The 5th Edge Debate: 22nd April 1998

Action Points from the Fifth Debate

The following points were made in discussion by members of the audience, invited to the 5th Edge Debate. They are not necessarily the views of the Edge Committee or any of the participating institutions or organisations. They are simply a record, in summary, of what was said.

1. The Edge Committee to disseminate the following actions to the Press, the Institutions and the Government.
2. Encourage employers to purchase energy/energy saving on behalf of employees
3. Focus on existing stock/domestic sector
4. Return to previous levels of expenditure and direct to existing stock
5. Low interest loans/cash-backs/domestic sector
6. Onerous energy targets (kWh/year/sq m) in Building Regs
7. Ambitious national strategy for existing stock (SAP 60?) – focus energy service companies /neighbourhood
8. Burnett Bill
9. School initiatives - savings of 10% for £50/Neighbourhood Engineers. All have sectors of community we can influence
10. Invest savings in school PV
11. Hearts and mind exercise not economic argument
12. Requirement on resale of houses to upgrade stock
13. Distinction between domestic and industrial sector
14. Lobby for the RECs to invest in the KWh that is not used. Gov't intend to improve on this?
15. Campaign for companies to produce annual energy/environment audits and encourage to take 10-year view (not 2-year view)
16. Train the people to use the technology that already exists/energy efficiently/immediate payback periods
17. Client pull
18. Institutions to endorse seriously of situation to obliged members on course of action
19. Benchmarking/ range of handholds
20. Re-present In Trust for Tomorrow/radical programme for existing stock
21. Lobbying against a/c (smoking parallels?)
22. Designing to targets?
23. Cheaper training courses
24. Practical and phased timing towards energy targets (Part L)/incentives and tax breaks for low energy design
25. Dysfunctional buildings vs dysfunctional occupancy
26. Lobby gov't to formulate regs/energy utilisation to apply to existing stock when its systems are replaced
27. Variety of other means to target existing buildings/training
28. How can this sector make tradable permits work
29. Fabric investment programme/lever for money to be invested
30. Innovative tariff structures
31. Incentives for energy targets/pump priming
32. LBL/70 ways reducing building insurance/Electro-finance
33. Focus on consultation paper(s)
34. Equal pain across all sectors