Sean

Treated myself to this absolute beauty of a book. 14 case studies showing that available energy has always been the biggest impact on architecture and built form. 🤓🌍

Goes to show that todays questions about embodied carbon, the energy transition, passive performance, etc have always existed.

Look what arrived on my doormat. Lovely to see a paper copy. 🎉

Now a third of my day runs off of them. 🌍🪁 We'll be a renewable electrostate quicker than the "debate" can keep up.

Love to see 30.1% from wind alone. As a teen I remember print/tv saying they were pointless, tokenistic, virtue signalling, would never work at scale, etc, etc, to try and stop people building them.

Love this National Electricity Grid visual. As recently as 2010, 70% of UK generation was from coal. As of last winter, it's gone for good!

In its place: 37.5% renewables, 14.3% nuclear, 7.4% biomass. Less than a third to go now from fossil fuels (gas power plants).

grid.iamkate.com

I’m 100% into A.I. (Adding Insulation)

Look at this slide from 2023 showing European countries phasing out fossil fuel heating. We (UK) are probably joining them for new homes as soon as next year. It's not that radical! 🌍👷

I wrote this last winter, but with the Future Homes Standard with us as soon as Autumn, solar PV & heat pumps are now the new normal for new build. The end of fossil fuel systems in new homes next year is now almost certain. Lots to be done on retrofit and embodied, but good news is coming fast. 🌍🏠👷

Pleased to share my article 'Climate change and the new building regulations: Limitations and urgent opportunities for construction and building design over the next 25 years' from the Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal & Valuation.

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This is something I'm really delighted we're working on - mainstream, future proof, net zero ready, new build homes with no energy costs. Always knew it was possible, often doubted the conversation would ever get there, fantastic to now see it in action. 👷 🌍 👇

Hydrogen | LETI Hydrogen as a means to deliver energy is often touted as a viable solution to assist in meeting the UK’s net zero carbon target. In this short discussion paper, LETI have sought to investigate this…

As we await the Future Homes Standard, time and again we find ourselves reaching for this excellent guide by our friends at LETI, to help show how heat pumps, not hydrogen boilers, will help us transition our buildings to net zero. Vital context for future changes to the regs:

www.leti.uk/hydrogen

Morning Bluesky. Ever wondered what making a coffee looks like under a surveyors thermal camera? Wonder no more. ☕

This is quite impressive from one of the UK’s largest house builders

They should roll it out across the whole country

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What is a Heat Network? A Brief Guide to District Heating - Build Energy A heat network, or district heating, distributes heat generated at a central location to individual premises for space heating and hot water.

In 1330, a French Commune started using thermal springs to sustainably heat their buildings. Wooden pipes served each home from a central main. They're still doing it today. What can this founding heat network tell us about heating todays cities?

www.buildenergy.co.uk/tips-and-ins...

More than half of new homes are still being fitted with gas boilers even today. As well as these higher bills, all will need to be retrofitted and reconfigured at the cost of thousands within the next couple of decades or sooner. 👇 💰

Had the pleasure of visiting an EV charging superhub recently. No petrol in sight, 44 rapid chargers, some for busses and HGV's. Solar PV generation and storage all on site. Feels like the future. Always fun to see a project from work in the wild too: www.buildenergy.co.uk/projects/ins...

I wrote a short summary of where we are with the Future Homes Standard five years on - in short, nowhere fast. But we know what a future home looks like - well insulated, powered by an electric heat pump, and with as little energy demand from the grid as possible: www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-...

Sending this to anyone asking when the Future Homes Standard comes in. 👷‍♂️🏠🌍

We should ask if you can drive your EV for the 2-4 hours you'd drive an ICE car before you took a 15-30 minute break, setting off again with a full charge. The rapid chargers and models we have provide this for those rare long road trips. Otherwise slow charging overnight is perfect. 🚗⚡️

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#forensictownplanning #CSI-RTPI

Please never change. 🫶

Everyone should join bluesky - a gentler, friendlier space for kind and curious souls to exchange ideas. 👷‍♂️

Roosevelt's response to the dust bowl gives me optimism. Collapse of agriculture, ecology, weather events & mass migration after unsustainble farming feel prescient. The 'New Deal' assistance, employment & retraining in tree planting, soil conserveration etc are a modern transition success story.