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The Base Conference at Bradford Uni included a short talk by Skanska that explained that because they could get paid by the UK Government to burn bio fuel for the next 20 years. They would not be improving the insulation of that building. This is as a result of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) payment system. The business case is that the RHI maintains energy waste. It does not encourage applicants to add any further insulation to their HQ building for 20 yrs. In short (RHI) actually pays compliant applicants to waste heat for 20 yrs because there is no base performance requirement on the inherent fuel efficiency of the building fabric being subsidised by the RHI. It seems that instead of SKANSKA being at the forefront of energy efficiency they are helping Government cook the books on Co2 accounting. Of course burning sustainable ( replaceable/ re-growable) energy sources is in the long term desirable over fossil fuels. But the RHI does nothing for the real Co2 accounting. SKANSKA seem to be window dressing and not giving a real commitment to reducing Co2 with thid particular measure. How have they managed to manoeuvre into this position of trust with the Government when they are more commercially astute than environmentally astute. It would seem that ££££ wins over environment again with these environmental leaders? All in the name of Sustainability! "stuff the environment?" PS. I questioned the speaker on this and he was clearly embarrassed to admit it at the time. PPS. I do hope that they can report that they have changed tack. PPPS Green Construction Board indeed. OWLarchitecture.com