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The 25 Million Home Makeover

40 percent house is a demand-side energy strategy to deliver 60% carbon saving in the UK’s residential energy use by 2050.

The 40 percent/ Lower Carbon Futures research team

The 40percent research team

front row (right to left): Dr Brenda Broadman (Programme Leader), Dr Russell Layberry; second row: Catherine Bottrill, Dr Sarah Darby, Dr Kevin Lane, James Keirstead; third row: Dr Tina Fawcett, Graham Sinden, Rudra Kapila, Dr Chris Jardine, Gavin Killip.

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40 per cent house research has been presented at the following events:

02.Jun.06…..BBC2’s the Money Programme, ‘The Cost of Going Green’

03.Apr.06…...International Solar Cities Congress, Oxford

23.Feb.06…...EcoBuild Conference, London

08.Dec.05….. Welish HECA, Annual Conference

07.Dec.05….. Construction Industry Environment Forum, Manchester

05.Dec.05….. Construction Industry Environment Forum, Glasgow

30.Nov.05….. Renewable Action for London

09.Nov.05….. Fuel Poverty Solutions, Energy Action Scotland, Glasgow

16.Nov.05….. Renewable Futures, Regen SW, Weston-Super-Mare

10.Nov.05…..UK Energy to 2050, The Geological Society, London

13.Oct.05…... Energy Solutions, Energy Institute, London

10.Oct.05…... Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN), Oxford

28.Sep.05…. Parliamentary Warm Homes Group, London

26.Sep.05….. Labour Housing Group, Brighton

22.Sep.05….. British Institute for Energy Economics (BIEE), Oxford

20.Sep.05….. Keeping the Lights On, University of Lancaster, Lancaster

26.Aug.05….. Energy Security WG, European Forum Alpbach, Austria

07.Jul.05…... Association of Environmentally Conscious Buildings (AECB)

15.Jun.05…... Energy Savings Trust, London

30.May.05…. ECEEE, France

26.May.05…. World Renewable Energy Congress, Aberdeen

18.May.05…. LEEP, Edinburgh

17.May.05…. Real Time Energy Feedback Forum, Ottawa, Canada

10.May.05…. HECA Annual Conference, Bournemouth

23.Mar.05…. 40% House Launched, The Royal Society, London

40 percent house research in the media:

Mar.06 – Brenda Boardman. Exchange of Fire: Bring on the bulldozer? Green Futures. Issue 57

03.Oct.05 – Gavin Killip. How to achieve the 40% House, New Statesman: supplement on Life Beyond Oil.

Autumn 05 – Sarah Darby. Changing the housing climate, Challenge.

July 05 – Sarah Darby. 40% carbon emissions, 100% comfort, Energy Action issue 96.

July 05 – Sarah Darby. Housing for a changing climate, Local Government First.

05.06.05 – Chris Jardine – ITV Central News. Sunday Morning News Show.

30.May.05 – Charles Clover. 3m Homes ‘Should be demolished’ to Cut Global Warming. The Daily Telegraph

May 05 – Jan Carlos Kucharek. Emissions Impossible?, RIBA Journal. pp. 67-68

May 05 – Amanda Baillieu. Editorial, RIBA Journal. pp. 7

April 05 – Energy in Buildings and Industry. More Homes Must Be Demolished.

21.Apr.05 – Oxford University Blue Print. Report Urges Action to Cut Carbon Emissions from British Homes. pp. 2

April.05 – ENDS. Plan for Deep CO2 Cuts in Housing Sector, Report 363. pp. 11-12

30.Mar.05 – Brenda Boardman. Brave New World, Guardian

23.Mar.05 – BBC Online. Call to Demolish Polluting Homes