Victorian Homes are the hardest to eco-refurbish

Phlorum has had a paper published in the March edition of the Environmentalist, the magazine sent to all 14,000 members of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). The paper was written by Anthony Probert and is entitled ‘Tenant Participation in the Sustainable Refurbishment of Victorian Properties’. Anthony carried out the research whilst studying for his MSc, and concludes that whilst the idea of tenant participation is conducive to achieving widespread sustainable refurbishment of hard-to-treat homes, tenants’ lack of desire to participate has been fuelled by disappointment in previous landlord initiatives.

A copy of the paper can be downloaded by IEMA members from the IEMA website. Those interested who are not IEMA members can obtain a copy by emailing us at info@phlorum.com.

David Miliband meets Phlorum

An exciting day for us today at Phlorum’s southern office.

David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, popped by. He was here to meet with Elektromotive, a brilliant company that’s doing wonderful things with electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

However, we managed to spend some time with him to discuss our life cycle carbon assessment tool that’s currently being showcased at Ecobuild. David Miliband was impressed, which gives us greater confidence that the life cycle carbon assessment tool will be of use to those currently carrying out SAP, BREEAM and Code for Sustainable Homes assessments. Maybe he’ll even mention it to his brother, Ed, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which would be nice!