Green Deal workshop for small builders
DECC wants to help SME’s understand the scheme
The government has given a powerful signal that it intends to include SMEs in its forthcoming Green Deal retrofitting scheme, by setting a date for its first workshop for small builders on 15 June.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change will host the meeting of half a dozen SMEs and civil servants at a workshop in Whitehall.
The aim of the event is to give builders a better understanding of how they can get involved in the energy efficiency retrofit scheme.
There have been widespread concerns about the retrofit scheme among small builders.
This was highlighted by a recent study showing that 44% of small builders believed that homeowners were unlikely to take up the Green Deal.
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The Green Deal is a con cooked up by the triumverate of Ministerial talking heads, Shapps, Barker and Huhne. It is all hot air and hollow promises and there will be no real financial incentive provided to home owners to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Why? Because lobbying from the energy companies and the construction industry will scupper the radical upgrading of the Building Regulations to PassivHaus standards which is urgently required to force UK building contractors to build to completely different standards compared with their normal rubbish. If the Government were serious about green building there would be no VAT on insulation materials and mortgage/stamp duty discounts on eco-homes. Renewables are expensive and have a limited life. Insulation is cheap and lasts for ever