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George Adams, engineering director,<br />
Spie Matthew Hall<br />
Laurence Aston, director, Buro Happold<br />
Patrick Conaghan, partner, Hoare Lea<br />
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Nick Mead, group technical director,<br />
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AECOM<br />
Alan Tulla, president, the Society of Light and<br />
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Ged Tyrrell, managing director,<br />
Tyrrell Systems<br />
Ant Wilson, director, AECOM<br />
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editorial<br />
Budget scores zero<br />
for homes U-turn<br />
there w<strong>as</strong> much to applaud in l<strong>as</strong>t month’s Budget,<br />
which provided some genuinely good news on the built<br />
environment. In just one example, much concern had<br />
previously surrounded the proposed Green Investment Bank,<br />
which will be a crucial mechanism for funding technological<br />
growth and development.<br />
Its coffers were to be limited to just £1bn of start-up finding,<br />
and it w<strong>as</strong>n’t going to be allowed to operate <strong>as</strong> an investment<br />
bank. But, according to the Budget, its start-up funding is to be<br />
trebled; it will operate a year earlier than expected; and it does<br />
seem that it will be given some leeway to act <strong>as</strong> an actual bank.<br />
This would have been the main green headline from the<br />
Budget. However, a document published alongside the Budget<br />
details revealed an apparently significant backtracking by<br />
the government on its commitment to make all new homes<br />
‘zero carbon’ from 2016 (News, page 6).<br />
Although the details are not fully clear at<br />
time of writing, it seems that ministers<br />
have effectively watered down the whole<br />
definition of ‘zero carbon’ by explicitly ruling<br />
out a household’s use of everyday plug-in<br />
electrical appliances from the scope of the<br />
Building Regulations.<br />
Why? We can only <strong>as</strong>sume that ministers<br />
are yet again kow-towing to the house-building lobby – and<br />
thereby undermining Chancellor Osborne’s claim that the<br />
Budget demonstrates the government’s commitment to being<br />
‘the greenest ever’.<br />
When it comes to meeting green targets, we need a much<br />
more uncompromising approach. Otherwise, we can forget<br />
about having any real chance of achieving what the<br />
targets – including the 2016 deadline for zero<br />
carbon homes – were actually all<br />
about: real change.<br />
We can only<br />
<strong>as</strong>sume that<br />
ministers are yet<br />
again kow-towing<br />
to the house-<br />
building lobby<br />
Bob Cervi, Editor<br />
bcervi@cibsejournal.com<br />
www.cibsejournal.com April 2011 <strong>CIBSE</strong> <strong>Journal</strong> 5
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