New home designs - Creating a greener house

By choosing building products with low ‘embodied energy’ when designing your house, you can make an enormous difference to greenhouse emissions. Read more to find out about how using green building principles and eco-friendly materials when building your home can reduce your eco-footprint.

These days it’s completely normal, and in some cases mandatory, to satisfy minimum energy efficiency building regulations, to make new homes as energy efficient as possible. But for several years, as the building industry has been obsessing over reducing a home’s running costs, and the public has been wrongly assuming brick is one of the most environmentally friendly building products, researchers have been busy compiling data about the products that are used to build a house. The results are extremely helpful for anybody interested in doing their bit to reduce global warming.