Introduction
The Code for Sustainable Homes is a world leading all-round measure of the environmental sustainability, ensuring that new homes deliver real improvements in key areas such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions and water use.
- The Government’s objective for the Code is that it becomes the single national standard for the design and construction of homes, and that it drives a step-change in sustainable home building practice.
- The aim to make the system
of gaining a Code assessment as simple, transparent and
rigorous as possible, a process that inspires confidence in Code assessors, home builders, product manufacturers and, crucially, consumers. - The Code supersedes EcoHomes and with it, it lifts the standards required for energy and water consumption.
The Government has indicated its intention to use the code as the
basis of future Building Regulations Part L (1A) changes, proposing
it as a route map for new homes to become net-Zero Carbon by 2016.
The Code defines 6 Levels of environmental sustainability:
An increasing proportion of credits are
needed to satisfy each level, of which a mandatory
proportion are energy and water, reflecting the growing importance
of climate change and potable water availability. |
The Code for Sustainable Homes Route Map
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