The UK’s housing stock must be resilient to rising heat levels, experts warn, with retrofitting of older properties also neededAs anyone sweltering in the current UK heatwave can attest, the country’s housing stock is woefully unsuited to heat.Much of it is antiquated, dating from a time when the priorities were protecting from the cold and rain. Yet most new-build properties are similarly unready for experts’ predictions that, by the middle of the century, there will be temperatures on the level of summer 2018’s highs every other year. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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