This week we're joined by Nigel Banks, Technical Director - Zero Bills & Low Carbon Homes at Octopus Energy.

Nigel joined us to discuss his recent article: Fabric Fifth, a slightly polemical riposte to fabric-first dogma, and an interesting philosophy for retrofit. As it turned out, it’s an apposite follow-up to last week's episode with Fionn Stevenson.

Fabric Fifth - Nigel Banks

ASHPs ASAP
Get Smart
Measure & get comfy
Solar & Storage
Fabric Fifth

We also touch on Octopus's zero-bills proposition, but we'll do a full episode about that soon.

Notes from the show

Nigel on LinkedIn
The Fabric Fifth article itself
An article about Chris Warboys' SAP conversion tool
The academic paper Jeff mentions: UK Passivhaus and the energy performance gap
Nigel in the pages of Passive House Plus

**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**
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Episode 852: Lift your Drooping Hands (Hebrews 12:12-24)