Government urged to relax zero carbon building standard

James S Murray
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Construction industry claims more flexible definition is needed to meet Budget target of all new buildings being zero carbon by 2019

The UK's leading green building trade group has warned that the government will not meet its new target to ensure all new non domestic buildings are zero carbon by 2019 unless it adopts a more flexible...

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