Encouraging the houses free of contamination
Some time ago the United Kingdom began to give the necessary importance to issues of energy efficiency at home. While architects are increasingly aware of the importance of global warming, there is still a long way (especially in Chile) to search for energy efficiency in the design of the houses is the issue that moves the industry. Given the high contaminant that have dwellings with gas emissions and fuel combustion, it is expected that by 2016 all the houses in the United Kingdom are free of contaminants. How would they? very English, encouraging people to reduce taxes. Things to do in Chile? Let's see.
The UK Government is pushing for inserting an active housing zero carbon (zero-carbon houses). For this, they created a discount of £ 15,000 in taxes by buying houses that have the green seal. Currently in England and throughout the United Kingdom there are equal amount of rebates for those who have homes costing less than £ 500,000. In Chile, on the other hand, there are tax cuts to the housing DFL2, which reward size, not price.
Returning to the issue of housing in the UK. Although English law rewards the construction of cheaper housing, the cost of building a home free of pollution or zero-carbon houses are quite expensive, given the technology required. For this, it is also proposed to reward all those houses that had the green seal of zero-carbon, reducing taxes. In this way it is expected that by 2016 no new houses that do not have a waste and carbon emissions. One important thing, this benefit of lowering of tariffs could not be applied to second homes, beach house understood or rest.
I think what it is regulation?
Basically to promote housing construction and green to generate public awareness about the benefits of living in a home with zero carbon emissions. The concept seeks to eliminate the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The ventanjas of these homes is that they do not consume fossil fuels to generate heat and energy, have excellent insulation and renewable energy used to power the house through microgeneration. These homes use heat sources of biomass, photo voltaic cells, solar water heaters and wind turbines.
The idea sounds very good, but UK has not yet defined the standards that lead to a house to be considered zero-carbon. It is expected that by the end of November 2007 there is agreement between specialists to go to the initiative.
Bridging the gap between UK and Chile, this benefit for the houses "green" would be something like just over 15 million Chilean pesos. Clear that the final cost of housing between the English and Chile are significant. Despite this, Chile has certain institutional tools such as tax cuts UF 200 for the purchase of housing in urban renewal areas. This grant has been studied by several authors 2 and currently is not binding on the purchase of houses, due to the stability of the real estate market. If we then resources in the air "by not cleaning the land to build houses for a free of contaminants. Gentlemen architects, we believe the strategy.
1. Taking wind. For ventilation in summer.
2. Solar array on the back of the house for hot water and electricity
3. High level of insulation in walls
4. Biomass boiler