New Best Practice programme publications from the Energy Efficiency Office provide the building industry with guidance on construction design for well insulated new houses, writes Peter Barton-Wood, BRECSU

Douglas Haughey, BRECSU, highlights the need for authoritative guidance on improving the performance of industrial buildings.

Inadequate controls - by today's standards - are estimated to cost industry and commerce £500 million a year in wasted ener9y. Terry Walters, chairman of the Building Controls Group of the Energy Systems Trade Association, looks at the opportunities in ventilation and air conditioning.

The environmental assessment of buildings is a potentially powerful means of reducing environmental impacts including those arising from energy consumption, writes Josephine Prior, Alan Yates and Paul Bartlett, Building Research Establishment