewable energy? Location: none
The most widely used definition of renewable energy is ‘energy flows which are replenished at the same rate as they are used.’
Renewable energy may be direct (such as solar water heating) or ...
On Shore Wind Location: none
There are effectively two options available to landowners: either to lease land to a wind developer for large scale turbines, or where wind resources allow, consider farm scale free standing ...
Anaerobic Digestion Location: none
Biogas is produced through the anaerobic digestion (i.e. digestion in the exclusion of air) of plant and animal matter in sealed tanks, producing methane (which when cleaned has the properties of ...
Green Leases Location: none
With buidings resposible for almost 50 % of the UKs energy consumption it was only going to be a matter of time before commercial premises played catch up with the residential sector. to reduce the ...