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Greenspace Live are delighted to announce Cadsoft Solutions Limited have been appointed an Authorised Reseller for our gTools product suite for SketchUp.

SketchUp users can use the gTools gModeller plugin as a quick, easy and cost-efficient way to import models into a state of readiness for Energy performance analysis using the Greenspace gEnergy plug in. User can also export the newly attributed model file into other analysis engines such as Autodesk’s green building studio or Revit.

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greenspaceLive  are part of the AIDA consortium; why not check it out?

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Scottish finance secretary John Swinney announces that £30million will be provided this year and next for energy efficiency, focusing on helping people improve home insulation as well as increasing energy efficiency in the public sector.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206383/Recession-Scotland-goes-180m-spree-extra-funds-schools-housing-green-economy.html#ixzz27PuoSvt6

greenspaceLive are proud to reveal our new look website!

We’ve overhauled the look and feel of the site, as well as allowing you to sign in, register and share with LinkedIn and/or Facebook!

As well as an update to our website, we also have a new version of gWorkspace available!

We’ve made many improvements to gWorkspace. Here’s a small sample of what’s new:

greenspaceLive will be doing server maintenance and upgrades over the 29th of August. During this time, access to greenspaceLive software services may be affected. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Hebridean Housing Parnership (HHP) was delighted with the announcement in Nivember 2011 by the Department of Energy And Climate Change (DECC) that HHP is one of twenty four social housing providers across the UK to have been awarded a share of the £4 million fund to install green heating systems in the houses of their tenants. There were 125 bids submitted. HHP received the highest level of the award – £175k. The Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker said:

“This scheme directly targets many of the people who could struggle to pay their heating bills in the winter and I am pleased so many in the social housing orgainsations acress the country will be able to get a share of the cash. It will encourage an increase in the number of new heating technologies in social housing and help people deal with expensive fuel costs.”

Commenting on the award, the Chairman of HHP, George Lonie, said that the grant was a welcome boost to HHP’s goals of reducing the level of fuel poverty being experienced by tenants.

The bids were evaluated by a panel of experts including the Scottish and Welsh Governments, Energy Savings Trust and DECC representatives.

greenspaceLive have been engaged to carry out a study on a number of houses and the results of the study will inform future survey and investment works.

Extract  from HHP – Homeward (July 2012)

In 2011 Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) were successful in their bid for Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). HHP were one of only a dozen Housing Associations in the UK to receive the full funding amount of £175,000 which went towards the installation, and monitoring of Air Source Heat Pumps. HHP impressed the judging panel, which included experts from the Scottish and Welsh Government, Energy Saving Trust and DECC.

A representative of DECC said the HHP bid was exemplary. On the 28th May HHP were asked to help the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) launch a new £10 million scheme aimed at installing renewable heating across Great Britain.

The second phase of the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP2) is a competition available to all UK social landlords including HHP. HHP Investment Manager, Peter O’Donnell and Donald Macritchie, Director of Greenspace gave a presentation to industry leaders at the event in St Martins in the Field in London alongside the Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker. The presentation was well received by those attending including DECC and the Energy Savings Trust. Greenspace are based at Lews Castle College UHI and provide consulting support to HHP Chair George Lonie said: “I am delighted that HHP have been recognised on the national stage for the work we are doing in trying to combat the significant challenge of fuel poverty in the Western Isles. We are also delighted to be able to assist DECC in the launch of the next round of funding for the RHPP social landlord competition.”

HHP will now be looking to prepare a bid for RHPP2 to enable more homes within our stock to have access to renewable heating systems.

Congratulations to Alexandre Braz who has won the bottle of Highland Park whisky for completing our user survey!

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Thanks to all who came along to visit us at Ecobuild this year, we hope you had a good a time as we did!

We’re still running our 15% off Ecobuild promotion, why not take advantage while you still can?

In-case you weren’t able to attend or lost all your materials from us (We know, papers everywhere) we’ve made everything available on-line!

You can still download our digital brochure here.

Download our digital case study here. 

Learn more and register for Project Rapier here: www.projectrapier.com

If you have any further enquiries, email us at:
info@greenspacelive.com

View some images of our visit below!

This year we will also be attending Ecobuild, where we’ll be exhibiting all the gModeller products as well as showing off Rapier, a prototype software that rapidly produces cost, energy and carbon lifecycle analysis of new build projects. You can find us at Stand 2367. You can register for free http://www.ecobuild.co.uk/register.html. We look forward to seeing you there.