Future Homes - Avoiding Unintended Consequences for NHBC Foundation is now live

Our latest guide ‘Future Homes - Avoiding Unintended Consequences’ (NF91) prepared by SP on behalf of NHBC Foundation is now live and available for viewing on the NHBC website. For more information please click here.

“The house-building industry will soon be delivering homes with very low energy bills and low carbon emissions. The 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.”

This web-based toolkit looks at the key issues such as householder comfort, usability and resilience climate change. Setting out three clear sections - heating, ventilation and design considerations and identifying the potential unintended consequences that may arise, and how they might be overcome.

This latest guidance aims to be a resource for designers, builders, suppliers and home managers, to prompt discussion, identify the scale of the challenge and be a reminder of lessons from the recent past. The resource will be regularly updated in response to regulation changes.