Is a Good Quality Home just about location, size, character and where it is located? Perhaps with some average indication of what the energy bills are? Many are focussed on kitchens and bathrooms or perhaps those electric gates and lions…. Surely a quality home is more than this, more than those areas that can be easily changed? Read the blog by BRE’s Gwyn Roberts on the Grand Designs Live website.
Our homes have a significant influence on our health & wellbeing - despite this 20% of housing stock in England does not meet national Decent Homes Standards. How do we improve housing quality? Learn more about how #desigining & #building to #HQM can help https://homequalitymark.com/2019/07/25/its-time-we-make-healthy-homes-the-norm/
Are you looking for a home quality rating that you can trust? Homes that are built to #HQM provide clear independent and reliable information to help you when choosing a new home to buy or rent. Ask your local housing developer about #HQM today http://www.homequalitymark.com/homeowners/
The #HQM offers a range of methodologies like our temperature tool which helps mitigate risks of overheating & the #energy engine to calculate energy & #carbon performance. These offer a robust perspective of the likely in-use performance & consumption. http://www.homequalitymark.com/filelibrary/Manuals/HQM-ONE-Technical-Manual--SD239-.pdf
