Still not completed your ESOS audit? There is still time; the Environmental Agency has issued 'warning notices' to Director level of companies that they must comply within 3 months of the December 5th deadline or receive financial penalties. CIS have carried out a number of ESOS audits and are available to carry out your audit in order to ensure your compliance in time. If your company still needs to comply please get in touch with out team on admin@climateintegratedsolutions.co.uk 28th Janua...

CIS works with Places for People in a number of their leisure centres across the country to help deliver energy efficiency measures. most recently CIS have just completed the delivery and install of LED Lighting to Riverside Leisure Centre in Norwich. This install has been funded by SALIX (government funding) and surveyed, installed and project managed by the CIS team. For information on how we can help you, along with how to access funding, get in touch with the CIS on admin@climateintegratedso...

Germany have implemented new construction requirements as of 1st January 2016. Heating new buildings without the use of renewable energy is no longer permitted throughout Germany. As of January anyone building a new development in Germany must reach the maximum primary energy requirement that is 25% lower than the previous threshold. For more information please see http://www.sunwindenergy.com/new-buildings-germany-now-required-to-use-renewable-energy-heating 15th January 2016  

As we welcome the new Home Quality Mark (HQM), and start to get to grips with the new mechanisms and criteria introduced by BRE, we find ourselves looking back fondly to Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) and relishing our final few CSH projects. The CSH has not been updated since 2010, except for a small addendum to bring it in line with current Building Regulations. This resulted in a standard we knew inside out and one that developers felt comfortable they could achieve cost effectively. How...

The government's response to the consultation on the Feed in Tariff has slightly relaxed cuts to domestic scale systems from an 86.4% cut (against the January 2016 tariff) to a 63.5% cut. All solar PV tariffs will still be subject to cuts of between 58% and 72%. Once prices have normalised following the rush to complete systems before the cuts, it is likely that individual domestic systems will receive paybacks in 12 years or so assuming 50% on site usage. Social housing PV retrofits and othe...

CIS are delighted to announce that the London Borough of Lambeth have re-awarded planning and policy energy and sustainability support to CIS for 2016. We are looking forward to continue to work with London Borough of Lambeth over the coming months on the review of planning applications and to develop an energy and sustainability policy statement for the borough. 24th December 2015

Following the launch of BRE's Home Quality Mark CIS were keen to see what changes had been made following the consultation in the summer and how the scheme now compares to the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) and BREEAM schemes. Some of our first observations are:  A greater emphasis is put onto the location of the home and the surrounding services than CSH, this is also more in line with BREEAM assessments.  The scheme will allow the design team to look at the development technically an...

BRE launch technical manual for the Home Quality Mark (HQM) just before Christmas - HQM is a voluntary and customer focused assessment and certification scheme. Our consultants took part in the first training session for HQM and are ready to help clients achieve the Home Quality Mark Certificate. For more information contact Elise by email on admin@climateintegratedsolutions.co.uk 18th December 2015