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During a session on transforming<br />
the existing stock, UK Green<br />
Building Council (UKGBC) chief,<br />
Paul King, said people should be<br />
banned from selling their homes<br />
if they don’t meet clearly defi ned<br />
energy effi ciency targets.<br />
In his view, it is the only way<br />
that the government will meet<br />
its own legally binding target of<br />
cutting carbon emissions by 80%<br />
in the built environment by 2050.<br />
King said that the government<br />
needs to tell people that, in 10<br />
years’ time, all homes need to<br />
reach a certain level of energy<br />
effi ciency. He added: ‘It would<br />
send a powerful message. It h<strong>as</strong><br />
to happen.’<br />
But Energy Minister Greg<br />
Barker responded: ‘That’s like the<br />
government saying, “we don’t<br />
trust you to do this”. We’re trying<br />
to get away from that mindset.<br />
We’re trying to empower people<br />
to make them part of the solution<br />
and get them on board.’<br />
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TV presenter Kevin McCloud,<br />
a pioneer of the Great British<br />
Refurb project, stressed the<br />
importance of big retailers, such<br />
<strong>as</strong> M&S and B&Q, entering the<br />
foray by providing insulation and<br />
other retrofi tting packages to<br />
make retrofi tting more accessible<br />
to the householder. He said:<br />
‘Large retailers are becoming very<br />
important in selling products and<br />
moving towards advising and<br />
offering consultancy services.’<br />
Robert Peto, president of<br />
the Royal Institute of Chartered<br />
Surveyors, insisted that VAT needs<br />
CONFERENCE ECOBUILD<br />
Ban home sales if consumers fail to meet<br />
effi cency targets, says UKGBC chief<br />
Left to right: Greg Barker, Paul King (shown<br />
on big screen), session chairman Stephen<br />
Sakur, Kevin McCloud and Robert Peto<br />
to be dropped from the cost of<br />
retrofi tting existing buildings if<br />
people are to engage with the<br />
government’s energy effi ciency<br />
agenda. He also described the<br />
term ‘zero carbon’ <strong>as</strong> a turn-off for<br />
the public, who believe this target<br />
is impossible to achieve.<br />
2015<br />
www.cibsejournal.com April 2011 <strong>CIBSE</strong> <strong>Journal</strong> 21<br />
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