Mears Group, the UK’s leading provider of domiciliary care and social housing repair and maintenance, has signed up as a principle sponsor of nationwide sustainability initiative, SHIFT. Sustainable

VPhase plc (AIM: VPHA), a leading developer of energy saving products for residential and commercial properties, has signed up as principle sponsor of nationwide sustainability initiative, SHIFT. The

The Green Deal is a big deal. It is the central plank of Government policy to reduce carbon emissions from homes – and it is looking increasingly viable and imminent. In June we are running two events

New official guidance, to be launched in summer 2011, will make sustainability features a core consideration in the valuation of homes. This may have real benefits for house builders, landlords and ho

We are quite excited. Our resident engagement work is going from strength to strength.  First of all we have had strong feedback that our training impacts on resident behavior. We have also been asked

Passivhaus is a fast growing energy efficiency standard with 30,000 properties realised to date. Passivhaus is based on a few simple principles – (1) to build houses which have excellent thermal perfo

Last Thursday we launched a new page on our website offering Information for Architects and Specifiers. The page is specially targeted to architects to give them a little more information on specifyin

Your business is on Twitter your doing Social Media.. Okay so you’re on the shiny new uber digital thing-emy-whatist- you’re officially a Tweep! Happiness is pushing out your PR and insightful thou

Following on from our blog on Twitter etiquette basics we’re sharing five practical approaches that will help you enhance your Tweeting-ness - so that your social media efforts produce real gain for

  On March 24th housing organisations and Government will come together with architects and building contractors from across the country to act on climate change.   The conference, which will be ope