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Learn moreThe Future Homes Standard will be in place in 2025, mandating the transition to low carbon heating and future-proofing homes so they can become zero carbon.
The technology largely exists to enable this extraordinary transformation, but the knowledge, skills and practices required to deliver homes reliably and at volume, may not. With this in mind, this web-based toolkit, commissioned from Studio Partington, looks at key issues such as householder comfort, usability and resilience to climate change.
This NHBC research project will continue to develop over the coming months to identify the challenges and anticipate possible consequences, thinking particularly of the householders’ needs and the things that should be in place to allow the home to function efficiently and comfortably.
The technical standards we are aiming to achieve in new homes will set the UK in the forefront of global ambitions to achieve net zero. However, achieving net zero doesn’t guarantee that a home will be comfortable, well ventilated and delightful to use.
The themes of this work are, therefore, structured around wider issues such as comfort, usability and resilience to climate change.
We intend this project to become a forum for knowledge and a stimulus for thinking about the home in use and thinking about design for future occupiers. It will be a resource for designers, builders, suppliers and home managers, sign-posting other guides and learning. We would like it to prompt discussion, identify the scale of the challenge and, hopefully, be a reminder of lessons from the recent past.
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