A low carbon Building Standards strategy for Scotland (the Sullivan report): 2013 update

Footnotes

1 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/01/4018

2 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:153:0013:0035:EN:PDF

3 Subsequent to our meeting, the Zero Carbon Hub has published their interim report on this topic - 'Closing the gap between design and as-built performance' (July 2013) -
http://www.zerocarbonhub.org/news_details.aspx?article=40

4 http://www.zerocarbonhub.org/

5 Sometimes referred to as 'unregulated energy' - http://www.zerocarbonhub.org/definition.aspx?page=2

6 http://www.zerocarbonhub.org/definition.aspx?page=9

7 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2013-documents, paragraph 1.109 - consultation on Allowable Solutions in England was subsequently launched on 6 August 2013 https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/next-steps-to-zero-carbon-homes-allowable-solutions

8 Subsequent to our meeting, published research on house prices in England (Department for Energy and Climate Change, July 2013) indicates a more positive trend in this area - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/an-investigation-of-the-effect-of-epc-ratings-on-house-prices

9 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/217736/0116377.pdf, as used in http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Building/Building-standards/techbooks/Sustainability

10 Information on EPCs available at www.scotland.gov.uk/epc

11 http://www.breeam.org/about.jsp?id=66

12 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Building/Building-standards/techbooks/Sustainability