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Ecos Renew

This service can help you to make your home more sustainable by offering individual home assessments as well as assist you with your refurbishment project.

At Ecos Renew, we believe you can find a more sustainable home on your own doorstep - evaluate - design - implement - heating - insulation - lighting - ecology - water - waste.

Ecos has a growing reputation as a successful, groundbreaking and independent organisation, dedicated to sustainable living, including building new sustainable homes. However:

• Over a quarter of all the UK’s CO2 emissions come from domestic housing.
• New sustainable homes will set the standard but 99% of housing is already built.

So how can you as an interested householder make your home more sustainable whilst doing it in a way that also makes sense financially? 

Ecos has set up Ecos Renew with a team of assessors to tackle the issues of the environmental performance in existing homes. 

Nowadays there is a confusing array of assessments and standards when considering how to ‘green’ your home. Ecos Renew has reviewed these and produced a practical, ‘user friendly’ system that includes an important guide to priorities for action. 

Ecos Renew is about much more than ‘reducing energy use’ and ‘carbon emissions’. We believe that a more comprehensive approach is needed to allow you, the householder, to achieve a greener, better balanced, quality of life.

Ecos Renew works with you through a two-stage programme, with each stage being a separate, self-contained stage for which relevant costs are applicable. After you contact us, an assessor will meet you in your home for a prearranged assessment visit. The visit will last about two hours. The assessor will survey key elements of your home and discuss your aims for improving your property. Using this information, a detailed report will be produced setting out findings and recommendations. 

If you wish to move forward with the recommendations and begin the actual programme of works then Ecos Renew can provide a flexible service of advice and co-ordination tailored to the degree of assistance that you require.

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it now if you would like to know more about our two stage Home Assessment. 

Please email Jim Cornick with your refurbishment query: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or call Jim on 01458 254271

 

Ecos Renew Assessors

Charles Couzens - Executive director of Ecos Trust and Director of Ecos Homes

Jim Cornick (BSc Hons, MSc Landscape Management) - Managing director of Ecos Renew with extensive experience of sustainable development in both the public and private sector. Within the former he was responsible for forming partnerships and developing policy that funded major urban regeneration and achieving the largest area of low carbon housing in the West Country. Private sector experience includes various refurbishment and new build projects including the construction of "Excellent" Ecohomes within a National Park. He manages the Renew programme that provides a comprehensive system for refurbishing existing properties to high environmental and energy efficiency standards.

Tom Heel  - has worked as a Project Manager for Ecos Homes and is experienced in the practical implementation of sustainable construction projects. He was responsible for ensuring compliance with high levels of the Code for Sustainable Homes, incorporation of sustainable materials and technologies and managing their cost and programme implications. Before joining Ecos, Tom worked for a private developer in mainstream building contracting and commercial property, with a specific interest in sustainable construction.

Ian Egerton  -  was was Marketing and Development Manager of Ecos Homes. Prior to that he worked for Sequence UK Ltd ( Fox & Sons/Allen& Harris) having successfully marketed the Great Bow Yard Development for Ecos as Land Manager for Sequence UK.  Ian has built key relationships with Ecos clients and project partners. Ian has a strong track record in the development, construction and utilities industries.  His roles have included Land Manager, New Homes Manager and Property Sales Manager at Sequence as well as Branch Manager for Countrywide Estate Agents and Surveyor/Team Leader for Thames Water. He has experience liaising with architects, planners and landowners to facilitate future projects. Ian is an enthusiastic and customer focused team player. He is an Ecos trained independent assessor,  carrying out Home Assessments for Ecos Renew’s refurbishment service.