The UK Government has unveiled an ambitious retrofit programme that seeks significant improvement to the energy … efficiency of the housing stock. High quality data on the energy efficiency of buildings and their related energy demand is …

This article outlines the key characteristics of sustainable housing, including environmental, economic and social … dimensions. It uses these characteristics to assess housing and regeneration in Dublin since the early 1980s. While regeneration … has improved some areas, there are a number of causes for concern. Barriers to achieving sustainable housing include the …

the industrial sector's total productivity, the propensities to consume the resource, to consume housing and to save. Our …

practices in construction, the building and housing sector is seeking to mitigate its environmental impact as well as assume a … greater social responsibility. The overarching policy objectives set to concretize what a sustainable housing development … housing faces multiple challenges as varying interests and perspectives collide. Supported by empirical findings of a semi …

insurance and retrofit. The framework includes a stochastic programming optimization to represent insurer decisions, which … interacts with a utility-based model of individual homeowners’ decisions to insure and/or retrofit. Reinsurer and government … encourage retrofit, providing both a government subsidy and insurance rebate to reduce retrofit costs, and mandating insurance …