Housing Minister Grant Shapps recently re-affirmed his commitment for all new build homes to be zero-carbon from 2016. He also confirmed the work, carried out last year for the previous Government, in creating the 'Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard'.

Is the timescale realistic and what needs to happen to achieve this? Andrew Morphet of Synergy Property Services Ltd comments:

When the going gets tough; the tough get going: Few would deny that the going is tough; so it follows that businesses that are going to come out of this recession successfully will be those that make tough decisions and get going.

One such tough decision is to seek help: Synergy Property Services offers practical, straight forward energy management solutions to cutting energy costs without compromising the business; offering solutions where the saving is guaranteed – not a tough decision at all!