Future Homes Standard

'Not compliant with our climate change targets': Think tank warns many new homes will require costly retrofitting

Buildings

'Not compliant with our climate change targets': Think tank warns many new homes will require costly retrofitting

Bright Blue unveils series of policy recommendations for government to tackle both housing and climate crisis

clock 20 February 2023 • 4 min read
Government to explore how to clamp down on built environment emissions

Efficiency

Government to explore how to clamp down on built environment emissions

Government issues statement confirming it is to consider a series of recommendations from the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) on how to decarbonise built environment to meet net zero

clock 02 October 2022 • 4 min read
BRE to build out Future Homes plans with new 'net zero ready' pilot project

Buildings

BRE to build out Future Homes plans with new 'net zero ready' pilot project

Croudace Homes to deliver 10 new homes in Didcot that BRE will test against the government's forthcoming Future Homes Standard

clock 09 May 2022 • 2 min read
Future Homes Standard: Government backs plan to overhaul building Energy Performance Certificates

Buildings

Future Homes Standard: Government backs plan to overhaul building Energy Performance Certificates

Building Research Establishment and BEIS announce plans to develop a new methodology to better measure energy performance of UK homes

clock 02 May 2022 • 2 min read
'Clear, long-term, detailed': Nationwide leads host of firms in demand for UK home retrofit strategy

Policy

'Clear, long-term, detailed': Nationwide leads host of firms in demand for UK home retrofit strategy

EXCLUSIVE: Nationwide Building Society, British Gas, Rockwool and E.ON among cross-sector firms calling for detailed government policy to drive green home upgrades

clock 18 August 2021 • 5 min read

Energy

'No silver bullets': Kwasi Kwarteng asserts that both heat pumps and hydrogen boilers will help drive decarbonisation

Business Secretary tells MPs Heat and Buildings Strategy will arrive 'soon', as speculation continues to mount over how the government will look to slash domestic emissions

clock 21 July 2021 • 6 min read

Buildings

Taylor Wimpey pushed for weaker Future Homes Standard, Greenpeace investigation reveals

Documents obtained by green group's investigations unit reveals housebuilder told government its plan to slash emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2025 were 'too ambitious'

clock 05 July 2021 • 3 min read

Buildings

Future Buildings Standard: Building professionals and green NGOs slam 'significant shortcomings'

21 organisations call for new National Retrofit Strategy in letter to top civil servant at housing ministry, warning current standards lack 'vision and ambition’

clock 14 April 2021 • 3 min read

Buildings

Back on the road to net zero homes?

The government's plans for Building Regulations are a step in the right direction, but they must go further and not hold local authorities back, argues the UK Green Building Council's Philip Box

clock 03 February 2021 • 4 min read

Buildings

UK housebuilders to face 'zero carbon ready' standard from 2025

Government confirms Future Homes Standard will apply to any new homes built from 2025, delivering a major uptick in the pace of the shift away from gas boilers - but campaigners are left disappointed by failure to adopt more rapid timetable

clock 20 January 2021 • 6 min read