CLPM help improve running costs for Oxford home We’ve just been appointed to carry out a full sustainability review to improve running costs on a beautiful Edwardian home near Oxford. Our clients are planning to fully refurbish and update their home. The works will include drawing up plans to remodel and reconfigure the existing…
Time to tackle home energy efficiency? Don’t we all want to feel like this? With ever changing weather patterns, and climate change throwing up surprises. And after what was a mild and wet winter last year, the weather experts are forecasting a colder, drier winter for 2014/5. Certainly the de-icer and scraper have had…
We’ve just been appointed to give a sustainability review on an old stone built Scottish croft dating from the 1820’s so it’s a challenge!
How much would you pay to have electricity all the time? My niece is in Guiana doing a gap year working for an educational charity. They only have electricity on occasion and so it is much more appreciated when it is connected. There is a rush to charge mobile phones, laptops and e-readers (well, the…
Go Beyond Building Regulations. We have found this blog from 10 years ago – and the advice couldn’t be more relevant to todays home builders. The regulations were made more energy focussed in 2022, and with the focus on reducing carbon and moving to renewable technologies, there are more planned to come. So, the essence…
Project Management For A Sustainable New Home The CLPM building project management team provide a variety of construction project management services. CLPM also provide onsite support for a broad range of residential and commercial clients. Our construction project management team regularly work with homeowners and business owners alike. We also work with architectural practices, religious…
Retrofitting to PassivHaus standard The secret in obtaining the best possible air test rating is paying attention to detail as early as possible in the project. That is the key to retrofitting to PassivHaus standards. By the time one comes to air testing, a good way through the project, it is already too late…
Insulating central heating pipes. Talking about insulation of central heating pipes… You’ve specified a band A condensing boiler. You know how to set it up, the radiators are the right size and you think you can now relax and let the plumber install it all, right? Actually no! There is one more area you…
UK Energy Resources – biogas. Another technology getting a bit of a move on is anaerobic digestion of putrescible wastes to give biogas. No, please don’t yawn and click away! If nothing else there’s a few high-scoring words for a scrabble game. As a country, we produce around 15 million tonnes of food wastes…
Health issues with wooden pellets releasing carbon monoxide. The Churches Legislation Advisory Service have issued the following statement about wood pellets. The Health and Safety Executive has issued a Safety Notice Risk of carbon monoxide release during the storage of wood pellets. For the attention of users, installers, maintainers and distributors of wood-pellet boilers…